Making a fervent pitch for depoliticisation of Indian railways, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi has spoken about the need to give the public transport a professional outlook and to ensure continuity i

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s act of going public with her conversation with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee could help her and her party, the Trinamul Congress, to burnish thei

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have taken Mr Jairam Ramesh out of the environment ministry, but the latter continues to wear his green credentials on his sleeve. Ask West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

The alarming regularity with which Indian women working as housemaids in the Gulf and West Asian countries are subjected to inhumane treatment, and at times physical, mental and sexual torture, by the

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton interspersed her conversations in New Delhi with “ifs” and “buts”, conveying to a discerning Indian audience that the United States was hedging on its commitments and, in the process, reinforcing a suspicion that the second edition of the India-US strategic dialogue was long on intent but short on strategy.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ambitious nuclear energy programme is at risk with Japan indicating it will suspend negotiations with India and other countries for the sale of nuclear power equipment and technology.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made it clear that peace talks with Pakistan will not be disrupted in the wake of latest Mumbai blasts.

Burhanuddin Rabbani, who heads a panel which has the Afghanistan government’s mandate to negotiate peace with the Taliban, will not mind using the good offices of India for finding a political solution to the strife in his country.

The latest serial blasts in Mumbai may or may not be the handiwork of Pakistani elements inimical to rapprochement with India, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made it categorical that peace talks with Pakistan will not be disrupted irrespective of its perpetrators or their motivations.

India will discuss Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s peace overtures to the Taliban when it hosts Prof. Burhanuddin Rabbani, head of the Afghan High Peace Council, this week.