The results in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan came as a major shock for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has won all the major states barring Delhi, Bihar, Punjab and Karnataka in elections held after the sweeping 2014 Lok Sabha victory....
The Congress recorded its best-ever performance against the BJP since the disastrous 2014 Lok Sabha polls capturing power in the three Hindi heartland states and reviving its hopes in the next general elections. But the outcome has also sent signals that defeating the BJP nationally may not be an easy task....
By setting in motion the process of undoing the pronounced pro-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tilt in Indian politics when the party secured a majority in the Lok Sabha and ruled at one time over 19 states, the voters of the three heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have sent out two unambiguous messages....
Several celebrities have lost their lives to opioid overdose. In October 2017 top-charting singer and songwriter, Tom Petty died a week after two very successful tours. He died of accidental overdose of pain medications like Fentanyl patches prescribed for severe pain, while on several other medications. ...
Billed as "a masterpiece in every sense of the word", Rajmohan Gandhi's upcoming book "Modern South India" is promoted by its publisher Aleph as an authoritative and magnificent work of history about South India that will be read and reflected upon for years to come....
If you have seen those cinematic cliffhangers in which the protagonist gets two attackers to turn on each other, researchers have got a more sedate but useful version: they get Zika viruses to take on cancer cells. ...
The Congress deserves two cheers for recovering from being down in the dumps in 2014 to a position where it is believed to be posing a credible challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh....
Two days ago, Dharmendra was in his bungalow in Juhu (these days he spends most of his time on his farm in Lonavala, where he is busy writing poetry in Urdu) and knowing that it was his 83rd birthday on December 8 I asked him if he had any one dream unfullfilled....
When he was successful in his career and made enough money, Dr. Abraham M. George did the unthinkable-he moved back to India in 1995 to uplift the poorest of the poor, in this case the untouchables in a village in Tamil Nadu, bordering Karnataka....
There has been a communication gap in conveying the government's welfare measures in Rajasthan and this has been addressed, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has said as the state goes to the polls on Friday to choose a new Assembly amidst reports of anti-incumbency jitters for Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje....
