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The Bharatiya Janata Party has reason to be greatly pleased with the results of the recent Assembly elections in four Northern and Central states. It swept 163 of Rajasthan’s 200 seats, taking an unprecedented 12-plus percentage-point lead over the Congress.

There is an uncanny similarity between the Aam Admi Party (AAP) and the communists who came to power in West Bengal in 1967. It may be recalled that 1967 was the year when the Congress suffered major jolts as power passed into the hands of its opponents – the Left in West Bengal and Kerala and the Samyukta Vidhayak Dals (SVD) in U.P., Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

New Delhi: Former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani has urged regional powers to begin dialogue to prevent Afghanistan from slipping into a civil war situation after the US pullout later this year.

New Delhi: With Japan intending to prepare itself for a defence shield in East Asia, it has found a reliable partner in India. Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera is on a four-day visit to India since January 5.

New Delhi: After almost a two decade the India's Presidential Palace - Rashtrapati Bhavan is hosting the stay of a Head of the State.

It is evident that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quietly played the game of foiling ‘All The Rahul Show’ at the gala 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas beginning from 7 January. Singh deliberately used the official venue – National Media Centre – on last Friday to declare Rahul Gandhi's 'outstanding credentials' for being the prime ministerial candidate from the Congress party for the forthcoming 2014 polls. This has come under a barrage of criticisms.

The Gregorian calendar says it is January now, so for a very many people, it is a new year. One near-constant thing about New Year days, birthdays, 100th anniversaries and the like, is that nothing is very different before and after that day. That does not stop us from making New Year resolutions or seminars about the special relevance of some dead man’s centennial. While each one of us may harbour private dreams about the year 2014 of Common Era, it is events and processes happening around us that would actually shape the year.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the dramatic entry of KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala into the State Cabinet as the Home Minister revive the electoral fortunes of the Congress?

New Delhi: India has no intention to close down its Mission in South Sudan at present A team of senior Indian officials led by Sandeep Kumar Joint Secretary (West Asia & North Africa) in the Ministry of External Affairs left for Juba on Saturday to assess the situation there, sources in the Indian External Affairs Ministry said.

New Delhi: India gives another blow to US in diplomacy in retaliation to the harrasment of its envoy, Divyani in New York. It has asked the US Embassy in Delhi not to screen any movies at the American Center without obtaining a licence.