

Sunday 30 August '09
Prakash Ambedkar’s Bharatiya Republican Paksha Bahujan Mahasangh is likely to join the Third Front -under the banner of Republican Left Democratic Front as a constituent in a week.Monday 17 August '09
Raj Thackeray has always considered his uncle Bal Thackeray as his role model and has been imitating his gestures and words for years.Saturday
8 August '09A day after former MP Ramdas Athawale and other leaders of over a dozen factions of Republican Party of India...Wednesday
5 August '09CITING the sharp rise in atrocities against Dalits in the state and discontent in the large, politically crucial community....Sunday
2 August '09To ensure that the benefits of reservation reach all the deprived communities who have to compete with the “better off” within themselves...Saturday
1 August '09To ensure that the benefits of reservation reach all the deprived communities who have to compete with the “better off” within themselves...Monday
27 July '09After his revolt in the Shiv Sena on the ground that his God (Bal Thackeray) was surrounded by a coterie of priests, Raj Thackeray formed...Friday
17 July '09It was not the Congress that had defeated the BJP in the 1998 Assembly elections in four states, it was the onion. The vegetable remains as politically potent.Saturday
11 July '09NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s suggestion to name the Bandra-Worli sea link in Mumbai after Rajiv Gandhi...Thursday
2 July '09NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s suggestion that the Bandra-Worli Sea Link be named after Rajiv Gandhi has created ripples both within and outside his party, for different reasons.Wednesday
1 July '09NCP Chief Sharad Pawar’s suggestion to name the Bandra-Worli Sea Link after Rajiv Gandhi has not gone down...Monday
22 June '09Shattered by the lacklustre performance of his party in the recent Lok Sabha elections, NCP Sharad Pawar....Friday
19 June '09Behind the rhetoric of the Congress-NCP and the Shiv Sena-BJP alliances criticising each other in the run-up to the Assembly elections...Wednesday
17 June '09Kerala Governor Gavai, who allowed action on CPM’s Pinarayi in Lavalin scam, is known for doing the ‘right thing’ at the ‘right time’Wednesday
10 June '09On May 25, 1999, Sharad Pawar, P A Sangma and Tariq Anwar decided to form a new political party — the Nationalist Congress Party...Monday
25 May '09While the Congress celebrates its victory in the Lok Sabha elections and cries itself hoarse about its secular credentials....Monday
18 May '09The Lok Sabha results are expected to change the political equations between ruling allies Congress and NCP as well as the opposition BJP...Sunday
17 May '09The Congress added to its 2004 Lok Sabha tally in Maharashtra, brushing aside indications of anti-incumbency.Thursday
14 May '09In a state where major political parties have remained polarised in two formations — the ‘secular’ (Congress-NCP-RPI) and the ‘saffron’ (Shiv Sena-BJP)....Wednesday
13 May '09In an honest admission that theirs was an alliance born of “political necessity”, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Maharashtra president R R Patil....Thursday
30 April '09The ruling Congress-NCP alliance is likely to lose a couple of seats in the third and final phase of polling in Maharashtra on Thursday when 10 constituencies....Saturday
25 April '09In the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, the hobnobbing between the Shiv Sena and NCP leaders had led to speculation about a possible tie-up...Thursday
23 April '09Three years ago, when Sonia Gandhi visited the Muslim-dominated textile town of Malegaon in Maharashtra after serial bomb blasts....Thursday
23 April '09NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s dream of occupying the prime minister’s chair is at stake as Maharashtra votes for 25 seats....Thursday
23 April '09Already reeling from the economic downturn, Nashik region, a bastion of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray....