Queens of the Ball

Sunday 26 November '06

Staggered by the philanthropic potential of India’s newly rich, British-Asian charity queens Ramola Bachchan and Surina Narula have decided to bring their glitzy do-good dos to town

Renuka questions total ban on child labour

Monday 20 November '06

Union Minister of State for Women & Child Development Renuka Chowdhury wants the ban on child labour eased to allow them to pick up traditional crafts and skills such as carpet-weaving within the family structure.

At ISF centrestage, cry from periphery: We want our rights, not saviours

Saturday 11 November '06

It is the ultimate in protest chic — a bunch of feisty sex-workers from Satara, Maharashtra, clenching their fists in the air and storming down the road of anarchy, at the India Social Forum, shouting

Anti-Bush, anti-Manmohan, anti-... jamboree time again

Monday 6 November '06

From homogenisation to retail to shrinking space for debate, India chapter of World Social Forum ready with meet agenda.

The Haute Holiday

Sunday 29 October '06

Forget touristy destinations and tacky promotions of five-star package deals. The ritzy globetrotter’s vacation—private, luxurious and bespoke—is giving a whole new twist to the Incredible India cliche

Happy Birthday Lord Macaulay, thank you for ‘Dalit empowerment’

Thursday 26 October '06

He’s the Big Mac for the Dalit intelligentsia — reviled as the ugly face of English imperialism by detractors, exalted by intellectual renegades.

Maya fulfils Kanshi’s wishes, brings ashes home

Friday 13 October '06

When Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati strode into the party headquarters here with the ashes of her mentor and BSP founder Kanshi Ram, she was only fulfilling her late mentor’s wishes.

Lalit Suri passes away in London

Wednesday 11 October '06

To more than one celebrity attending a reception hosted by the Indian High Commissioner last evening, Lalit Suri extended an invitation for a night out in London. But he eventually went out alone

They were all there, to bid Kanshi final farewell

Tuesday 10 October '06

The line of the supreme and powerful who came to pay their last respects to the late Bahujan Samaj Party founder and Dalit “messiah”, Kanshi Ram, at his residence, was a fitting tribute in itself — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Ally Left joins VP against Mulayam

Monday 9 October '06

It Could not be good news for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.

VP politicising farmers’ movement: Ajit

Friday 29 September '06

The battlelines are still to be drawn for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, but “natural” allies like VP Singh’s Jan Morcha...

Ajit readies report card on UP tie-up

Tuesday 26 September '06

In a stunning admission, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh has said it is only a matter of weeks before he announces...

As polls draw near, UP CM goes ‘shopping’ for votes

Monday 25 September '06

As the battle for Uttar Pradesh begins to hot up, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav is on a spending spree, giving crores to welfare schemes to the disadvantaged — from the girlchild to the unemployed youth.

The Behenji Backlash

Sunday 17 September '06

Films, TV and other popular media these days are witnessing the reign of the behenji

Alliance report card soon, says Ajit Singh

Saturday 9 September '06

In a stunning admission, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh has said it was only a matter of weeks before he announced his review report...

Why Mulayam is angry with VP wooing MBCs

Thursday 7 September '06

It is not surprising that the Samajwadi Party chose to singularly target former prime minister VP Singh and the Jan Dal at its third anniversary celebrations of its government in UP, last week.

Pawarhouse Putri

Sunday 3 September '06

For a debutante, Supriya Sule has created the kind of buzz that would be the envy of seasoned politicos. Is it only because of her lineage? Vrinda Gopinath finds out

Three years down, is Mulayam’s time UP?

Thursday 31 August '06

Lucknow saw a poorly attended political bash on Tuesday, Mulayam Singh Yadav government’s third anniversary. Is it time to seriously ask whether UP is readying for a regime change?

Another Pawar rises in NCP, daughter headed for RS

Sunday 27 August '06

Supriya Sule’s shift will ensure there is no tussle for power with cousin Ajit Pawar back home

Independents to pack a punch in Rajya Sabha

Tuesday 22 August '06

The BJP was one, the Left another headache for the UPA. The ruling coalition may now have to protect another flank.

Lucknow gets Express: state of the heart is now state of the art too

Sunday 13 August '06

It was with mechanical velocity and roar that The Indian Express Group launched its Imprinting Empowerment Series in Lucknow today...

As they sharpened axe, he dined with Amar, Yashwant to take on the n-deal

Wednesday 9 August '06

In the thudding heart of power Delhi, a phantasm-Mughal court late night drama played out, stretching from the mighty Congress headquarters at 24 Akbar Road...

JLo to Brad, Keanu to Cameron, Hollywood to Bhutan

Sunday 6 August '06

Glaciers, forests, chants, kid-monks...and the Himalayas. For celeb-tourist, Bhutan sizzles as mystical haven in the age of globalisation

SP turns down UPA invite to discuss

Thursday 3 August '06

The Samajwadi Party may just get an invitation from the UPA-led Centre to discuss the Indo-US nuclear deal which dominated Parliament on Wednesday

Maya takes media on a tour of ‘home truths’

Friday 30 June '06

It is with a new-found pizzazz that Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati flung off the ‘‘veil of falsehood’’ to expose the “canards” spread by her political rivals, at her ancestral village of Badalpur