Narendra Modi, a maestro of spin, described the passage of the contentious bills on agricultural ‘reform’ as a ‘watershed moment’. Perhaps the prime minister truly believes tha...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said new laws were a "watershed moment" in the history of Indian agriculture, asserting that they will ensure a complete transformation of the farm sector and em...

Timing is the key in politics. Sadly, members of India’s Opposition did not, for so long, believe in this wisdom. Seven chief ministers of states ruled by parties in the Opposition may have now ...

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren lamented that the resistance put up by the Opposition was very weak. He said: “We are unable to forcefully raise the issues. We saw how the migrant labour ...

Mamata Banerjee was the cynosure of a meeting conducted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday to discuss a bunch of issues as the Bengal chief minister led from the front an attack on the Na...

There are frequent deliberations on the possibility of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. There is a perception that voters tend to cast their votes in favour of the...

The Opposition, though outnumbered even in the Rajya Sabha, is planning to put up a bigger resistance to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill when it is brought to the House on Wednesday and is hopeful of...

The Supreme Court Monday asked 21 opposition leaders to file within a week their reply on the Election Commission's affidavit on their plea regarding Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips i...

Men of quality and stature, who evoke respect, elevate the status of that office. Others, bereft of these qualities, diminish the status of that office. In a parliamentary democracy, the prime ministe...

BJP’s tally is up from three in 2015 to eight now in the 70-member Delhi Assembly.In 2015, the Speaker had offered the Leader of Opposition post — a cabinet rank position for which the largest Opp...