Indira Gandhi had asked Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka mil...

The disconnect with the AAP is that its economic agenda sounds suspiciously like Indira Gandhi’s of the early 1970s: more subsidies, higher taxes, regulation of private school fees, free water, says T N Ninan. Rahul Gandhi had two closed-door meetings shortly before the Assembly elections, one with businessmen and the other with bankers.  Judging from accounts of the meetings by those present – please read with caution because this is second-hand information – his ...

Rahul Gandhi’s press conference showed how cocooned he may be, that he does not brainstorm with a large enough group of party colleagues and senior leaders. But it also showed how difficult it is going to be to reform an entrenched organisation like the Congress from within, says Neerja Chowdhury. There were two mistakes Rahul Gandhi made during his interview to Times Now’s Arnab Goswami, which is the first freewheeling media interview the Congress vice-president gave since he came ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has directed his cabinet secretary to establish the facts behind claims that Margaret Thatcher's government may have helped Indira Gandhi plan Operation Bluestar in 1984. Labour Member of Parliament Tom Watson and Lord Indarjit Singh had demanded an explanation after recently declassified documents indicated that Britain's Special Air Service officials had been dispatched to help India with the raid. The raid on Golden Temple to flush out militants from the ...

Presenting the findings of a probe into the Margaret Thatcher government's role in helping her counterpart Indira Gandhi, Hague told the Parliament that UK played no role in the operation by the Indian Army. "The Cabinet Secretary’s report therefore ...

‘The Congress will not even get three digits’ ‘We will see a very significant number of voters because of  Narendra Modi’s personality.’  Shiv Sena’s Suresh Prabhu makes predictions ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls Suresh Prabhu, a former cabinet minister and member of Parliament (1996-2009), who was the designated political panelist at the Carnegie conference, had no qualms to predict a colossal loss to the Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha ...

The Congress party’s only hope now lies in its desperate wish that an unstable conglomerate of non-BJP, non-Congress parties comes to power with its support and collapses within a couple of years by which time the party hopes to salvage whatever it can from the debris of 10 years of the UPA’s incumbency, says Saroj Nagi. The day of reckoning is getting closer and it’s time perhaps for the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance to say goodbye. Prime Minister Manmohan ...

New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is adamant on holding an open Assembly session on Jan Lokpal Bill at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium starting this Sunday. Rejecting Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung’s request to rethink over his decision on holding ...

Rahul Gandhi thinks his imaginary Congress is the silver bullet; Narendra Modi thinks he himself is the silver bullet; Arvind Kejriwal seems to think that neighbourhood councils are a silver bullet. But none of them is right, says Mihir S Sharma. The best that could be said of Congress vice president and heir apparent Rahul Gandhi in his interview with National Inquisitor Arnab Goswami is that he came across as a man of few and fixed ideas. His performance reminded many of ...

The Cabinet’s decision to suspend cash transfer of cooking gas subsidy directly into bank accounts of consumers will deal a major blow to the government’s “game-changer” Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme, as the subsidy on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) accounted for 82 per cent of the total amount transferred under the scheme. A year after DBT was implemented, the government has disbursed only Rs 3,124 crore through this channel. Of this, Rs 2,574 crore was towards ...