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Only a few years ago, the Union Minister of Railways had claimed in the Parliament of India that they made railway journey safe, though the trains were running late in the country. The claim had come in reply to a question as to why trains were being run late. The Minister had blamed worsening of the railway tracks and the systems due to negligence in refurbishing them in the earlier UPA regime before 2014. The minister also had claimed that Modi government was working hard to have a secure railway system, but the Balasore deadly train accident proved it wrong.

For nine long years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been dictating political actions in India, but the expected opposition meet will not only redefine the nature of the political discourse of the country, but would set a completely new political narrative, engineering a different political activism and vision in the public domain.

New Delhi: Playing to a plan, India scored their second successive win as they overpowered spirited Malaysia 2-1 in the Women’s Junior Hockey Asia Cup in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan on Monday.

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen’s campaign in the Thailand Open event came to an end after he lost his semi -final contest against world No. 5. Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand in Bangkok on Saturday.

During his 4-day India visit, Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal completed formal engagements with the Indian leadership and is visiting places of interest. Going by the importance traditionally attached to Nepal's relationship with India, Dahal's India visit is bound to be watched and analysed closely in India and Nepal. And political leaders on both sides are acutely aware of this. Given this, the Indian and Nepalese delegations hardly gave any room for conjectures. MoUs related to hydropower and connectivity were signed and exchanged. It seems the entire visit was designed to lower the expectations from each other on both sides. However, such measures go a long way in putting relationships on a practical plane.

New Delhi: Striker Annu led the charge by scoring six- goals as India decimated Uzbekistan 22-0 in their opening match of the Junior Women’s hockey Asia Cup in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan on Sunday.

New Delhi: Goalkeeper Krishna Pathak's stunning heroics in the shootout helped India pull off a stellar 4-2 shootout win against Great Britain to bag the bonus point after the two teams drew 4-4 in regulation time in the FIH Hockey Pro League at the Lee Valley Stadium in London on Saturday.

The June 12 Patna conclave of opposition parties is keenly awaited. Finally, opposition unity looks a possibility. Rahul Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge are giving it a miss, but somebody from the Congress will be deputed. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is in the United States taking pot-shots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular and certain peculiarities of India and Indians in general.

The Law Commission has taken a political stand in its report about sedition rather than a policy stand, which a body of its very nature was expected to do. The commission’s non-statutory status does not preclude it from having an independent mind, which the present panel under the chairmanship of retired high court chief justice Rituraj Avasthi has regrettably preferred to forego. Its recommendations on the offence of sedition, widely considered a colonial relic, sound more like His Master’s Voice rather than a well-considered view of an expert panel.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completed his Ninth Year as Prime Minister. Look at how he has already left his imprint on India’s history, forcing a shift in how politics in practiced and governance in delivered.