Many said that when Pappu's BJD broke up with the BJP, the party was over for the latter. They may well have been right.
Farooq Abdullah had done his usual flip-flop and blown hot and cold before he finally got down to nominating son Omar Abdullah for the chief ministership of Jammu & Kashmir. But co...
It was a tough task, but the DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi not only defied odds in the Lok Sabha elections but also seemed to have his way, managing the motley crew of his family and ...
After Mamata di had vanquished the Tatas, and the CPM, it was the turn of Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav, this time with a White Paper on Railways, showing problems with the earlier Harvar...
It was not just a sartorial reinvention, but the BJP's younger iron man, Narendra Modi was also busy making voting compulsory in local polls-- if he could not avoid polls, that is.
The Jharkhand verdict threw up a hung house once again. And Shibu Soren was back as the king-maker. But the BJP which had shouted from the roof-tops about "tainted ministers" in UP...
UPA, Avatar II
The palm prevailed, and a beaming Dr Singh and Mrs G, brimming with confidence, put in a joint show after the election results.
Mayawati's penchant for building statues, at a stupendous cost (of more than Rs 2,000 crore) to the exchequer, led her to considerable legal trouble. The Supreme Court called it a...
Change in BJP leadership as LK Advani makes way for Nitin Gadkari after he was announced as the new BJP President. Outgoing President Rajnath Singh looks on.
Clearly, it was not just TRS President K. Chandrashekar Rao's huger strike that led to the dramatic late night announcement by the Centre that it was initiating the process for the...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with Leader of Opposition and senior BJP leader LK Advani after offering floral tributes to Dr Rajendra Prasad's portrait on his 125th birth ann...
A Supreme Court panel indicted the Bellary Reddy brothers' firm OMC for illegal mining in unalloted forest areas on the AP-Karnataka border. All activity to be suspended.
A day after RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat said, "As far as BJP is concerned, whatever surgery, medicine, chemotherapy is essential for them, it has to be diagnosed by them," he clarified...
Raj Thackeray-led MNS made its maiden foray in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, playing spoiler for the Shiv Sena-BJP Combine. NCP-Congress had much to thank him and his party ...
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy died in a tragic chopper crash. Postscript: His son Jagan organised unprecedented protests lobbying for his appointment as his...
A lawyer and environmentalist by profession, the NCP MP from Tura constituency of Meghalaya, Agatha Sangma, at the age of 28, became the youngest Minister of State (for rural deve...
Movie star-turned-politician Chiranjeevi gestures as he speaks during an election campaign near Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Chiranjeevi, the beloved hero of 149 adventure-romance f...
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram escaped as a journalist Jarnail Singh hurled a shoe at him during a press conference at AICC headquarters in New Delhi. The journalist was protest...
Victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots protest against Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar outside Karkardooma Court in New Delhi. The CBI gave Tytler a clean chit, sayin...
The odd man out. LK Advani with senior leaders Jaswant Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley during the launch of party's IT vision in New Delhi. Mr Jaitley's problems with Party ...
