Opinion

Digvijaya Singh, popularly known as Diggi Raja, was once seen as Rahul Gandhi's mentor when the Gandhi scion was the AICC general secretary, learning the ropes of political manoeuvers.

Most Indian politicians of the past and present seem to be following the dictum — when in doubt, blame a foreign hand.

If any leader, after Mahatma Gandhi, has been able to implement political voluntarism on the ground successfully, it would be Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The government could bail out IL&FS by other means or by nudging state insurer LIC and state-run banks to do the needful. But what matters is IL&FS is too big to fail and it needs rescuing.

Gauri’s interests showed range: politics, literature, films, theatre. Her work experience in Delhi and her travels abroad, in France, the United States of America, and South Africa, had allowed her an exposure not commonly available to journalists in Karn...

What I saw on ground shook me up and reinforced my faith in humanity.

The biggest announcement PM Modi made during his Independence Day speech was the launch of Pradhan Mantri Arogya Abhiyan. He said India wants to offer health insurance for free to 50 crore people under ‘Ayushman Bharat’.

O Panneerselvam who found himself in the chief minister's chair in 2014, after a Bengaluru court convicted the late J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case, now finds himself in the dock in a DA case himself.

The sulking Shiv Sena is doing nothing secretly and every decision has the stamp of party chief Uddhav Thackeray.

Mentally ill persons continue to face abominable stigma and discrimination in all walks of life even though mental illness indiscriminately attacks all caste, religion and class alike.

Rahul Gandhi did not refrain from scoring political points, even on the India-China, Doklam dispute, where the whole world praised Modi government’s hard diplomacy, writes Shantanu Gupta.

The bench hearing the case issued notice to the Union government, calling for them to explain their position in two weeks while orally observing the potential for this project towards “creating a surveillance state”.

From the jubilation that one has seen across south Kashmir, including in CM’s own constituency Anantnag, it is clear that the anger of the masses was against this alliance.

A non-performing government of strange bedfellows, who reluctantly formed a political alliance after prolonged discussion, has been doomed, mainly because of differences in the state’s priorities and approaches to deal with them.

The absence of Congress, the TRS and BJD in the solidarity show has added a sour note exposing fissures in the anti-Modi grouping.

Is India now calling on Pakistan to cooperate in not only intelligence sharing but suggesting that Indian and Pakistani agencies should jointly develop leads on potential terrorist attacks?