Just as Narendra Modi mocked the Congress on the rural employment scheme by saying that it was a living example -- "jeeta jagta smarak" -- of the party's failures, the parliamentary approval of a 10 per cent quota for the economically weaker sections under the government's aegis underlined its inadequacies on the economic front....
Ahead of the general elections, Doordarshan News is planning to vastly upscale its social media presence in the coming months with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) expected to keep a tab on its efforts to compete with private channels in digital space....
The Constitutional amendment bill creating 10 per cent quota for economically backward sections in the general category is only for the "privileged class" and violates the basic tenet of reservations, activists and academics say. ...
"The Danish Girl" author David Ebershoff feels the Supreme Court's decision to repeal Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalised homosexuality, is a huge step towards creating an equal world. He says the decision to recognise the LGBTQ community as "legitimate members of society instead of a criminal ...
Special SIT court judge P.B. Desai "ignored evidence" that former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in a mob attack in Ahmedabad's Gulberg Housing Society during the 2002 riots, did all that was possible within his power to protect Muslims from the "rage of the mob" and instead echoed the position of then Chief...
Four women will dominate the global economic policy sphere with eminent academic Gita Gopinath becoming the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) chief economist. ...
Successive governments in Kerala have been pressing the various Union governments demanding the famed Sabarimala temple be elevated to that of a national pilgrim centre but instead is now the focus of an avodable type of international after a Supreme Court directive that women of ...
Sometime in 2001-02, a Group of Ministers headed by L.K. Advani, the then Deputy Prime Minister, had accepted a recommendation of a task force headed by Arun Singh, a former Minister of State for Defence, to create the post of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to ensure that the three wings of the armed forces operated on the sam...
The Accidental Prime Minister" producer Sunil Bohra says he knew there will be conjectures about it being a propaganda film, but he is also certain it will be a game changer for political cinema in India....
Occasionally, a person may have become involved in political feuds within the party, as was Balraj Madhok, who was the president of the Jan Sangh, the BJP's earlier avatar. But such ruptures were few and far between in the saffron camp whereas the Congress, the communists and the socialists had split more than once....
