Politics appears to have kicked in even before the high-profile all-party delegation led in all likelihood by Union home minister P.

It’s a tranquillity that’s terribly misleading. For beneath the tranquillity and silence on the streets imposed by an unending cycle of curfew lurks the turmoil.

As the Centre waits with anxiety and apprehension the high court verdict on the Babri Masjid title suit expected on September 24, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has decided to abide

The government’s hunt for a new chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is yet to see fruition.

A salary hike of close to 300 per cent would leave most jumping with joy. But our country’s MPs are fretting and fuming and demanding more. Nothing less than a 500 per cent hike, as recommended by the joint committee on salaries and allowances of MPs, would suffice, they say.

Absentee railway minister Mamata Banerjee who also heads the Trinamul Congress isn’t willing to take things lying down.

Amidst the hype and hoopla over Jaipur’s Jantar Mantar being conferred World Heritage Site status by Unesco recently, the over a century old Matheran light railway’s failed bid to also acquire this prestigious tag may not have hit the headlines. But the fact is that India decided to withdraw its application seeking this toy train’s inscription as a World Heritage Site at the last minute — and thereby hangs a tale.

It might be one of the oldest libraries in the country and a repository for rare and old books and documents.

The Railways certainly isn’t chugging along smoothly when it comes to executing a plan that would ensure the safe running of trains. So its been slammed in a performance audit conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for failing to meet many of the targets set by its Corporate Safety Plan, the first phase of which included the period from 2003 to 2008.

The Popular Front of India (PFI), a radical Islamic outfit which has shot into the limelight after some of its members were allegedly found involved in hacking off the palm of a college lecturer in Ke