Prime Minister Morarji Desai had reportedly stated that he cannot spare Vajpayee from the government. General secretary of the Janata in Parliament, Digvijay Narain Singh, said Desai told him that Vajpayee could not be spared for party work.

Mexico’s new president, the country’s first left-leaning leader in decades, needs to deliver on growth and poverty alleviation.

PM needs to speak to the people about making vital distinctions while reading social media. He must, because he will be heard.

Institutions like the UGC are meant to embody this principle and are designed to act as buffers, insulating universities from the massive financial and political power of the state.

In approving the LIC-IDBI stake sale, the LIC board and the insurance regulator have gone against their mandates.

Calculated release of videos of surgical strikes serves political, not military, ends.

Maharashtra lynching cannot be blamed on social media alone. It calls for a political and administrative response.

It is now time for the Indian team to step up, like major hockey nations do. World Cup will be the acid test.

Uttarakhand teacher’s plea, response to it, reveal government’s attitude to educators.

Atal on Janata crisis External Affairs Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee stressed the need for strengthening the party. He said if necessary, he was willing to leave the government and do party work. He said he had conveyed his willingness to the prime minister also and expected that Charan Singh and his followers would not act […]

Loss of mature trees cannot be made up by planting new ones. Forest Department shows how not to grow a forest.

For boosting economic efficiency and investor confidence, it must move towards fewer rates, a simpler and stabler regime.

The Jana Sangh group in the Janata Party is unhappy over the developments in the party. But when it comes to specific issues, the group appears to be divided.

It’s part of the party’s strategy to attract Dalits and marginalised communities.

Drug regulator’s decision to revise last year's ceiling on paediatric drug underlines price controls can be counterproductive.

A massive enterprise formalisation is taking place, and one year of GST has given the process a boost.

Delhi must deal with Trump’s hardening approach — and deepening conflict between its closest partners in West Asia.

It is in India’s interests to be one of the adults in the room and stand up for an open trade order. True, India is not the US or China but is big enough to count... What the world requires is a coalition of sensible countries that will anchor world trade while a few countries disrupt world trade.

Sushma Swaraj was crudely and unfairly trolled by the Hindutva brigade because a Lucknow passport officer was summarily transferred on the basis of a tweet that he humiliated a Hindu-Muslim couple.

The Opposition has the one-item agenda of hating Modi. As in 1971, when the cry of the Old Congress was ‘Indira Hatao’, now it is ‘Modi Hatao’. Then Indira Gandhi said ‘Garibi Hatao’ ,and Modi’s refrain of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ is on similar lines.

So can Modi do anything in the next few months that would restore the lustre that once made him seem undefeatable? There are those who wander about these days predicting that he will do something melodramatic and irreparable like prohibition.

When it came to Charan Singh, there were three ministers, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, George Fernandes and Biju Patnaik, who advocated a softer line

To make trains run ‘on time’, Railways has changed the rules. It is a model that can fix India’s problems

Pakistan needs to acknowledge a grim reality: It faces international isolation because of its security policies