During the Emergency Indira Gandhi acquired absolute power. Lakhs of political opponents, students, activists were arrested. IMAGE: Indira Gandhi with her younger son Sanjay Gandhi. Photograph:......
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, was the third American leader to visit India during which a village in Haryana was named Carterpuri in his honour. President Carter died on......
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president and the third American leader to visit India during which a village in Haryana was named Carterpuri in his honour, has died peacefully at his home in Plains,......
What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister......
Former Union minister Sharad Pawar on Monday said that he and nephew Ajit Pawar are together as a family, but made it clear that the latter was heading a different political party. IMAGE: File......
Perhaps because the Modi government had some differences of opinion with two of the economist governors (one of whom was appointed by the Manmohan Singh government), there is a view that its......
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented the Budget for 2024-25, her 7th straight presentation surpassing the record of former prime minister Morarji Desai. Illustration: Dominic......
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to create history when she presents her seventh straight Budget on Tuesday for the fiscal 2024-25, surpassing the record of former prime minister Morarji......
The finance minister continues to be backed by the same policy team in charting out the broad strategy as in the few earlier Budgets. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman distributes halwa......
Ensuring that government capex crowds in private investment will be one of her challenges. IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office to Nirmala Sitharaman as a Cabinet......
Kangana Ranaut's decline as an actor feels complete, observes Utkarsh Mishra. What would you, my fellow Indian, envision if I asked you to imagine a dramatic depiction of the sequence when Prime......
As with biopics these days, Kangana Ranaut's films may be less about telling the story of a dark chapter of Indian history and more about giving fodder to those who seek to defend or justify......
'The censor board asked me for some strange cuts.''Otherwise, they would have given me an 'A' certificate.''One cut was where Girish Karnad was explaining artificial insemination in cattle.''These......
If you want to make your enemy look like a threat, at least make them formidable, sighs Sukanya Verma. We've watched no love lost between India and Pakistan's diplomatic equation through......
'... their love was jinxed.''His celluloid path to his partner's heart was seldom smooth; it had to contend with greedy relatives and indecisive sweethearts, who were more ready to sacrifice than......
IMAGE: K L Rahul at the roce ceremony of David Mathias and Kalyani Desai. Photographs and Video: Kind courtesy KL Rahul/Instagram Having got a few days break at the end of IPL 2022, K L......