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An unidentified person has issued a death threat to Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, police said on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Dogmatic CPM gropes in dark

Marxism has become obsolete and it is not equipped to change the 21st century world despite capitalism and globalisation...

11 March 2018 12:48 AM IST

BJP president Amit Shah gets rousing welcomed by party workers outside the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

BJP's image tweak in N-E took it to victory

In Nagaland, the BJP is heading towards a coalition government with the newly-formed Nationalist Democratic People's...

4 March 2018 1:49 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

Yogi's tough stance on UP crime has pitfalls

It's futile to blame Yogi Adityanath, Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati for the uphill task that UP faces.

21 Feb 2018 3:06 AM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, on Thursday, tabled the Union Budget 2018 in the Parliament.

A tame exercise: Has govt run out of steam?

The Make in India, Start-Up India, Digital India and Skill India programmes seem to have fallen by the wayside.

2 Feb 2018 4:51 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent on Thursday to the ordinance to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. (Photo: PTI)

Heed Prez's clarion call to respect differences'

President Kovind's emphasis on respecting differences should be taken as a gentle warning against any sense of...

29 Jan 2018 12:12 AM IST

Sitaram Yechury

CPM needs big rethink, not just about Congress

The two big national parties are actually more like Stalinists when it comes to inner-party deliberations.

23 Jan 2018 1:44 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: Asian Age)

SC revolt: Let judges sort it out, not netas

The sin of CJI Misra is his failure to play it fair. He has been seen as being partial, excluding those who did not...

15 Jan 2018 12:24 AM IST

A few thousand followers of 20 social organisations across Maharashtra will gather at Shaniwar Wada, Pune, on January 31, 2018, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of defeat of the Peshwas army by the then British Indian Armys Mahar regiment in the battle of Bhima Koregaon. (Photo: YouTube)

Caste factor resurfaces, but has limitations too

The Peshwas were not a major power at the beginning of the 19th century. Their glory ended with the Third Battle of...

9 Jan 2018 12:36 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St.Petersburg. (Photo: AP)

The real battle has just begun for Modi

Modi and Jaitley continue to doggedly defend the non-existent virtues of the measure.

1 Jan 2018 2:18 AM IST

Former communications minister A. Raja and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi (Photo: PTI/File)

Raging against graft not enough to end it

Is corruption a larger issue than settling of political scores between rivals?

25 Dec 2017 2:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah with Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar at a felicitation function in New Delhi on Monday, after the partys win in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. (Photo: PTI)

Gujarat is Modi's win, caste bombs for Cong

The BJP cannot hope to be complacent with its victory, and Congress need not be despondent.

19 Dec 2017 1:02 AM IST

Mani Shankar Aiyar

BJP & Pak: A dinner and its political fallout

The government's snoopers could not have known the details of what was talked about at the party.

13 Dec 2017 1:58 AM IST