The current financial crisis has raised several questions regarding the future of capitalism. What will be the shape of capitalism in the coming decades? Will it undergo radical changes or will the changes be only marginal? Great Depression and...

India’s national elections came to New Delhi today, so I strolled into a neighborhood polling station to take a look. A small detail blew me away: India’s poll workers have printouts that include the photos of every voter in their precinct....

Thursday’s double-header pits the Rajasthan Royals against the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Chennai Super Kings against the Kings XI Punjab at Centurion. With three points separating the top seven teams the race for the top four places heats...

If the Congress thinks that after the Lok Sabha elections the Left parties will support it, it is living in a fool’s paradise, said Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Mr. Karat was addressing an election...

BATKHELA: The Taliban will not lay down their arms until the military operation is halted in the region, Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad’s spokesman Ameer Izzat said on Monday. We hold the government responsible...

Nobody would have thought there was any public interest left in Bofors, a quintessential 20th century corruption scandal involving top political figures in India and Sweden. But the ghosts of Bofors have a habit of returning to haunt the functionaries...

The CPI-M and the BJP, although poles apart, are speaking the same language, saying the next Prime Minister should be from the Lok Sabha. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who the Congress has named as its prime ministerial candidate for this general...

India will vote on April 30 in the third phase on Lok Sabha elections and campaigning has intensified. With voting over for almost half the Lok Sabha seats, political parties are going all out to ensure that their top leaders address as many election...

India’s general election, which began last week, is as full of variety and dauntingly complicated as the country itself. The polling spreads over five phases lasting a month, with 714 million voters using more than 828,000 polling booths and 1.3m...

On Sunday she did what Narendra Modi and other BJP Sonia Gandhi Now, Sonia Gandhi seems to be trying her hand at ‘Ram’ politics. (PTI Photo) hardliners had bypassed in Faizabad or elsewhere during their election campaign. Speaking from the...