THE Idol Wing of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Tamil Nadu Police has sought the immediate repeal of amendments made in 1993 to ...

THE Congress, which suffered its biggest electoral reverse in Delhi on account of the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) stunning debut in December 2013, is ...

India’s present political plight is because the political class, lawyers and judges ignore the British Constitutional ethos on which Ambedkar modelled the Constitution. Three books that help us understand that ethos.

The Congress government in Maharashtra is walking a political tightrope in an election year as disregarding the judicial commission report on the Adarsh housing scam, which has indicted four former Chief Ministers, will be suicidal.

Security at the Sri Varadaraja Perumal temple at Suthamalli village in Ariyalur district is grossly inadequate, according to the Idol Wing police, and ...

A REPORT posted on www.chasingaphrodite.com, a blog that claims to be on the hunt for looted antiquities in world museums, details how Subash Chandra ...

OLDER patients at high risk of heart disease who follow a Mediterranean diet rich in extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) do not need to restrict calories, ...

Interview with Prakash Karat, general secretary, CPI(M).

January 4, 2014, marks 47 years since Atiya Fyzee Rahamin's death and her bequest to the Karachi municipal corporation, and 137 years since her birth; but neither all the time, nor all the changes and progress has produced the courage that would be needed to reclaim her legacy.

AN international team of astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia have discovered a unique ...

THE elections to Delhi’s Assembly have always attracted attention disproportionate to the National Capital Region’s size. It is said that the Assembly ...

JOSE SARAMAGO’S riveting novel Blindness, written in 1995, opens with cars waiting at a traffic light. When the light turns from red to amber to ...

After its heady success in the Delhi Assembly election, the AAP is eyeing Maharashtra and Haryana, prioritising agrarian issues and putting together a broad coalition of people’s movements.

By taking definite action immediately after coming to power, the AAP has shown that its promises are not part of mere populist propaganda but are well-researched, people-centric plans.

The problem with the AAP’s political discourse is that it does not attack the structures of property and power underlying the problems in Indian society.

The BJP is seething with anger at being denied the opportunity to assume power in Delhi. It now plans to rework its strategy, learning from the AAP brand of political mobilisation.

Interview with Arvind Kejriwal.

A REPORT posted on www.chasingaphrodite.com, a blog that claims to be on the hunt for looted antiquities in world museums, details how Subash Chandra ...

The arrest of the Indian American art dealer Subash Chandra Kapoor in Tamil Nadu in 2012 and the subsequent investigations by the Idol Wing of the State police unravel a global network of “agents, thieves and smugglers” that targets ageless artefacts in disused and dilapidated temples.

THE Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supremo Bimal Gurung’s rejoining the recently formed Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) Sabha, after resigning ...

THE following was related by one of the petitioners in the Zakia Jafri case on the 2002 Gujarat riots, which the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate’s ...

The affidavits filed by State governments in the Supreme Court in the coal block allocations case indicate that the Centre considerably curtailed their role in the decision-making process and ignored their concerns over key issues.

Interview with Elias Jaua, Foreign Minister of Venezuela.

A leaked British government proposal to cap immigration from E.U. member-states has provoked fury across Europe, with the U.K.’s allies accusing it of betraying the E.U. charter.

AFTER the severe steppes of Kazakhstan and the stark mountains of the Kyrgyz Republic, the India-Central Asia Foundation (ICAF) expedition through ...

The country seems all set to implode once again as hostilities between two major ethnic groups, one supporting President Salva Kiir and the other backing the former Vice-President, escalate.

Although India has taken a tough stand against the U.S. over the arrest of its diplomat Devyani Khobragade in New York, the government’s muted response to other provocations such as spying shows that it is keen to remain America’s “global strategic partner”.

Violence has become routine across Iraq as an instrument of political power, and the situation has been aggravated by the spillover effect of the Syrian civil war.

The problem with the AAP’s political discourse is that it does not attack the structures of property and power underlying the problems in Indian society.

The BJP is seething with anger at being denied the opportunity to assume power in Delhi. It now plans to rework its strategy, learning from the AAP brand of political mobilisation.

Interview with Arvind Kejriwal.