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Prime Minister Narendra Modi

When coalition maths goes far off the mark

The ostensible Hindu vote of the BJP is the BJP's eternally.

12 Oct 2018 1:59 AM IST

The argument put forward by the leaders of the BJP and others was that India did not depend on exports for its economic growth, and that the huge domestic market and the consumption it entailed was good enough to keep the economy in shape and the global developments were marginal. (Representational image)

India's ostrich club and the global recession

The moral of the market economy is that small disasters trigger bigger ones, potentially.

3 Oct 2018 1:31 AM IST

Further, the Aadhaar law introduced in Parliament as a money bill is a fraud on the Constitution.

Govt bid to extend data dragnet clipped, partly

The Supreme Court judgments should not be viewed as a closure of the national debate over Aadhaar.

28 Sept 2018 12:34 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat speaks at an event, titled Future of Bharat: An RSS perspective , at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

RSS 'muscle-flexing' a bid to re-invent itself?

The RSS seems to be learning from the experience of the BJP that you cannot survive in politics by catering only to...

22 Sept 2018 1:30 AM IST

LGBTQ community members celebrate after the Supreme Court verdict which decriminalises consensual gay sex, in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

SC makes history, but 'gay' prejudices linger

The LGBT community would want to rightly press on with the logical implications, leading to issues of gay marriage,...

7 Sept 2018 7:03 AM IST

Union Minister Arun Jaitley said that Congress had no real issue and was hence resorting to manufacturing. (Photo: File)

DeMo-GST jolt: How the economy survived

On the demonetisation front, the RBI had to execute remonetisation and put money back into circulation.

1 Sept 2018 12:04 AM IST

A file photograph of Atal Behari Vajpayee at the PMO.

A 'liberal' pragmatist & last of the Nehruvians

Vajpayee said if he were to criticise a person the way he criticised Nehru, that person would stop talking to him.

17 Aug 2018 1:12 AM IST

We live in many Indias: A reality check will help

Pakistan is trying to move away from the toxic notion of a Muslim Pakistan.

15 Aug 2018 1:27 AM IST

Article 35A should be even less intimidating than Article 370 because it is a mere question of domicile, which is a technical and tricky issue in Himachal as well as in Telangana, Nagaland as well as in Maharashtra.

Article 35A is on domicile: What's the fuss about?

he hope of political right-wingers that Article 370 or Article 35A would be declared unconstitutional is also an...

8 Aug 2018 12:26 AM IST

The Congress is likely to give as many as 30 seats to the BSP in MP as Congress state president Kamal Nath was finalising the deal with top BSP leaders.

Why dalit vote is vital for both Congress and BSP

The simple fact is that the BSP is not yet a pan-Indian dalit party.

30 July 2018 12:08 AM IST

Yelburga, Tarikere and Harapanahalli are among other states that indicate emerging trends and here too the BJP is ahead. (Representational Image)

How BJP & Congress play politics over Muslims

The Congress is seen as a pro-Muslim party and the BJP as an anti-Muslim one.

17 July 2018 5:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI/File)

Tall talk, zero action on buying guns, warplanes

In this one-man government, Prime Minister Modi is the one who takes all the decisions.

11 July 2018 2:47 AM IST