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Why did the 125-year-old Congress party get decimated to 44 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 parliamentary elections? It did not happen in...

ByRenu Mittal and Shubhabrata BhattacharyaApril 11, 2017

PANDIT Dwarka Prasad Mishra, a two-term Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, who emerged as an effective power centre in New Delhi in the...

ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaApril 11, 2017

AS the dust settled, the fringe became the centre in Uttar Pradesh. Away from the duelling father and son, cleansed from the parties...

ByDiptendra RaychaudhuriApril 11, 2017

THIS is an odd time to spring to the defence of Rahul Gandhi. But when the whole nation is going gaga over the...

ByMK KawApril 11, 2017

Jab se Mohan ghee khaya hai, gaon se nata hi toot gaya! THESE days Congressmen use this famous advertising line to describe the...

ByRenu MittalApril 5, 2017

ByAlam Srinivas and MK ShuklaMarch 9, 2017

THE Jats of Haryana, actively supported by their cousins across the Yamuna river in western UP, are once again up in arms, pressuring...

ByMK ShuklaMarch 9, 2017

IT is indeed ironical. The job reservation policies, especially in the government and public sector jobs, has worked so well that the erstwhile...

ByAlam SrinivasMarch 9, 2017

GOVERNANCE in India continues to suffer the populism unleashed in 1980s by Vishwanath Pratap Singh in his bid to seize power. A junior...

ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaMarch 9, 2017

WHEN Barack Obama became President in 2009, one of the most important decisions in his first 100 days was probably the passage of...

BySESHADRI CHARFebruary 14, 2017

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