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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

BJP stooped to conquer, Congress must not follow it

The Congress was accused of concentrating too much on caste and community but not, it must be stressed, of fanning...

19 Dec 2017 12:58 AM IST

The state government is also forcing employees to take VRS if they do not wish to be shown the door on grounds of poor performance.

Clean-up in UP

The state government is also forcing employees to take VRS if they do not wish to be shown the door on grounds of poor...

18 Dec 2017 1:49 AM IST

India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)

India, China can neither give, nor take

The two countries have been engaged in frequent talks at various levels since 1981.

18 Dec 2017 1:47 AM IST

The Centre is keen to get the transgenders bill, which has already been introduced in Lok Sabha, passed in this session. (Photo: PTI)

Delay in session shows why poll reforms vital

Parliamentary sessions will be inevitably delayed unless reforms in both the electoral schedule and the Lok Sabha are...

18 Dec 2017 1:46 AM IST

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif. (Photo: AFP)

A lifeline for Nawaz?

An election without Imran is untenable and to rescue Imran, Nawaz would also have to be ushered back into the electoral...

18 Dec 2017 1:45 AM IST

US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. (Photo: AP)

A big blow to Trump

Democratic candidate Doug Jones' victory will reduce the Republican majority in the US Senate to 51-47 (with two...

18 Dec 2017 1:44 AM IST

Newly-elected Congress president Rahul Gandhi greets his mother and predecessor Sonia Gandhi after her speech at the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Rahul now needs to take a broader view

The Congress is sitting in the Opposition, and has never been as disadvantageously placed as now in all the years since...

18 Dec 2017 1:43 AM IST

Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala (Photo: PTI/File)

EC's silence reflects it has become a puppet of the whims of the BJP'

We had an agenda, a programme in mind for the future of Gujarat and its people, says Randeep Singh Surjewala.

17 Dec 2017 12:12 AM IST

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah (Photo: AP)

Dilli Ka Babu: Women officers to the fore

Sources say that with Karnataka Assembly elections approaching, the government did not want to ruffle feathers in the...

17 Dec 2017 12:12 AM IST

Congress president Sonia Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Sonia: A woman who transformed Cong

If the Congress had a chance to become a non-dynastic party, this was the time when its senior leadership could have...

17 Dec 2017 12:12 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. (Photo: File)

For the RSS, culture' means Hindu culture

As with Hitler's Mein Kampf, the writings of the RSS' chiefs and ideological mentors have been neglected.

17 Dec 2017 12:11 AM IST

Sonia Gandhi will on Saturday formally hand over the reigns of the Congress to son Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Of worried Cong leaders & pragmatic corporates

Sonia will remain a member of the Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision-making body.

17 Dec 2017 12:06 AM IST