A solution to the two-month-old crippling Naga indefinite economic blockade of Manipur is nowhere in sight with Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and the United Naga Council (UNC) not budging from their respective stands, officials said. The UNC had imposed the indefinite blockade on November 1 in protest against the government's plan to create tw...
Amid a raging battle for supremacy in the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday morning went to meet his father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. According to informed sources, the move was a last minute bid to save the party from imminent split ahead of the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pra...
New Delhi, Dec 31 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on Saturday evening, as the 50-day period sought by him to ease the cash crunch situation across the country got over on December 30. Modi will address the nation before the dawn of the New Year. The address will likely happen at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. Modi last addressed the natio...
The Narendra Modi government came under increasing attack by opposition parties through the year over a range of issues, including demonetisation, but larger opposition unity remained elusive due to the competing interests of political outfits opposed to the ruling BJP-led alliance....
The year that is ticking down saw the Supreme Court guarding its turf against the Narendra Modi government's attempts to have its say in judicial appointments by sitting on the appointments recommended by the collegium, and reversing attempts to destabilise the Congress governments in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand...
It was a tumultuous, even controversial, time for literature in 2016 with mixed reactions to the unexpected recipients of its most prestigious prizes, the latest installment of a popular series and appeals of a host of top British and American authors ahead of major political developments in their respective co...
The euphoria over sending its biggest contingent ever to the Olympics did not last as the performance of Indian athletes did not measure up to promise....
She once said that she wants the world, and it seems 2016 helped her get a few steps closer to her dream. T...
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress' resounding win in the assembly polls, the Singur case verdict that further strengthened the ruling party's position and the once invincible Left Front's continued marginalisation were the highlights in the action-packed political theatre of West Bengal in 2016...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) consolidated its position as the premier national party of Indian politics in 2016, breaking new ground in some states. ...
