Gone are the days when politicians hailing from Rajasthan represented themselves as a non-controversial class of politicians in the national arena. One after the other, senior leaders from the state (all of royal descent) have made unceremonious exits from various positions and portfolios. First Kunwar...

The imposing Hotel Peterhoff amid the hills of Shimla town, the venue of the three-day brainstorming session of BJP has a story of its own to narrate. It was at this hotel where the trial of Nathuram Godse, the killer of Mahatma Gandhi, was held in the year 1948. Around 61 years after the main opposition...

The first budget of the new Congress-led UPA government was debated on for 81.20 hours, the maximum time spent debating a budget in over 15 years. According to PRS Legislative Research, the last time a budget debate lasted for over 80 hours was in 1992 when the budget was debated for 89.90 hours. The...

With the first budget session of the second term of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance or UPA government over (and the Women's Reservation Bill yet to see the light of day), it would be interesting to take a look at the level of participation of women MPs in this session. According to data...

With the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM's strength in the Lok Sabha drastically reduced from 43 seats to just 16, the party has had to give up several bungalows previously allocated to its MPs. One such bungalow is the one on Windsor Place, right opposite Le Meridien in the heart of Delhi...

The Congress chief in Uttar Pradesh - Rita Bahuguna Joshi, who finds herself in the midst of a raging political controversy, found support from an unexpected quarter on Monday. Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh held a video conference in New Delhi (he is admitted in a hospital in Singapore) to pledge...

One of the few surprises in the union cabinet of the newly elected central government has been the inclusion of C P Joshi - the party state president in Rajasthan. This low profile leader has been credited for the spectacular performance of the Congress in Rajasthan in the recent Lok Sabha election,...

The 15 th Lok Sabha is younger than the previous one. Around 15% of the newly elected members are in the age group of 25-40 years, as against only 6.3% in the 14 th Lok Sabha, data from PRS Legislative Research reveals. Similarly, the number of members of the Lower House falling in the age group of 71...

Like the average hack, i'm curious who's going to take what portfolio in this post-election "yes-we-can" Delhi.. Specifically, what's going to happen in science and technology. Unlike the powerful Home ministry and the remunerative telecom industry, science and technology isn't...

One of the biggest stories of the 2009 Lok Sabha election has been the disastrous performance of the Left in its bastion - West Bengal, where the CPM has ruled for over three decades. The Left this time won only 15 of the 42 parliamentary seats in the state, compared to its sweeping performance in 2004...