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NDA Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind with LK Advani, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah (from left) after filing nomination papers. (Photo: Twitter | @narendramodi)

A symbolic Dalit duel & democratic dynamics

The Indian polity has changed in a great many ways, and dalits can't be used as political pawns any longer.

26 Jun 2017 12:41 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to discuss the MMTS phase-II project on 9th June 2017 through a video conference.

Modi's biggest test is to get economy going

Combined with low productivity, low inflation is a symptom of an ailing economy.

14 Jun 2017 2:24 AM IST

Congress President Sonia Gandhi with Vice-President Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

In a changed India, can Cong reinvent itself?

The political ennui in the Congress is symptomatic of the state of the country.

8 Jun 2017 1:09 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

After 3 years, coming to terms with reality

The Modi government has got down from the high horse of rhetorical claims.

26 May 2017 12:28 AM IST

Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian

Why the pundits fail to speak truth to power

The charge levelled by chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian appeared to be a serious one.

14 May 2017 1:20 AM IST

Hindi, despite official backing, has not managed to gear itself up to make itself an eligible language to meet the needs and challenges of governance on the one hand, and of raising itself to the level of easy communication in the fields of science and technology, economics, philosophy and literature.

A red herring and a red rag

Hindi is not going to swamp the country.

23 April 2017 7:56 AM IST

From 2004 to 2014 the Indian economy grew by an average of over 7.8 per cent each year.

Growth crawls, DeMo blues linger

Demonetisation hurt the economy more than anything else.

21 April 2017 12:35 AM IST

Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. (Photo: PTI)

Will BJP put Hindutva on backburner in UP?

The BJP's counter-strategy will be to prove their detractors wrong.

21 March 2017 12:38 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to people during his road show in Varanasi. (Photo: PTI)

UP voted for change, not ideology

People want change, and a change for the better.

12 March 2017 12:38 AM IST

Policemen guard as All India Students Association (AISA) and Jawaharlal Nehru University students hold a protest demanding the arrest of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members at the police headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: File/PTI)

Limit to free speech? Debate call ominous

The nation cannot be broken up in the name of free speech and ordinary people have nothing but disdain for leftist...

1 March 2017 12:31 AM IST

Budget 2017 is much too staid to raise any sparks at any time.

Budget 2017: A bland exercise

Arun Jaitley's fourth successive Budget, presented on Wednesday, was a bland one, like his three previous presentations.

2 Feb 2017 2:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed by Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on his arrival at the airport in Lucknow on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

UP polls may not be national bellwether

The BJP wants to win UP to flex its muscle at the national level.

5 Jan 2017 1:34 AM IST