The president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and now the Union home minister, Amit Shah, has chosen the bungalow of the late former prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as his new official residence, ...

A joke doing the rounds this election season is that Narendra Modi set out to rid India of the Congress — or, in his oft-repeated words, ensure a “Congress-mukt Bharat.” He has managed to make i...

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Allahabad became Prayagraj last week, in time for the Kumbh mela at the confluence (prayag) of the Yamuna, Ganga and mythical Saraswati, starting a week from now. In this season of ‘naming’, the C...

The Congress has stepped forward to defend “India’s PM” after US President Donald Trump mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not doing enough in Afghanistan and the external affairs ministry ...

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday raised the issue of withdrawal of SPG security cover to the Gandhi family, but the government said he cannot raise the matter in Zero Hour as he had n...

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I think the first Indian Foreign Service officer to quit the service was Manohar Lal Sondhi of the 1956 batch, if memory serves right. There had been an earlier pull out – an officer with a Bengali ...

The Samajwadi Party is considering fielding Shatrughan Sinha’s wife Poonam from the Lucknow seat, party sources said on Sunday, but explained that the proposed move could be a way of helping the BJP...

Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti hit Srinagar’s streets with her supporters on Saturday against the Centre’s ban on the separatist Jamaat-e-Islami, with which her party is alleged to have had ...