Stories by Rupam Jain Nair
BJP is challenging Islamic “triple talaq” practice which allows a man to divorce his wife by saying 'talaq' 3 times.
Updated 20 Dec, 2016 01:36pm
Officials privy to the demonetisation plan were sworn to utmost secrecy.
Updated 10 Dec, 2016 10:07am
Mayawati is emerging as Modi’s chief challenger in a key state election set for early next year.
Updated 25 Oct, 2016 11:23am
The Congress party run by the fabled Gandhi dynasty suffered humiliation last week when it lost Assam to the BJP.
Updated 24 May, 2016 11:20am
As Modi approaches the halfway point of his tenure, the leader of the world’s biggest democracy has not had it easy.
Updated 14 May, 2016 12:37pm
NEW DELHI: After a drubbing in a state poll in November, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to overhaul his...
Published 31 Dec, 2015 06:44am
BISARA: The murder by a Hindu mob of a Muslim man rumoured to have slaughtered a cow has thrown a spotlight on the...
Published 06 Oct, 2015 06:51am
PM Modi has chipped away at the dynasty's grip on India's post-colonial history.
Updated 28 Sep, 2015 09:16am
Hard-line Hindu politicians impatient with Modi’s refusal to champion their cause are starting to advance their agendas.
Updated 04 Feb, 2015 08:46am
Modi’s style also lessens dissent from potential rivals, helping him capture power to a degree not seen since Indira.
Updated 14 Nov, 2014 07:04am
NEW DELHI: An acid attack left four sisters in north India with burns, police said on Wednesday, in a particularly brutal example of what is a growing problem in South Asia.
Published 04 Apr, 2013 05:02am
NEW DELHI: They may never know her name, but the protesters were determined that the gang-rape victim would serve as a “tipping point” in the battle to end a culture of violence against women in India
Published 29 Dec, 2012 09:05pm
NEW DELHI: When Sonali Mukherjee spurned the advances of three of her fellow students, they responded by melting her face with acid.
Published 24 Dec, 2012 02:56am
NEW DELHI: India's bitter colonial past hangs heavily over the government's renewed drive to open the inward-looking economy to foreign investment, even 65 years after independence, analysts say.
Published 10 Dec, 2012 12:03am
NEW DELHI: Fifty years ago India tasted bitter defeat at the hands of China in a brief border war, and the memory still spooks New Delhi’s leaders as they try to compete with their powerful Asian neighbour.
Published 19 Oct, 2012 10:31pm
NEW DELHI Life for 42-year-old Ashok Malik, a hardline Hindu activist who lives on the outskirts of New Delhi, is...
Published 23 Sep, 2010 12:00am
NEW DELHI R.K. Chudawala, a diamond merchant in New Delhi, added sparkle to his wedding last year by hiring top...
Published 17 Aug, 2010 12:00am
NEW DELHI The elegant Indian scarf known as a “dupatta” is a symbol of female modesty, but in the right hands it is...
Published 22 Jun, 2010 12:00am
NEW DELHI India`s teeming cities, where even the living jostle for space, are running out of room for the dead....
Published 15 Jun, 2010 12:00am
NEW DELHI In the past five years, Maoist rebels have emerged as the most potent threat to India`s internal stability...
Published 29 May, 2010 12:00am
