Sonia is NAC’s lifeline, but will she oblige?

Thursday 29 June '06

With Sonia Gandhi yet to reveal her mind on the future of the National Advisory Council, there is growing concern within the Congress and Left that it may become dysfunctional

Advani effect wanes, Rajnath in Atal team

Tuesday 27 June '06

BJP President Rajnath Singh who completes six months in office at the end of this week has not only managed to remain...

Many happy returns of those days, with some change

Monday 26 June '06

Former prime minister and ‘Mandal messiah’ VP Singh’s 75th birthday provided the perfect occasion for a range of political and social activists to shower praises on the ‘‘amazing life of an amazing man’’ today

Two political overtures and a birthday

Sunday 25 June '06

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan is not the only one celebrating V.P. Singh’s 75th birthday tomorrow. Hours before Paswan’s dinner...

Farmer crisis: PM set to visit Vidarbha

Thursday 22 June '06

Notwithstanding Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s assertion that there was nothing ‘‘unusual’’ in the spate of farmers’ suicides in the country

Private quota may haunt Monsoon Session

Saturday 17 June '06

The Congress leadership may have put a lid on Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar’s call for SC/ST quotas in the private sector...

In Telangana turf, Left goes two ways

Tuesday 13 June '06

The CPI(M)’s decision to spurn the Congress and tie up with the Telugu Desam in at least two districts of Andhra Pradesh...

Cong veterans line up for Raj Bhavans

Monday 12 June '06

With prospects of entering government more or less sealed and party work offering little avenue for advancement, a number of ‘‘veteran’’ Congressmen and women have joined the race to Raj Bhavans — over half a dozen of which are expected to find new occupants in the next few days.

Kumaraswamy could sacrifice govt for Bill

Wednesday 7 June '06

Guided by his father H.D. Deve Gowda at every step, Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy is ready to ‘‘sacrifice’’ his government and go in for fresh elections if coalition partner BJP refuses to back the streamlining of the Karnataka Infrastructure Development

Teaming with Sena-BJP on Bajaj, NCP says Cong flouting coalition dharma

Tuesday 6 June '06

Reeling under the far from resolved controversies over the quota and Office of Profit issues, the Congress-led UPA faced another blow today with key constituent NCP formally joining hands...

Days ago, Rahul was testing BJP’s waters but not many tears being shed in party

Saturday 3 June '06

Pramod Mahajan’s murder at the hands of his brother last month evoked shock and sympathy within the ranks of the Sangh Parivar that had nurtured him.

VS puts Marxist economist at planning helm

Thursday 1 June '06

Faced with the daunting challenge of turning around Kerala’s economy by walking the tightrope between West Bengal-style reforms and traditional ‘pro-people’ policies

How Bengal was won

Saturday 13 May '06

Brand Buddha and the party combine to make CPI(M) the Left and Right choice

As Third Front fears evaporate, UPA breathes easy, Cong counts scores

Friday 12 May '06

Two years after its historic victory on May 13, 2004, the Assembly elections results from four key states and one Union Territory...

Remembering Mahajan

Thursday 11 May '06

When he was alive, the RSS always had an ambivalent attitude towards Pramod Mahajan, and though his tragic death has invoked fulsome tributes in the Organiser, some of that ambivalence creeps through.

200 plus, cry Comrades, but ominous whispers of ‘low margin’ all over

Tuesday 9 May '06

With the state’s most long-drawn, most silent, and most enigmatic elections finally drawing to a close this evening, an air of feverish suspense has descended over all of West Bengal.

Winds of change in Kolkata, urban poor not sure they will sway

Monday 8 May '06

As glitzy malls, multiplexes and flyovers throw suburbs into deeper shadow, one question on every mind: where are the jobs?

Secret behind CPM’s successive wins may lie in rural cold storage

Saturday 6 May '06

Rural prosperity is visible, so what should worry CPM? Divide between neo-rich, landless labour—and too much party everywhere

In Bengal’s Red Fort, it’s Nirvachan Sadan Zindabad. So?

Thursday 4 May '06

The silence is almost surreal. It’s Voting Day in the virtual epicentre of Bengal’s Red Fort. But there are no flags, no posters, no party worker hovering around anywhere.

Team loses star all-rounder

Thursday 4 May '06

His anecdote: Punjab CM’s driving down a dark road. A rabbit scurries across, stops, gazes at the headlights, is run over. ‘‘Do you know,” the CM asks, ‘‘why the rabbit died? Because at crucial moment, it didn’t know whether to go forward or turn back.”

He, she and them

Thursday 27 April '06

Some Congress leaders are straying in spite of good vibes between Sonia & PM

View from the right

Thursday 27 April '06

The Supreme Court order may have been even-handed to both the pro-Narmada Dam lobby and the Narmada Bachao Andolan, but the Organiser sees it as a victory for the “principled stand” of Narendra Modi.

Mahajan’s Lakshman Rekha

Sunday 23 April '06

As Pramod Mahajan, arguably the BJP’s most dynamic leader, struggles for life in a Mumbai hospital, a haunting sense of irony—laced with myth and memory—is overwhelming.

Mandal wars: JD(U) says no to BJP SOS for help in Rae Bareli

Friday 21 April '06

Signalling the beginning of a realignment of forces in what is already being termed the ‘‘Mandal II’’ phase of politics...

‘Media hear the vocal, govt has to hear silent majority’

Thursday 13 April '06

As the political cauldron in Delhi braces for a fresh bout of churning on reservations that threatens to reignite old animosities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today came out with a fervent advocacy for the ideal of ‘‘consensus’’