SC continues ban on Vedanta's Niyamgiri project

The 50 percent jolt As the BJP stood routed in Karnataka, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan made a public announcement: 50 percent of party tickets for the assembly elections would be given to women. This has set the cat among the pigeons.

By PRABHAKAR TIMBLE The Karnataka election results were expected and toed the lines drawn by pre-poll surveys and exit poll predictions. Some political commentators interpret the outcome as a shocker to the well-wishers of Mr Narendra Modi, who ...

While the nation speculates over the next Prime Minister, in the Karnataka Congress all speculation is over the next chief minister. Complacency and infighting for the top job, many in the Congress headquarters here fear, may mar the party's ...

In keeping with that eagerness to stake out a larger turf, Modi has in recent times been making frequent appearances at public forums in Delhi and elsewhere. All of these forays were undertaken at the invitation of specific event hosts, be it the ...

The author investigates the real link between inequality, poverty and growth Sikkim's clash of civilisations Sunanda K Datta-Ray The old faultlines of identity remain despite aggressive modernity The learnings from Boston suggest that India's police ...

Nomination papers for the Karnataka Assembly elections have been filed. The Congress is facing rebel trouble while the BJP and the JD(S) want to exploit this. The KJP is trying to fish in the troubled waters. So what's the actual ground situation? D ...

Caste has always been a key factor in any election in Karnataka. This time around the most important vote bank for any party will be the Muslims since all other castes in Karnataka will be divided in the way they vote. The Bharatiya Janata Party swept the elections last time around largely because it received the undivided vote share of the Lingayat community. The Lingayat vote bank is important as it constitutes 21 per cent of the vote share. But in this election the BJP is not confident of ...

As soon as the Election Commission announced the dates for the Karnataka state elections,  poll pundits swung into action to make predictions about the fate of the various major parties in the fray. Most pundits believe that the current political weather in the state seems to favour the Congress. The party has performed well in the recently held municipal polls. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which is in charge of the party’s first government in south India, seems to be on a ...

By dragging its feet over even letting out water that is apportioned, Karnataka has blown emotions into a confrontation among neighbours By dragging its feet over even letting out water that is apportioned, Karnataka has blown emotions into a confrontation ...