Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) slammed its leader and Union steel minister R.C.P. Singh and the BJP on Saturday for the alliance imbroglio that forced it to go solo in the...

Footnote It seems that the Karnataka food and civil supplies minister, Umesh Katti, considers the words of Narendra Modi as final. Seen without a mask at a public event, Katti attributed his decision...

Selfish move Sir — Even a small thoughtless step can have far-reaching consequences. At a time when several companies have condemned the alleged subjugation and genocide of Uighur Muslim in Xin...

How do political campaigns capture the popular imagination? One common feature of successful political campaigns is that they are all imbued with the palpable quality of being timely. The issues of th...

With assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and some other states round the corner, the players are warming up for the imminent contest. Caste and religion are cards that are being played in UP: the Cong...

Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra should be immediately sacked if there is any morality left in the BJP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Wednesday. "The BJP cannot save i...

Unsafe practice Sir — The adage, prevention is better than cure, may be ancient, but it remains just as relevant in the 21st century. A recent report has found that the most commonly used passw...

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday appealed to the women of Uttar Pradesh to unite and create their “own space” in the Assembly elections next year through indep...

The report of the States Reorganization Commission, submitted to the Government of India in September 1955, is remembered above all for recommending that provincial boundaries be redrawn on linguistic...

If more women contest the elections, it does not mean that they will all become legislators. But to go by the All India Congress Committee general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, women’s polit...