Political parties yet to move beyond symbols on women's empowe...

By A K B Krishnan The stage is now set for the biggest-ever Indian election spectacle involving 814mn voters and 11mn personnel conducting the polls at 930,000 polling stations using 1.4mn electronic voting machines. It will be the largest ...

19 April 2014, New Delhi, Team MP PM mulling to convene meeting of Lokpal Selection committee on 27 or 28 April About a month before UPA tenure ends, the government is making efforts to put in place the structure of the anti-corruption body ...

On 5 April, I read a story in Los Angeles Times on the elections that just took place in Afghanistan. Taliban, for weeks before polling, had been threatening to kill the citizens of Afghanistan if they participated in the democratic process of voting. So a ...

In September 2004, I attended a reunion of my class at Harvard Business School, four years after the Supreme Court decision putting George W. Bush in office and immediately before the next Presidential election. We invited Elaine Kamarck, then at ...

The Conversation No vote: despite activists urgings, the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks were stymied by the threat of veto. EPA/HENNING BAGGER/AAP Anyone who has watched in frustration as the United Nations repeatedly failed to secure a meaningful ...

President Obama's proposal to double the earned income tax credit (EITC) for the working poor on March 4 came with all the promises of attendant benefits that such an expansion would provide: It would reduce poverty while encouraging people who are ...

Mandate 2014 will see political parties wooing the woman vote like never before. Rahul Gandhi is already at it for the Congress with determined chants of "women's empowerment''. Narendra Modi is busy selling his "chaiwala'' roots to the electorate ...

Press Trust of India New Delhi, 27 February Raising strong objections to the highly improper procedure adopted by government in making key appointments to Lokpal, BJP leader Arun Jaitley has charged the department of personnel with diluting ...

With the BJP seeking President Pranab Mukherjees intervention, the government and Opposition appear to be heading for a collusion over the Lokpal selection panel. The BJP has rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs move to appoint senior lawyer P.P. Rao as a ...