Sources said that party president Sonia Gandhi made it clear that “the leadership agrees on principle that they must fight the BJP and the RSS over the question of nationalism.” On Wednesday evening, the party staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha before Ms. Ira ....

“There are a fair amount of government interventions that help the relatively better-off in society. In many cases, this takes the form of explicit subsidisation, which is surprisingly substantial in magnitude,” the Survey said in a provocatively titled chap ....

 The police action against JNU students and the conditions leading to Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide are not isolated incidents, but part of a larger project to change India into a "Hindu Rashtra", CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on ....

A decision to this effect was taken in the board meeting on February 1, and it comes in the backdrop of the Urban Development Department (UDD) issuing draft rules for regulation of cable laying in the city, which ironically explicitly prohibits over-head communication c ....

Interestingly, Mr. Modi singled out announcements to strengthen rail connectivity in Manipur and Mizoram, saying that it was “gladdening” as connectivity in the northeast is “one of our core priorities.” The RSS is especially keen to expand it ....

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Chidambaram said it was entirely “possible that there are some students whose sympathies lie with the Maoist movement, but unless there is incitement to violence, it is not sedition”. “The slogan Pakistan Zindabad, etc. is ....

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned on Thursday while Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani was in the middle of a reply during a short-duration discussion on the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and the filing of sedition cases against students of Jawaharlal Nehru ....

 The JNU administration has called a meeting of the top university officials to discuss the resurfacing of five students on the campus who are wanted by Delhi Police in connection with a sedition case. A team of police officials from the South district has been camp ....

As the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, a 28-year-old student leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University, mobilised a massive crowd of demonstrators on the streets of Delhi on Wednesday, the left parties construed it as a victory against the BJP government. But back in the campus, ther ....

Supporting the right to dissent and political disagreement in JNU, U.S. Ambassador Richard Verma on Monday described “diversity and debates” as the “hallmark” of academic life in the United States and India. “Both Indian and American Constit ....