Mohammed Salim has just returned from Raiganj, his constituency, 400 kilometres north of Calcutta. He is in the city to attend a wedding reception and take care of some official work. The very next da...

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday hailed the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act as 'historic' in his address to joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, prompting protests by some Opposition...

Preparations for holding the monsoon session of Parliament with coronavirus-induced norms like social distancing and exploring 'virtual Parliament' as on option in the long run were discussed by Rajya...

Home minister Amit Shah’s recent statement praising Hindu Rashtra proponent Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for being the first to describe the 1857 revolt as India’s first war of independence appears co...

The election season may have broken out in a rash of name changes involving cities and districts, but the high courts of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras may have to wait a while yet.A bill that sought to ...

Sir — The state government had said in June that it will do away with the ‘commission system’ of earning for bus drivers and conductors. The ‘commission system’ — under which bus workers e...

The BJP has seized on Mulayam Singh Yadav’s lavish praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament, hoping that the Samajwadi Party patriarch’s comments on Wednesday would confuse voters lea...

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Indian politicians seem to fervently believe that all work and no play will make them dull — so much so that they opt almost entirely out of doing their jobs. This aversion to work became clearer wh...

The BJP is working on a fresh propaganda blitz to take on the Opposition campaign against the amended citizenship act, betraying signs of concern at the widening protests against the contentious law.B...