The FDI decision has created a crisis that everyone but the Congress could have foreseen

Historian Ramachandra Guha has stirred up a controversy with his suggestion of a late 1940s collusion between the Left and Muslim communalists in Hyderabad, but the facts don’t justify his claim

Sunni Sufis have rejected Darul Uloom’s fatwa calling on Muslims to stop celebrating Prophet Muhammad’s birthday

This critical divide within the Muslim electorate threatens to change old equations in Uttar Pradesh

A record number of serving and retired bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab prepare to contest upcoming Assembly elections in the two states next year

Make no mistake, no one other than a Nehru-Gandhi has ever got the better of Pranabda in a battle within the Congress

They do exist. And have been growing more vocal by the day. What this says about a minority that has been under pressure in Gujarat

Why the Congress cannot do without her. And why that presents her with yet another political challenge

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi heads the parliamentary Standing Committee in charge of formulating India’s Lokpal Bill. The committee has submitted reports on two other pieces of anti-graft legislation: the Whistleblower and Judicial Accountability bills. He spoke to Dhirendra K Jha on how the Lokpal Bill, together with the two other bills already cleared by the parliamentary panel, will serve as an important bulwark against corruption

In a scandal typical of Bihar, money was sanctioned to repair over a thousand kilometres of zamindari embankments that did not exist. Nobody knows where the funds went