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In the Indian narrative of the 26 ministers of defence till date, only Jaswant Singh could claim any functional and emotional affinity with the military. (Representational image)

India's run with raksha mantri post

Sadly since Independence, India's tryst with this sensitive post has been increasingly time serving, patronising or...

23 Oct 2018 9:03 PM GMT

Vasundhara Raje

Cong fielded Manvendra against me as it couldn't find any other...

Raje remark came a few hours after Cong released its second list, fielding Manvendra Singh against her from Jhalrapatan...

17 Nov 2018 12:05 PM GMT

Ms Shantha had secured 3,85,204 votes. The Ballari Lok Sabha seat has been won by the BJP for the last three elections since 2004 and prior to that Congress won this seat for 13 times since 1952. (Photo: PTI)

Congress releases 2nd list for Raj, Manvendra Singh to take on...

Manvendra Singh, a former BJP MLA from Sheo, in September quit the saffron party to join the Congress ahead of the...

17 Nov 2018 11:56 AM GMT

The number of total candidates announced by the party for the Lok Sabha polls has reached 293. (Photo: Twitter/ANI)

2019 LS polls: Ashok Gehlot, Jaswant Singh's sons in Cong's latest...

The party's latest list has 19 candidates for Rajasthan and six each for Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

29 March 2019 3:09 AM GMT

Jaswant Singh was new to diplomacy on the world stage but he proved more than equal to the task. PTI Photo

Anand K. Sahay | Jaswant Singh, a gentleman politician and an astute...

Contemplating the life he lived after he is gone, it is hard to see him in any role other than that of a politician at...

2 Oct 2020 12:02 PM GMT

Jaswant Singh, who passed on Sept 27, 2020. (PTI file photo)

Former union minister Jaswant Singh dies

A former Army officer, Jaswant Singh had been ailing for a long time

27 Sep 2020 6:33 AM GMT

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no good Taliban or bad Taliban , and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India's real problem on Taliban is its Pak...

India's first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

23 Aug 2021 10:49 PM GMT

Though, Singh did not comment on his future course of action. It is speculated that he might join the Congress after a meeting with Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: File)

Ahead of Rajasthan polls, Jaswant Singh, son Manvendra quit BJP

The ties between Jaswant Singh's family and Vasundhara Raje strained during her first tenure as CM.

22 Sep 2018 1:41 PM GMT

Hamid Ansaris second five-year term as the vice-president ends on Thursday. (Photo: AP/File)

Democracy survives: When loss' isn't defeat'

Today India is deeply polarised, fractured and an increasingly fragmented polity with an ongoing consolidation of the...

16 Aug 2017 7:05 PM GMT

The income-tax department had booked Mr Bhandari under the new act, called the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015. (Photo: PTI)

Long-term lenders a must for India's industrial growth

The bad loans in the Indian banking system have risen by nearly 6.5 times to Rs 6.15 lakh crore.

3 Aug 2017 10:20 PM GMT