Like ‘semi-final’ election, the term ‘wake-up call’ is much overused in Indian political discourse. Last Tuesday, as the painfully slow counting process yielded the outcome of the five assembl...

August 4. Something sinister seems to be brewing in New Delhi. The air has been rife with fearful speculation for days, and social media updates reflect widespread anxiety. “Whatever is coming, let'...

The Narendra Modi government has reacted with characteristic petulance after Moody’s Investor Services said that it was trimming its outlook on India’s sovereign rating to negative from stable whi...

The Narendra Modi government remained tight-lipped on the private visit of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to Srinagar or who authorised Madi Sharma, the self-professed “international busi...

Flying into some cities you are afraid of the taxi-sharks that await you at the airport, in other cities it’s the cut-throats who will steal your luggage or rob you at gunpoint on the highway into t...

The Congress believes that the claims about significant disengagement on the border by Chinese troops are untrue and feels the government should not create a false complacency that could further embol...

Two letters from opposing ends have created a debate and raised larger issues. They have survived in a way few letters to the editor do; most disappear after the usual hiccup. The first was the one tr...

The clamour for bold economic reforms has just got louder at a time when a stream of dismal data points is forcing the Narendra Modi government to confront the stark reality of a slowdown.On Monday, f...

The convenience of buying petrol and diesel along with groceries at shopping malls is just a regulation away. The Narendra Modi-government is planning to relax fuel retailing norms that will allow the...

Bengal finance and industry minister Amit Mitra on Saturday reeled off numbers to explain how the economy had been faltering and held the Narendra Modi government responsible, doing so amid fears of a...