Modi won. The voter lost

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Congress won three (states) but lost two because the BJP has fulfilled LK Advani’s prophecy that it is Congress Part 2 By Ranjona Banerji Who...

Can Tharoor be a PM alternative for Congress?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An online petition on these lines might have set the cat among the Congress coterie mice ~By Meha Mathur[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The election results for the Uttar Pradesh and...

How Congress in Goa snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Though they got 17 seats and was the single largest party, the BJP which secured only 13 had by Sunday sewn up deals with the Maharashtrawadi...

Lucknow encounter alarm bell for Indian agencies

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Government and populace must sit up and take note of growing radicalisation of youth The recent encounter between the police and suspected Islamic State (IS) terrorists...

Proven guilty by the bar?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I am convinced you have lost your mind, writes senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani to CS Karnan, sitting High Court justice By Sujit Bhar The Justice CS...

Shahjahanpur’s Joota Maar Holi

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Once Nawabsahib ka juloos, Lordsahab ka juloos has a man playing angrez as its centerpiece who is then roughed up by revellers By Shiv Gopal Tiwari,...

Amarinder Singh leads Congress to power after a decade

BJP crosses 300 in UP; Congress grabs Punjab

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The BJP wave grew into a tsunami and threw all calculations awry. Once considered a small challenger, the saffron party emerged the biggest victor on March...

Modi mirage works wonders

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Janta sold on the promise of a better life as packaged and promoted by PM By Sujit Bhar Was the media disoriented while reporting about the...

Sometimes, misinformation works better than facts: Akhilesh

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Perhaps, the people did not appreciate the expressways, says UP CM A despondent UP chief minister Akhilesh Singh Yadav held a press conference around 5pm on...