H.N. Ananth Kumar rose through the ranks in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee era, was considered close to L.K. Advani and held his own in the Narendra Modi dispensation. The Union parliamentary affairs minist...

Yashwant Sinha, a former BJP leader and finance and external affairs minister under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government, said India was under an undeclared state of emergency under Prime Minis...

The Congress has emphasised that the UPA government had shelved a pilot project on citizenship determination that the Atal Bihari Vajpayee administration had christened the “National Population Regi...

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday renamed a cricket stadium and opened the partially completed structure hours before the scheduled start of a T20 international, the hurried inauguration leavi...

BJP president and home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday moved into the 6A Krishna Menon Marg bungalow in Lutyens Delhi, which had been the official residence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee...

***Can Jammu and Kashmir recover from this low? Can a new peace process rise from the old one’s ashes?The lessons we learn from Jammu and Kashmir’s history are several. The past fifteen years thre...

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she felt “very, very bad” and “sad” that BJP patriarch L.K. Advani had been denied a Lok Sabha ticket and it was an “insult” to replac...

As minister for Jammu and Kashmir affairs briefly in the V.P. Singh government, George Fernandes flew to Srinagar and vanished. The Valley was smouldering in the grip of a violent insurgency at the ti...

Writer Gita Mehta has politely declined the Padma Shri awarded to her in an election year, saying its timing could be “misconstrued”.“I am deeply honoured that the government of India should thi...

Congress workers across the country are rapturous over Priyanka Gandhi’s formal entry into politics, with everybody appearing to expect a “decisive impact” on the general election, followed by a...