Tamil Nadu prides itself on its political theatre. From M.G. Ramachandran to Jayalalithaa, film stars have long strutted off the silver...

For more than six decades a needle-nosed silhouette has defined the Indian Air Force (IAF). The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 inducted in 1963...

Leh, which is synonymous with serenity, its monasteries and mountain vistas than for violence, has been transformed into a scene of...

Few umpires are remembered as warmly as the players they judged. Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird, who has aged 92, was the rare exception who...

The recent decision of the Karnataka-based KudalasangamaPanchamasaliPeetha Trust’s decision to expel a Lingayat seer for consorting with...

As India dons its festive finery, the air hums with the anticipation of Navratri, the nine-day festival venerating Maa Durga in her nine...

Rahul Gandhi has turned the charge of alleged ‘vote theft’ into his newest political prop. In recent weeks the Congress Leader of...

India’s longest-running insurgency appears to have reached its end. The statement of Abhay, spokesman of the Communist Party of India...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the milestone of 75 years. In a country where political fortunes often fluctuate, sustaining...

The Supreme Court’s interim order staying several key provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, marks another chapter in a familiar...

India’s tennis players are not often the subject of national pride. While cricket dominates the public imagination, the country’s few...

It is shocking that India, the proud custodian of the world’s last population of Asiatic lions, is witnessing such a high toll of its...

India’s men’s hockey team delivered a stirring performance at the Asia Cup in Rajgir, Bihar, asserting its dominance in the continent and...

The election of C.P. Radhakrishnan as India’s 15th Vice-President comes as less a surprise than a calculated consolidation of political...

The streets of Kathmandu have turned into a battlefield, as young Nepalis clashed violently with police over the government’s attempt to...

India prides itself on its secular Constitution which has been so designed to accommodate its bewildering plurality. Yet, the desecration...

A fresh pact between New Delhi and two powerful Kuki insurgent groups finally opens a narrow path towards peace in Manipur. The Kuki...

Few things unsettle Maharashtra’s politics more than the volatile interplay of caste and quotas. The Maratha agitation for reservations,...

The Maratha agitation that threatened to paralyse Mumbai has ended, and with it comes a reminder of Devendra Fadnavis’s political craft....

South Mumbai likes to imagine itself as the custodian of Mumbai’s heritage. Its colonial facades, art deco apartment blocks and seafront...