India has an impressive record of women’s participation in politics and the success of panchayats has often been referred to as a ‘silent revolution’ within the democratic decentralisation process, a

India has a good track record of women political participation and the success of panchayats has often been referred to as a 'silent revolution' within the democratic decentralisation process, a senior US diplomat said here on Friday.

With a somewhat unusual title for his latest book, Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century, it was but natural for its author, former minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor,

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday hit out at her detractors whom she described as spineless.

Only a day earlier she had shot off a protest letter to Union home minister P. Chida

Ousted former CPM Ernakulam district secretary Gopi Kottamurikkal has said he abides by the party’s decision, but vowed to continue his fight against “criminals out to destroy the party.”

Gopi told t

YSR Congress Legislature Party leader Y.S. Vijayalakshmi on Friday said her party would play the role of a responsible Opposition, taking up people’s problems as its main agenda.

She thanked the ele

The state BJP is preparing the ground for a cordial resolution of the leadership imbroglio with senior RSS leader and party national organising secretary Satish set to arrive here soon for talks with

With Dimple Yadav elected to the Lok Sabha, the issue of dynastic politics has again come to the fore. Dimple, wife of UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, will be the sixth member from the family of Sam

With the climax in campaigning for the byelections approaching and YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy under arrest, political parties are now hammering out finer details of the final phase of t

Nepal's warring political parties said on Sunday they had failed to narrow their differences sufficiently to agree on a new constitution for the Himalayan republic before a midnight deadline, plunging