The Iranian café owner selling paninis near the Pompidou Centre, Paris' modern art museum, had a simple take on the "law prohibiting the concealing of the face in public space". It's about politics,
Political, and non-political, circles in Kolkata are abuzz with rumours that Mamata Banerjee has started finalising her Cabinet, keen as she is to get cracking from the first day after coming to power
No one can say that Mamata Banerjee does not care for Bengalis. The lady who not too long had declared herself to be a citizen, and not resident, of West Bengal, was at the building collapse site in D
At a time when the Indian media is in a state of collective swoon, also known as the Obama effect, a note of reality. A permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council is anything but certain. I
Even as we wait endlessly for the results of the Bihar Assembly elections, Barack Obama gets a swift hammering in the US mid-term elections, where votes were cast, counted and the President’s fat
There was a time, not too long ago, when Altaf Thakur, a Kashmiri Muslim, was denied treatment for his child by a doctor at a Srinagar hospital because he belonged to the Bharatiya Janata Party. From
READY TO VOTE
Rural, and some parts of urban Kashmir will vote, and vote with a gusto. Last Tuesday's record turnout of 71% in the first phase was just the curtain-raiser. Far off in Kupwara district
People's Conference leader Sajjad Gani Lone's recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi "has united" Omar Abdullah's National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party against h
Mehbooba Mufti, a Member of Parliament, does not want to be Chief Minister if her People's Democratic Party comes to power in Jammu and Kashmir. The CM will be her father, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the P
Separatist leader Sajjad Gani Lone's political party, People's Conference, is fighting the Assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir after 27 years. Lone, the son of the slain Abdul Gani Lone, is a ca