the Jharkhand High Court on 20 September directed the CBI to explain why Nitish and his party colleague Shivanand Tiwari should not be arraigned as accused in the fodder scam.
Intrusion in Shala Bhata is first since 2001-2002 crisis when Pakistani troops have held Indian territory.
The "dehati aurat" remark allegedly made by Nawaz Sharif was probably much ado about nothing, but it tells a lot about our media and its relationship with Modi.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif used a one-hour meeting on Sunday to defuse border tensions with both sides agreeing to restoring ceasefire along LoC.
International community reacts with outrage as Pakistani premier makes awkward remarks about Dr Manmohan Singh during an off-the-record briefing to journalists.
It’s interesting to contrast the rigorous, fact-based reporting of the local television station on the first day’s violence with the hyperbole on national television, to contrast which actually provided more credible information.
Narendra Modi has, of late, been talking a lot about foreign policy related issues. But so far he has pursued a hackneyed approach, reflecting the done-to-death BJP stand on foreign policy issues.
A fast-track court in Delhi is expected to deliver the verdict in the 16 December gangrape case which caused nation-wide protests and demands for reforms in India's laws.
Andhra's politician-contractors bagged the lion's share of the Rs 90,000 crore Jalayagman project. But they are far from delivering what they promised even as money was spent like water.
Secularism in India is merely an assurance to protect minorities from alleged majoritarian excess. That's why political parties want to keep alive a constant perceived fear among minorities, to emerge as their saviours later
Manohar Parikkar's alleged anti-Modi statement is more a deliberate misreading of what he really told the New York Times than anything else
Prudence demands that journalists working on risky or dangerous assignments need to be alert, take precaution and pay attention to safety first.
The PM has been accused of explaining nothing with his assurances about making "all efforts" to locate the missing coal allocation files. But one thing's clear - someone in the PMO must be a fan of the British comedy Yes, Minister.
His backers would be aware that this would not be the last such damning letter or disclosure against the Modi government. How long the party and the Sangh Parivar can go on defending him?
An announcement of body count on religious lines from the highest quarters in the government is a new and potentially dangerous phenomenon, that began on Monday.
Politicians won’t change the ‘system’. It is foolish to expect them to do that. The answer has to come from within the bureaucracy.
The issue of forming the new state was as much about identity as about compatibility.
Congress General secretary led his party down the wrong path in the UP state assembly elections, and it looks like he is getting ready to do it again with Batla House.
In most modern democracies, political parties have clear ideological foundations. However, in India that's not the case.
The man at the centre of the Bofors scandal is dead today, but countless other Quattrocchis still strut their stuff in the power capital of India, wielding enormous leverage over defence acquisitions - and walking away with big-money bribes.
For someone who has scrupulously avoided public articulation on the 2002 riots, Modi has quite uncharacteristically dropped the ball in his first significant media interview, in which he addressed the riots.
It will take more than Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling to get political parties to clean up their act.
Digvijaya Singh resorts to false equivalence when he pitches his conspiracy-mongering to the Delhi Police's intelligence inputs based on interrogation of Indian Mujahideen suspects.
Here are some conclusions we can draw from initial investigations in to the Mahabodhi temple bombing.
Chinese officials have dismissed Chinese General Luo Yan's tough talk against India as not representing the official view. But Luo frequently channels a hardline Chinese military view that is increasingly hard to dismiss.
For decades now, the political system has done nothing to fix policing—leaving officers to put bullets through the back of suspects’ heads instead of properly investigating and prosecuting crimes. We need to fix this now.
The reasonable risk involved in the growth of tourism and hydel industries is loss of hundreds lives of the local poor who are apparently benefiting from development.
More than two weeks after the floods tragedy thrust itself into the national consciousness, the Bahuguna government has that deer-caught-in-the-headlamps look about it.
The Home Ministry's move to get the CBI to secure sanction for the prosecution of IB officer Rajendra Kumar is the latest twist in the bizarre case.
Cynical politics over the decades has dragged Kashmir into a fine mess today; a war of words that doesn't consider the historical narrative on the subject of Article 370 doesn't help heal Kashmir's wounds.