33 first-timers among Modi's council of ministers

Thirty-three first-timers have found place in the third Modi government sworn in on Sunday and at least six of them hail from well-known political families. IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu and......

Modi 3.0: Will It Be An Easy Ride?

Modi has proven to be a past master in the art of political survival.This means that learning to navigate the choppy waters of coalition government will be an art he will not take long to master,......

Will TDP, JD-U Toe BJP Line On Hindutva?

The TDP and JD-U will have a lot to answer inside Parliament, day after day, session after session, notes N Sathiya Moorthy, notes N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader......

Did Nitish Kumar Get Scared Of 'Modi Magic'?

In switching over, Nitish has sent out a message that if he could not now become the NDA's PM, then he would need to stay on as CM at the very least, which a third term for Modi would not let him......

'In India, those who don't vote are happy people'

In the wake of Thomas L Friedman's The World is Flat, and Shashi Tharoor's The Elephant, The Tiger, and The Cell Phone comes Rafiq Dossani's book India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse is......

Conflict zone: Expert panels versus govt

The traditional view on expert committees on important economic policy matters is that they are desirable and serve a very useful purpose in a democratic system. These committees with their reports......

Congress Left high and Dry

When asked about his government's record on reforms, Mr Chidambaram, somewhat innocently but perhaps disingenuously, asks, "If reforms have slowed down, how are we registering high growth?"......

Montek roots for agriculture reform

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former finance secretary and currently director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund, is bashful about speaking to the press amid......

PIX: Jaya Prada pays her last respects to Dasari

Telugu filmmaker and former Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao passed away in Hyderabad on Tuesday, May 30. The who's who of the Telugu film industry made sure to attend his prayer......

Review: Dhenikaina Ready is fun

Vishnu Manchu comes back after a short hiatus with Dhenikaina Ready, a fun Telugu film packaged with all the entertaining staples for a family outing, says Radhika Rajamani While the basic theme is......

First Look: Allu Arjun's Badrinath

Directed by VV Vinayak and produced by father Allu Aravind under their home banner Geetha Arts, Allu Arjun's next magnum opus is the Telugu film Badrinath. The actor will be paired opposite......

Looking at Balayya's Simha

After acting in a period devotional film Pandurangadu, Nandamuri Balakrishna (Balayya)'s big-budget commercial Telugu film Simha, produced by Parachuri Kiriti (under United movies banner) and......