[ad_1] The winters in 2014 had waned and Manmohan Singh too was lumbering towards at the fag-end of a decade-long reign as the prime minister of India. Like a whirlwind, Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘prime ministerial’ candidate, Narendra Modi, was poised to storm the portals of power in Delhi. Before officially relinquishing his post, the suave…
[ad_1] For months leading up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government’s surprise announcement of including caste enumeration in the upcoming census, Rahul Gandhi had been talking about the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) exercise that the Congress-led UPA-2 government conducted during its tenure. Gandhi, the most vocal voice in opposition demanding a Caste census, would…
[ad_1] Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s alleged involvement in intra-party differences within Congress has been in the news for almost a week. The rumours triggered speculations about Tharoor joining the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with reports claiming Rahul Gandhi is sidelining him amid disgruntlement in the Kerala cadre. Will Shahi Tharoor join BJP? “I have…
[ad_1] “India should seize the present moment, as it will get the best possible deal from Pakistan, and time is running out,” Munir Chowdhary, a former colleague of Murtaza Bhutto, the assassinated son of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, told me at his house in Mirpur area of Pakistan controlled Jammu and Kashmir in January…
[ad_1] A couple of allies in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA have opposed the Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC) decision to fill 45 government posts through lateral entry. The two prominent BJP allies from Bihar – the Janata Dal (United) and the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) – opposed the move. “We are a party…
[ad_1] Amid an ongoing political slugfest over lateral entry into government jobs, the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre on Monday hit-out at Rahul Gandhi over his claim. Slamming Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha and Congress leader, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal reminded that former prime minister Manmohan…
