Pramod Mahajan

Lok Sabha Election Phase 4: Mumbai's five seats set for tough fight; high-profile candidates include Urmila Matondkar, Poonam Mahajan, Priya Dutt

The fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election is scheduled for Monday and will see a close contest in Maharashtra's Mumbai, as several high-profile candidates face-off in the city's constituencies.

Manohar Parrikar was poster boy of Indian politics: 4-time Goa CM's popularity transcends all religious divide

Parrikar is the exemplar of the original aspiration of the BJP's quest to be the party with a difference. He was different and he made a difference

Maharashtra state budget: Revenue deficit of over Rs 19,000 cr, provision for special fund for farm loan waiver

The final budget which will be presented in the next session (after Lok Sabha elections) will focus on farmers, the poor, women and youth

Shiv Sena’s Chandrakant Khaire claims he can ‘cure’ people by chanting mantras, using ash at National Health Mission event

Shiv Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire has claimed that he can "cure" people by feeling their pulse, chanting mantras and giving them vibhuti (residual wood ash from ritual fires).

Sharad Pawar's nephew Parth contesting Maharashtra polls will complete NCP's transformation into dynastic party

If what Sharad Pawar reportedly said about his grandnephew, Parth Pawar contesting the forthcoming Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, it could — just could — be a game changer in Maharashtra politics

Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies at 93: India mourns leader with exterior of a lotus but inner strength of Vajra

It was not without reason that Atal Bihari Vajpayee's expositions in Parliament endeared him to first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru

BJP faces catch-22 in Vasundhara Raje's Rajasthan: Alwar, Ajmer bypolls point to disaster, but no replacement for CM at hand

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje would have inspired Joseph Heller to write a political version of Catch-22. The premise would have been almost the same: You can't quit flying fighter planes until you are declared insane, you can't be called insane till you keep flying sorties.

SpiceJet chairman and MD Ajay Singh, who may be buying NDTV, is a turnaround man

If Ajay Singh, who saved SpiceJet from the brink, indeed buys NDTV, will he be able to run the media company without biases and intervention?

Ujjwal Nikam and death penalties: With Ankur Panwar's sentencing, SPP secures 6th death penalty of career

Nikam had termed the case fit for death sentence, saying that it falls in the 'rarest of rare' category.

Farewell, Anthony: PA Sangma's grace and class in Parliament is a lesson for all netas

Perhaps few know that former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma was once very close to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. In 1999, he was seen as one of the closest to Sonia, who was then still coming of age vis-à-vis politics after a long period of hibernation following the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi