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New Year 2014 has rung in. As usual there are great expectations from 2014. What has been happening and what is likely to happen in 2014 has been prepared by everything that has happened in 2013 and the years before. As they say nothing comes of nothing; Nothing ever does.

The Aam Aadmi Party, the new blue-eyed boy of the public, has decided to try its luck by contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha polls to expand its base. Living in clouds after the unprecedented victory in the Delhi Assembly polls last month, the AAP wants to encash its success by going national.

LUCKNOW: The manner in which the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is gaining momentum and making inroads in different parts of the state has unnerved the major political parties in Uttar Pradesh.

The transformational change under way in India’s political scene, bringing people’s concerns to the fore in governance, that has been demonstrated in the national capital, has set new challenges to the long-established parties, ruling at the Centre and states.

New Delhi: Malaysia has invited Indian investments in its proposed five Super Economic Corridors, namely Northern Corridor Economic Region, Iskandar Economic Corridor, East Coast Economic Region, Sabah Development Corridor and Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh has complimented the Saudi Arabian Government alongwith the Indian ministries of external affairs and overseas Indian affairs for resolving the issue of Indian expatriates in the Arab kingdom.

New Delhi: A day before the formal inauguration of the gala conference of Overseas Indians - 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - India allured its youth diaspora to be partners in country's trade, industry, entrepreneurship and social activities.

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.