26 Jul 2010
THE JOB profile of the Union home minister has never included the word “diplomacyâ€. Palaniappan Chidambaram knows it better than any of his predecessors, including ...
19 Jul 2010
SPIRALLING prices, the Maoist menace, the Bhopal tragedy compounded, the fiasco in Islamabad, feuding ministers. The list is long enough to make anyone think that ...
12 Jul 2010
AMONTH ago, when in the wake of the 2G spectrum scandal, rumours swirled about the possible axing of A. Raja. A Congress spokesperson said, “It ...
05 Jul 2010
ON JULY 15, foreign minister S.M. Krishna will leave for Islamabad for bilateral talks with his Pakistani counterpart. Krishna says he is going for talks ...
28 Jun 2010
IT WAS once touted as a cadre-based party, bred on iron discipline whose leaders do not compromise on principles. Today, it is at best an ...
21 Jun 2010
DESPITE being Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy for more than six years now, Manmohan Singh is yet to make the transition from economist ...
14 Jun 2010
THERE is a raging existential crisis in the Congress that threatens to cripple the government and the party. UPA ministers feuding openly at cabinet meetings ...
07 Jun 2010
LATER this month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave behind spiralling prices, the Maoist menace, feuding cabinet ministers, Mamata’s tantrums and other niggling issues and ...
31 May 2010
MANMOHAN Singh must have known it was coming and it has come earlier than he expected. There have been deep divisions within the union cabinet ...
24 May 2010
EVEN as you are reading this, Manmohan Singh is probably preparing for what is only his second formal press conference after assuming office as the ...
17 May 2010
IAMnot the betting kind, but if for a change, I were to indulge in it, I’d put some money on the next bizarre thing that ...
10 May 2010
ONE MORE Parliament session has ended and once again it is time for the aam aadmi to wonder if they have wasted their time and ...
03 May 2010
CELL phone recorders, voice loggers, off-the-air monitoring devices, intercepted emails — the latest James Bond blockbuster? No. It’s just another day in the life of ...
26 Apr 2010
WHAT do you do when things are not going as planned, or worse, show signs of falling apart? Order a cabinet reshuffle. That’s what Sonia ...
19 Apr 2010
THE MESSAGE to both the Congress and the Prime Minister appears to be stern, loud and clear: your foes are known, now choose your friends. ...
12 Apr 2010
UNION home minister P. Chidambaram has acted with honour and integrity and set an example by offering to resign after the massacre of 76 security ...
05 Apr 2010
TODAY, senior Union ministers are to meet with the leaders of the opposition parties to sort out differences over the contentious Women’s Reservation Bill. Over ...
29 Mar 2010
WHO GOES there? Friend or foe? Indo-US relations have been on the up and up ever since Atal Bihari Vajpayee went on an official visit ...
22 Mar 2010
SOMETIME in May, when UPA II completes a year in office, Manmohan Singh will do something he has done only once in his five and ...
15 Mar 2010
THERE’S considerable speculation surrounding the longevity of the government following the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha last week and almost ...