After four years of UPA 2, the India story looks bleak

It is once again open season on Manmohan Singh. He presides over the most corrupt government India has seen, his inertia has infected policy with paralysis, he has no authority except to twitch as desired by puppeteer Sonia Gandhi, he loves power ...

Indian politicians, especially those aspiring to capture power, seldom change their spots even when they make grandiloquent promises to wholly transform the polity and society. Slightly over two years ago Mamata Banerjee, the stormy petrel of Bengal politics, ...

Indian-American supporters of Kejriwal said non-residents have a crucial role to play in the political movement being spearheaded by the politician. AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal. "We NRIs (Non-resident Indians) and PIOs (People of Indian origin) ...

Very few politicians of independent India can be credited with bringing about paradigm shift in the political discourse of the country. L K Advani is definitely one of them. Advani is the man who successfully metamorphosed the concept of ...

It's palpably clear that virtually every limb of the political system ? such as they exist in India ? is fractured for now others would say it is beyond repair. The decline in governance levels has given rise to widespread popular frustration, ...

Uttar Pradesh may wield its clout in Indian polity by sending the maximum number of MPs (80 to Lok Sabha and 31 to Rajya Sabha), but the tendency of politicians and their kin and aides to display power by using the beacon-sporting vehicles has become a bane ...

The Karnataka election presented a peculiar instance of Indian politics. The people of the state have felt terribly betrayed by the BJP, which had formed its first-ever government in southern India in 2008. But there was not much to expect from the ...

patricia mukhimTHE Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act dates back to 1958 when it was passed by the Indian Parliament to quell the Naga rebellion in a so-called disturbed area. It was later extended to Assam, Manipur, Tripura, parts of Meghalaya and ...

Democracy needs synergy with education: Meira Kumar Understand values of Indian polity, Speaker tells burea... 'Education a tool for social empowerment' Parliament adjourned over coal blocks issue New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) For a democracy to ...