In JNU student poll, Kabali mauls Gabbar- ‘To push reforms, ministers took risk, responsibility’
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an eminent economist and civil servant, was a key member of the 1991 reform dream team. A large chunk of the reform measures were based on what is famously known as the “M - ‘Manmohan and I even had the same speech’
As finance minister in the outgoing Chandra Shekhar government, Yashwant Sinha presented the Interim Budget for 1991-92, four months before Manmohan Singh’s first Budget. He spoke to Surojit Gupta - Licence raj gone. Now, get rid of permission raj
It is said that nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. On the anniversary of the crisis-compelled 1991 reforms, amidst the ring of congratulatory applause and certification of - Wheels to new wings, Khattar is on a move
Haryana had an eight-seater aircraft for VVIP movement which had crashed in March 2014 during take-off at Chandigarh Airport. Then Haryana governor Jagannath Pahadia, his wife, and eight others on - How a Kerala village missed the signs of radicalization ... till 12 went missing
It is sandwiched between the politically volatile Kannur and a communally sensitive Kasargod, but Padne village doesn’t share the characteristics of either district. The Muslim-dominated area was - No `money power' thwarts women's rise to high ranks in TN
In February this year, the Tamil Nadu assembly passed a legislation reserving 50% of seats for women in all rural and urban local bodies. However, elected women representatives, especially panchayat - With rejig, Amma revs up AIADMK for civic polls
With local body polls looming, chief minister J Jayalalithaa has set in motion a series of measures to give new energy to the party. It started with an emotional speech to party cadres during the - Old game, new rules? - 'Councillor ma'm? She's a housewife!'
After the Tamil Nadu assembly passed a bill to raise the reservation for women in panchayats and corporations across the state from 33% to 50%, officials have gone into a huddle to identify 100 wards - Putting words in the PM’s mouth
In the US, speechwriters have been part of the presidential entourage since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But in India, they are phantom presences, sensed but never seen, as politicians are loath to - Hope of riding back to power fuels Samajwadi Party's new rath
Sources said the yatra is likely to begin from September 13, considered lucky for the Yadav clan. During 2012 UP polls, Akhilesh had started his Kranti Rath Yatra on September 13. - Fund devolution at all levels will make panchayats self-reliant: Mani Shankar Aiyar
In an interview to Yogesh Kabirdoss, Aiyar lauds TN's decision to increase reservation for women in panchayats from 33% to 50% provided the ruling party ensures that its male cadres do not put up - 65,000 women to hold power in TN local bodies
Four months from now, the dynamics of local bodies is set to change. Half of 1.32 lakh posts in municipal corporations, municipalities, town panchayats and panchayats will be represented by women — up - Strong cadre can steer Congress to recovery
In its 131 years of existence, the Congress has faced multiple challenges. For a party still hanging between the old guard and new talent, a series of poll debacles has created serious doubts in the - Indian netas not the marrying kind?
Apart from their remarkable victories, what links J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee and Sarbananda Sonowal? That they stand alone, with no immediate families around them. Out of this year’s crop of - They speak Malayalam, but vote in Tamil Nadu
A long list of 19 candidates, their parties and symbols are pasted outside Holy Farm Primary School, Arukani near Kootappo. The posters have been printed in both Malayalam and Tamil. Close to the - In democracy by donkey, everybody wins
Election officials on Sunday dispatched electronic voting machines (EVMs) to different polling booths across Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts - in six remote booths, by porters - Good ol' days: When ballot boxes had colours, leaders walked the streets
Walking into a polling booth in Saidapet, 22-year-old K Mahalingam was least bothered that everyone in the booth would know which party he was voting for. - Tamil Nadu polls: Personal connect with voters to be the decider
- The Nehru you don’t know
Welcome to the virtual world of Nehru vilification. Entirely unhinged from reality, these wild stories about India’s first prime minister, who laid the foundations of its democracy, are nonetheless - With dad on poll route, kids chip in with campaign chores
For Harshan, it was the Chennai floods that made him consider a change of career.He and his team at the radio station worked 24/7 to connect people in distress with NGOs and volunteers. - Education, a subject politicos have forgotten
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." Or at least that's what one of the manifestos state. It sure sounds good on paper but despite the tall claims, education has not exactly - North of Cauvery lie TN's least developed districts
In terms of regional variations, Tamil Nadu has long seen itself as a monolithic state unlike say Karnataka where each region is nearly a sub-state. But, as people's aspirations boom, a more - Poles apart: Candidates give voters' issues a miss
Party candidates contesting in the 16 city constituencies have not highlighted or promised to address issues of traffic congestion and pollution in their poll campaigns so far, though they claimed to - Parties ponder if delimitation helped them
- Most Andhra schemes sport 'Chandranna' monicker
Andhra Pradesh is witnessing a 'Chandranna mania' of sorts. In what appears to be an attempt to project himself as a 'messiah of the state', chief minister Chandrababu Naidu is naming most government
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