Fifth Columnist: Lucknow tales

Here's your chance to pick your choice of ministers!   Prime Minister Narendra Modi will expand his Union Council of Ministers, the third such exercise since he came to power in May 2014, on Sunday morning. In the first reshuffle on November 9, 2014, Modi inducted 21 ministers, including Suresh Prabhu, Manohar Parrikar, and M A Naqvi.  In the second rejig on July 5, 2016, 19 ministers of state were brought in. The third one may be Modi's ambitious exercise yet, and possibly the last ...

With its eyes firmly on the 2019 general elections, the Narendra Modi government will finally undertake the much awaited reshuffle of the council of ministers on Sunday . Several new ministers are likely to be inducted. Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ...

With the cabinet approval for the institution of a commission to introduce sub-quota within the category OBC, the plank of social justice now appears to be having many contenders, the BJP too making its bid. For a while, politics of caste and its assertion ...

Ruling NDAs candidate M Venkaiah Naidu is tipped to be Indias next vice president as members of Parliament gear up to cast their ballot today. The name of the next vice president of India will be known todayevening after members of Parliament cast their ...

'Forming cults around Lalus, Nitishes, Mulayams, Mayawatis and Mamatas will do as much harm to the Republic as the bhakti of the Hindus for Modi will do,' says Mohammad Sajjad. Given the multichromatic civilisational character of India coupled with pluralistic tolerant ideologies for centuries continuing to inform even the national movement, post-Independence India chose certain ideals as a way forward. A distinctive variety of secularism and socialism came to be accepted as the life blood of ...

Gearing up for the Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has decided to launch "Rath Yatras" in all the 68 Assembly constituencies in the state. The three day state executive meeting of party, which concluded here today, decided to intensify the ...