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Elections are being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eights constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi and four in Jharkhand. (Photo: twitter/ANI)

Assess, rectify, reflect on how far we strayed

The defeated leaders will not be short of advice, particularly from the media on what went wrong and what they should...

26 May 2019 6:51 AM IST

Bhupender Yadav (Photo: Bunny Smith)

We don't believe in vote-bank politics but in the people's politics'

There are still some parties who are based on dynasty politics and play caste-based and vote-bank politics, says...

26 May 2019 5:47 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party workers welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Erroneous to believe Hindutva will end caste

The mahagathbandhan was formed to stop the Modi juggernaut in the country's largest state.

26 May 2019 12:12 AM IST

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

Dilli Ka Babu: Business as usual

Out of 13 shortlisted candidates, four have reportedly expressed unwillingness for the coveted positions, leaving only...

26 May 2019 12:12 AM IST

The MEAs comments came a day after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he will not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terror. (Photo:AP)

China gets a dose of Pakistani terror industry

The authorities have tried to play down the incident with very scant details emanating in terms of the destruction and...

26 May 2019 12:09 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

UK needs a leader

The EU began as a much simpler common market and evolved to ease the movement of people also across frontiers.

26 May 2019 12:05 AM IST

More Indian children are in school today than ever before, but the quality of public schools has sunk to abysmally low levels, as government schools have become the reserve of children at the very bottom of Indias social ladder.

Schools need a new curriculum to fight bigotry

The protests outside Anderton Park school in Birmingham, in which the head teacher refuses to censor the curriculum,...

25 May 2019 7:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Representional Image)

A clear vote for nationalism', and signalling an end to caste...

The BJP won 303 seats and polled 36 per cent votes, improved upon its performance of 2014.

25 May 2019 6:57 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Wednesday. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

Time for rise of Modi the statesman

It invariably has diminishing returns, the subject targeted compensating by realigning with powers opposed to India.

25 May 2019 12:13 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi during press conferences in their respective party headquarters. (Photo: AP)

Tectonic shift towards a very different India

Rahul Gandhi and the OBC parties offered the protection and continuation of an evolving liberal vision.

25 May 2019 12:03 AM IST

BJP workers welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

After huge 2nd mandate, Modi mantra should be raj dharma'

It's now apparent that the disenchantment with the Modi government on these issues was exaggerated.

25 May 2019 12:03 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party workers welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Piquant Dravidian results

The DMK victory may come with the chastening thought that there is no power yet to be had in the state, nor a share of...

25 May 2019 12:00 AM IST