Celebrity status comes with a risk. The high-profile chief executive of ICICI Bank Ltd. Chanda Kochhar, long considered a role model for women in business, is in the eye of a storm after allegations that her husband may have benefitted from the actions of a borrower of the bank.

The 8-year-old's ghastly death - the worst possible end for a young child - highlights the growing communal tension in Jammu. The dangers of allowing it to surge for political benefit are immense.

Listen, politicians: Nobody wants you to stop eating. Have breakfast. Have two. Fill yourselves up. But then get in a full day working on the country's problems. That's what everyone wants and needs, not publicity photos of you skipping lunch.

Mamata Banerjee's posturing as the anti-BJP "crusader" with her spokesmen in parliament waxing eloquent about her "acceptability and experience" has been exposed as utterly hollow self-promotion.

The highest judicial body of the country, namely the Supreme Court of India, is in deep crisis. Never before in our history have dissensions within the court come out so openly in the public domain.

The BJP Dalit MPs remonstrating the party publicly offers a gigantic leg up for the opposition in its proclamations that Modi's is an anti-Dalit party.

Nitish Kumar's supporters argue that his immediate clamping down on BJP leaders linked to last month's riots evidences his determination to put the BJP in its place if it crosses lines he has drawn an is unwilling to redraw.

In an interview with the news program "60 Minutes," Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said of Saudi Arabia before 1979, "We were living a very normal life like the rest of the Gulf countries. Women were driving cars, there were movie theaters in Saudi Arabia, women worked everywhere.

For a lot of us who have been involved in some capacity in the wildlife and conservation scenario in India, Salman Khan's conviction came as a victory. Why? Because poaching is a heinous crime and whoever commits the offence should be tried and charged under the full extent of the law. Over the years, a lack of concern over poaching, low rates of c...

You see, I used to have a serious people problem. The mere thought of making a humorous quip in a tense public setting, quite frankly, terrified me. At least, until I took up a challenge about a year ago.

I yield to none in acknowledging Narendra Modi's expertise in fake news. For surely no one in our contemporary politics has propagated and profited more from fake news than Modi has. Three incidents involving me would help me rest my case.

From being talked about as a possible Prime Ministerial candidate (talk that he fanned assiduously for years), Nitish Kumar, the Chief minister of Bihar, has reduced himself to Indian politics' nowhere man.

Since the number of characters in Twitter is limited, I imagined that the scope for mischief would also be limited. How wrong was I?

The Opposition has supported the protest, didn't condemn the violence and seems to have extended cadre support to make the protest more macabre.

How can the West Bengal Government stop elected representatives of political parties from visiting and meeting the people of Asansol and other affected areas? If the Governor and MPs are not given the right to visit the people of these areas,what right does the common person have in West Bengal?