The stupendous victory of the Congress in the just-concluded assembly polls in Punjab may be credited to a variety of factors, but unintended help also came from the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP combine and new political entrant AAP....
For all the focus on Muslims in the Uttar Pradesh elections -- demonised by the BJP and actively wooed by the BSP as well as the Congress-SP combine -- the number of people from the community in the 17th Vidhan Sabha has touched a historic low of 25....
The BJP's massive victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand will help the party in the upcoming presidential election and also increase its strength in the Rajya Sabha....
However, since this recovery is largely confined to UP and Uttarakhand, and is not reflected in Punjab and Goa, it is obvious that the magic of the last general election with its much wider ambit has eluded him....
The Rajya Sabha on Friday passed by a voice vote the Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016, after all opposition members present in the upper house walked out in protest one after the other....
Former US President Barack Obama shared a letter by an Indian-American woman on the occasion of International Womens Day, urging others to read about her "inspiring" story....
Racial discrimination against Indians and the recent killings in the US figured in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, with Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge saying it has started happening after Donald Trump took over as President of the US....
Pradeep Nair, who previously headed then US President Bill Clinton's Climate Initiative in India, was on Wednesday named The Ford Foundation regional director for its office serving India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka....
All great things have humble beginnings -- so goes a saying. This is very true in the case of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the darling of India's science community and the world's envy....
The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) -- an organisation established to safeguard the constitutional and legal rights of minorities and which was once headed by Hamid Ansari, now India's Vice President -- currently has no chairperson and virtually no members....
