Opinion

Manjhi, in fact, had already held negotiations with Jan Adhikar Party leader Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav to float a third front against the mahagathbandhan and the NDA.

Moosa Raza — the IAS who served as Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir — highlights in his new book how Nehru, moved by idealism, had agreed for a joint communique to reiterate the commitment to plebiscite.

A World Health Organisation report says that at least 2 billion people worldwide are forced to use contaminated sources for drinking water and all of them are at high risk of contracting water-related diseases.

Feroze Gandhi, a devoted parent, constructed toys for his sons Rajiv and Sanjay, and encouraged them to find out for themselves how machines worked and how to take things apart and arrange them back. He wanted both Rajiv and Sanjay to become engineers.

The unravelling of India’s famed automobile industry should send shockwaves across policy makers as the sector accounts for almost half the manufacturing GDP of India.

Rajiv Gandhi desisted from politics, yet his brother Sanjay's death in an air crash forced his hand. In 1984, Sonia reportedly fought like a tigress to oppose Rajiv's decision to become the Prime Minister even as Indira's dead body, riddled with umpteen b...

The draft NRC was published on July 30, 2018, which included names of about 2.9 crore people out of the 3.2 crore applicants. The final list will be published on August 31 after all objections and claims of excluded applicants are resolved.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s style of functioning is the same and he is relentlessly optimistic both on his party's future and India's.

Sheila Dikshit’s only remorse from her long tenure was that the successful organisation of the 2010 Commonwealth Games did not get its due recognition.

The government has managed to control some damage, but Kerala watchers warn that these incidents are symptoms of a deep malaise -- leadership crisis, corruption, turf wars and party losing the ideological war against BJP.

From taking on the Congress government in 1989 to silencing the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in 2001, actress-activist Shabana Azmi’s politics has been issue-based, not party-based.

One of the few things business could be happy about is the reduction in the tax rate to 25 per cent for companies with annual turnover up to Rs 400 crore.

Union Budget 2019 is expected to highlight the government’s intent on reviving growth. However, failure to urgently act on air pollution can derail these efforts by jeopardising public health, agricultural productivity, and sustainable development.

The late BKS Iyengar had claimed in a 2005 book that an ailing Pope Paul VI had even invited him to the Vatican for yoga lessons, but the pre-condition to keep the visit a secret proved to be a deal-breaker.

Narendra Modi took over the reins in 2014 after riding a wave of popular sentiment drawn from a perception of him being a man of action, a decisive task-master, the no-nonsense kind who believed that the nation comes first.

During the next fortnight, India has three vital clashes coming up, including the mouth-watering India Pakistan derby, and the players need to be wary of these opponents.