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The hardliners behind India Prime Minister Narendra Modi

An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.
13 October 2015, 06:37 AM

Reservations sans development

Leaders of different communities had so much confidence in the fairness of the country, when it won freedom, that none of them wanted reservations.
29 September 2015, 18:00 PM

Has Modi lost the plot?

Has India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost the plot?
5 August 2015, 14:58 PM

Hema Malini blames father of child killed in car accident

In tweets today, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini blames the child's father for not following traffic rules.
8 July 2015, 07:11 AM

Honour to Vajpayee great pride for India: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says it is a matter of great pride for India to receive BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s award for his contribution in Bangladesh’s Liberation War.
7 June 2015, 06:38 AM

Opinion: Why Bangladesh isn’t Pakistan

Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan was an ideological recast. Its differences with India aren't based on ideological premise that Hindus and Muslims are engaged in some form of permanent war.
7 June 2015, 03:57 AM

BJP ally threatens agitation against beef meat ban

After protests by farmers and beef traders, the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra of India now faces protests against the beef ban by an ally, RPI(A).
21 May 2015, 05:54 AM

BJP, RSS leaders discuss LBA with Bangladesh

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) brass met at the residence of party chief Amit Shah to discuss matters related to Assam, including the contentious Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.
5 May 2015, 06:15 AM

NGOs and agrarian crises

That the BJP is tilting towards the Hindu ideology is unfortunate, to say the least. But that does not mean those who are fighting against parochialism to underline the secular spirit of our constitution should be getting the wrong end of the stick.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM

When the dead speaks to you

THE suicide of Gajendra Singh last Wednesday at a political rally in New Delhi organised by Aam Aadmi Party casts a shadow over India's democracy and development.
29 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Children of democracy

RELIGIOUS sensitivity has deepened since the advent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime.
10 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Nehru govt spied on Subhas Chandra Bose's family for 20 years: Report

The Jawaharlal Nehru government had placed the family and relatives of Subhas Chandra Bose on surveillance for two decades.
10 April 2015, 09:39 AM

Smriti finds ‘peeping cam’ in clothing store

A case was registered against a Goa outlet of the popular clothing chain FabIndia Friday after Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said a CCTV camera was pointed towards the changing room she used.
4 April 2015, 06:09 AM

Murli Manohar Joshi flays Deepika's video

Titled "My Choice", the video has been released jointly by Deepika and director Homi Adajania as part of a campaign on women empowerment.
2 April 2015, 06:19 AM

A new RSS-BJP compact?

IT'S a sad comment on India's mainstream media that it didn't notice the irony of a representative of the Sangh Parivar—a current which inspired Mahatma Gandhi's assassination—being invited to the unveiling of his statue in London.
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Is AAP going Janata way?

WHEN movements convert themselves into political parties they lose their original shape.
12 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Shah Rukh Khan asked to pay Rs 1.93 lakh for ramp demolition

Shah Rukh Khan fined Rs 1.93 lakh to bear the cost of demolishing illegal ramp demolition outside his bungalow ‘Mannat’
11 March 2015, 12:40 PM

Towards emotional integration

POWER makes strange bedfellows. Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir government, has joined hands with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet his victory in the state assembly elections primarily has been on the plank that he will not allow the BJP to enter the valley. That he has gone back on the electoral promise is not any different from what leaders of other political parties do.
4 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Uproar over Mother Teresa Slur

There is an outrage in India over a Hindu leader's comment that Mother Teresa's charity work has one objective - to convert the poor to Christianity.
24 February 2015, 15:39 PM

After all it's a game

SUPPOSE India had lost the World Cup cricket match against Pakistan at Adelaide, the reaction among its people would have been that of disappointment and remorse. But I do not think that they would have initiated scuffles with the Pakistani spectators. The Indians would not have destroyed television sets as some did in Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan. Of course, there would have been a sense of humiliation, but it would not have poured on to the streets in the shape of fracas or demonstrations.
18 February 2015, 18:00 PM