MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Politics does not always pay. This perhaps is the bitter lesson that the political parties have learnt in the just-concluded panchayat elections. All three …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The “Kitchen Cabinet” meeting began although the chairperson Sonia Gandhi was yet to arrive. Since it was already past lunch hour, the “Kitchen Cabinet” decided to have …
With middle-class India—not rural India, or the poor sections of middle-class India—in the throes of a fine slew, GAUTAMA P. hacks into the Titter account of health minister Ghulam Nabi …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: A grateful nation should thank Manmohan Singh for not appointing a health specialist as the nation’s health minister. For, if he had, we would …
The number of Muslim MPs has come down from 36 in 2004 to 29 in 2009 (including three women) although the general belief is that Muslim voters played a key …
There is something words can’t capture in any language about the stomach-churning grief of a parent losing a progeny. Ten years ago, former railway minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief had the …
The decision of the Congress-led Jammu & Kashmir government of Ghulam Nabi Azad to assign 39.88 hectares (approximately 100 acres) of degraded forest land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board …
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