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Aakar Patel | How The Ayodhya Frenzy By Advani Transformed India, Put BJP In Power

Aakar Patel | How The Ayodhya Frenzy By Advani Transformed India, Put...

In February 1989, at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, the VHP said it would lay the foundation stone for the temple in...

9 Dec 2025 12:24 AM IST

Aakar Patel | In 1991, China Was At The Same Level As India. Now, Why It’s Five Times Ahead…

Aakar Patel | In 1991, China Was At The Same Level As India. Now, Why...

On the cusp of liberalisation, whose date we mark as July 24, 1991 (when finance minister Manmohan Singh presented his...

13 Oct 2025 9:40 PM IST

Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died at 93 on Thursday. (Photo: File | PTI)

Sanjayovacha | Emigration Policy Evolving From Welfare To Facilitation...

For a decade, the ministry stood on its own feet and focused on two tasks: connecting with overseas Indians and securing...

13 Oct 2025 9:25 PM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Socialist, Secular… or Not? Tussles over Constitution

Shikha Mukerjee | Socialist, Secular… or Not? Tussles...

The mission to “save the Constitution in its original form” launched after RSS general secretary Dattatreya...

1 July 2025 12:03 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Khamenei has no links with India; but Khomeini did, with Barabanki…

Saeed Naqvi | Khamenei has no links with India; but Khomeini did, with...

An implausible story is doing the social media rounds, which has its origins in an extraordinary initiative then...

28 Jun 2025 9:21 PM IST

Atal Behari Vajpayee

Atal Behari Vajpayee's name struck off voter list in Lucknow

Vajpayee's name was registered as a voter from the Babu Banarsi Das ward in Lucknow and had last voted in 2004 during...

29 Sept 2017 3:14 AM IST

Finance mInister Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley hits at ex-FM Yashwant Sinha, calls him 80-yr-old job...

In a newspaper article that appeared on Wednesday, Sinha blamed Jaitley for making a mess of the economy.

29 Sept 2017 2:34 AM IST

Art Speaks began with lamp lighting by Manipuri exponent guru Padmashree Darshana Jhaveri, Doordarshan assistant director Shailesh Shrivastav, social-cultural activist Prakash Paddikal, advocate poet Chitra Desai and Bharatanatyam exponent Deepak Majumdar.

On the dance floor with memories of Atal Behari Vajpayee

Art Speaks' was dedicated to the flood victims of Kerala along with a tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Behari...

29 Nov 2018 12:59 AM IST

Atal Behari Vajpayee

Lucknow zoo to be named after Vajpayee

A formal announcement is expected to be made on Vajpayee's birth anniversary on December 25.

14 Nov 2018 12:20 AM IST

On Wednesday, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha witnessed pandemonium; opposition members in the Upper House shouted shame, shame when Ananth Kumar Hegde, rose to lay the papers listed against his name. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

In politics, caste still a dominant factor

Smart publicists were rewarded handsomely for giving the BJP a worldly gloss.

2 Jan 2018 12:31 AM IST

Ideologues (eg, Marxist historians) are free, like anyone else, to write their own version of history. The problem arises when the state seeks to promote its version of history by imposing it through textbooks and state-supported publishing houses. (Photos: AP/ PTI/ ANI)

History should not be abused by politicians

The danger is far greater when the state has a hand in the writing of history.

7 Oct 2019 4:54 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah at a function organised on the birth anniversary of Atal Behari Vajpayee in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

PM, President pay tributes to Atal on birth anniversary

A prayer meeting was held at Vajpayee's memorial Sadaiv Atal to mark his 95th birth anniversary.

26 Dec 2019 5:43 AM IST