Inaccurate predictions by a number of exit polls on Bihar elections has brought the reliability of such surveys into sharp focus, say experts....
Barely a week after spearheading a 'March for India' against writers returning awards, actor Anupam Kher launched an attack on writer Arundhati Roy, saying that she should give up her Booker Prize rather than returning the National Award she received....
Amid an open revolt by two of its senior leaders and Lok Sabha members, the political grapevine in this Jammu and Kashmor winter capital is agog with reports the likely transition of power from father to daughter in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) might happen sooner rather than later....
She has a dark skin tone and short thick curls. It's not just her "uncommon" look that becomes a challenge in getting work in India but also the strict laws that discourage foreigners to invest and grow in the country, Nigerian model Ugochi Igwilo says....
Not just the Dalits, OBCs and Muslims, the upper castes too supported the Nitish-Lalu combine, with a majority of the upper caste candidates of the Grand Alliance winning the Bihar assembly elections....
The Bihar poll outcome has come as a big disappointment for the BJP whose efforts to rake up extraneous issues like beef-eating and Pakistan, which were not considered germane by a politically conscious electorate, led to a drubbing that the party leadership least expected. Analysts said the results were without doubt a personal defeat for Narendra Modi, ...
The simmering controversy over intolerance in India is not only affecting the nation's image globally but has emerged as a "new Partition in progress", which is splitting the country based on ideological differences, feels Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi....
While tax treatment of income earned from the three new gold schemes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday is attractive, the treatment of the investors by taxmen is certainly a worrisome factor, said experts....
"Now, it's gone beyond the Akademi and writers. Its become a political issue and it's the turn of the film makers to return their awards", Tiwari told IANS on the sidelines of the All India Poetry Festival jointly organised by Sahitya Akademi and the culture ministry....
Just over a year after the BJP wiped out everyone else in the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh, the panchayat polls have dealt a major blow to it and given a fresh lease of life to the BSP and the Samajwadi Party. The Congress remains where it was -- in the dumps....
