If Indira Gandhi hadn't targeted the RSS, Narendra Modi wouldn't be sitting pretty with his second majority and looking at a third, asserts Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Narendra Modi at the foundation......
It sent shock waves in the party -- a political greenhorn had taken on Modi in his home turf of Gujarat.Smriti had clearly tried to choose sides, in this case Vajpayee's camp.Many felt that this......
The Delhi high court on Friday sought a response from the Centre, Election Commission of India, and 26 political parties on a petition seeking to restrain opposition parties from using the acronym......
The two main factions in Karnataka's Congress party -- one led by Siddaramaiah and the other by D K Shivakumar -- are both contenders for the chief ministership.Both groups have fought hard to get......
The BJP at 43 is a work in progress, with total ideological continuity and much substantive change in political method and style, observes Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party Supremo......
An exclusive excerpt from Girish Kuber's The Tatas: How A Family Built A Business And A Nation. IMAGE: J R D Tata, left, with Ratan Tata. Photograph: Kind courtesy Gopal Shetty When you took......
The bench also said there was merit in ED's contention that while the "driving force behind the companies" (Modi) was not submitting to the agency's jurisdiction, his companies cannot be given any......
Codgers on holiday in rising India! Growing foreign travel is one sign of the radical change in rising India’s vacation dynamic. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com. As scorching......
One way to end cronyism in the allocation of natural resources is to move to transparent auctions, like it has happened in spectrum. In his 2012 book, Breakout Nations, Ruchir Sharma said that any......
The global financial sector is in turmoil, the Indian markets are volatile. Rupee is going down against the dollar.The investors are at a loss, they are groping for a solution.At this juncture, is......
'Sushma Swarajji confessed that almost the whole Parliament had tried to dissuade her from coming on the show, but her daughter insisted Movers & Shakers was the best show in the country so she......
'Personal reasons required me to take some time off.' IMAGE: Fardeen Khan in Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar "When you've been away for so long, you have all these fears and insecurities of whether......
Twenty-four-year-old Sushant Divgikar is the latest contestant to be evicted from the reality show Bigg Boss season 8. Five housemates were nominated for eviction by then captain Upen Patel.......
Bachelorette India: Mere Khayalon Ki Mallika, as bad as it is, doesn’t stand to score even on the counts of being unintentionally funny because it reeks of desperation, feels Nishi Tiwari.......
Ratan Rajput chose her life partner on national television in the reality show Ratan Ka Rishta recently. The television actress got engaged to Abhinav Sharma on the show, but decided to tie the......
The Sports Ministry has granted recognition to the All India Tennis Association (AITA) almost a year after the tennis body's renewal as a National Sports Federation (NSF) was put on hold due to......
To ensure that the National Sports Federations (NSFs) elect office bearers as per the Sports Code only, the government has hardened its stance and latest to fall in line is All India Tennis......
An MP's is a full-time job, so is the BCCI president's.How can Anurag Thakur do justice to both, asks Sudhir Bisht. Let me begin by saying that I don't grudge the upward journey in politics and in......
Mir Abdul Hanan and Mudasir Mehraj, two budding footballers from Kashmir are all set to fly to Spain to polish their skills in soccer. This was announced by J&K chief Omar......