The Narendra Modi government’s preference for a “presidential” system has found reflection in a concept note for the museum of Prime Ministers that is scheduled to come up on the sprawling Teen ...

The return of Narendra Modi, a former pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as prime minister for the second term, and the tremendous majority that the Bharatiya Janata Party has garnere...

BJP president Amit Shah shifted the focus of his attack from the “failures of the Congress in the last 70 years” to the flaws of “the last 30 years of coalition rule” as the BJP launched its m...

Outgoing chief minister Raghubar Das on Wednesday said that he would serve the BJP as an ordinary party worker.Das has been facing attacks within the party and from outside that his “arrogance” an...

In 1986, Zoramthanga walked back from Chhimtalang, the then central headquarters of the outlawed Mizo National Front (MNF) deep inside Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts, with hundreds of MNF fight...

She was hailed a giant-killer five years ago, when in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections Sushmita Dev defeated Kabindra Purkayastha, a BJP stalwart in the Northeast and a minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpaye...

The large-scale mocking on Twitter notwithstanding, the Union defence minister, Rajnath Singh, is reported to be very happy over the wide publicity that his move to perform “shastra pujan” (weapon...

Sonia Gandhi, who had resurrected the Congress after successive defeats and sewn up a grand coalition to oust the extremely popular Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004, now faces another stiff challenge.She ...

Sonia Gandhi on Thursday reminded reporters that a leader’s aura of invincibility don’t always translate into victory on the ground, citing the example of 2004 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee bowed out ...

Sir — The fact that one of the founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its second party president, Lal Krishna Advani, has resumed speaking up through his blog comes as a relief to many (“Margd...