Governments are not benign, and the use of the law and regulatory agencies against inconvenient voices is not new. Although it has become a reflex action for journalists to invoke a comparison with th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has resorted to a familiar diversionary tactic of blaming the UPA regime for the dramatic flare up in petrol and diesel prices — cresting above Rs 100 a litre in sev...

The Bengal government has cancelled its authorization of the Common Service Centres (Tathya Mitra Kendras) that rendered online services to citizens against the realization of user charges. Instead, i...

Congress leaders on Saturday continued their unseemly bickering over the party’s own legacy, exposing the absence of deft political management that could have doused the embers. “The BJP ...

The Congress and other parties of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) are set to move a censure motion in the Lok Sabha against BJP MP Pragya Thakur for her remarks on Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nath...

The Centre has named nine central agencies and Delhi police as those authorised to intercept, monitor and decrypt information transmitted by or stored in any computer, raising the spectre of an Orwell...

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday chose to launch an emotional offensive in the Lok Sabha to counter Rahul Gandhi’s Rafale attack, accusing the Gandhi “khandan” (dynasty) of “insul...

The president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has started to ratchet up pressure on India to roll back the tariffs that India imposed on 28 American products in retaliation against Wash...

British middleman Christian Michel, extradited from Dubai on Tuesday night in connection with the AgustaWestland chopper scandal, is being served English breakfast and food of his choice while being i...

Some years back, on a December afternoon, crowds of young people had spilled onto the streets of Delhi to protest the gang rape and murder of a girl — an incident that led to enough outrage for the ...