March For Unity

The next big opposition show of unity will be on March 1 sponsored by Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK. The occasion is the 70th birthday of Chief Minister MK Stalin and the DMK is planning a huge public meeting in Chennai.

United in the rain, world leaders walked slowly up the Champs-Elysees in Paris to mark a century since the end of World War I -- but there were two notable absences, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The line of black-clad leaders was reminiscent of another moment of unity: after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo jihadist attack, when senior officials from mor...

Pravin Nishad, the candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur, on Sunday spoke of a "bigger alliance" if the Samajwadi Party, which has pulled off an electoral arrangement with arch rival Mayawati, wins. Under the pact, for the first time in 25 years, the arch rivals are on the same side to stop the BJP march - an understanding that wa...

A rally organised by some activists in Mumbai has turned into a staging ground of sorts for the opposition parties to use as a springboard for a multi-pronged offensive against the Modi government, in what is also being seen as a hint at developing a pan-India opposition unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2019

A march on Republic Day organised by social activists in Mumbai is turning into a show of strength by the opposition ahead of the Budget session, on the invitation of Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. It is being seen as another attempt at building a united opposition front to take on the BJP in parliament and test the ground for a coa...

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday justified his order to open fire on karsevaks marching towards Ayodhya in 1990, saying if even more people were required to be killed for the country's unity and integrity, the security forces would have done it.

No one in the Congress party is currently owning responsibility for the timing of Rahul Gandhi's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, which has threatened to dismantle the rare unity that opposition parties had forged all through the winter session of parliament. Mr Gandhi met PM Modi on the last day of the session and minutes befor...

Waving flags and banners, thousands of people took to streets in Delhi on Sunday in a march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar against what they called "anti-national" activities in Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU.

US President Barack Obama's chief of staff on Tuesday took responsibility for not sending a top US official to a Paris unity march after deadly Islamic militant attacks in the French capital earlier this month.

You were not appropriately dressed, that's why you were subject to leering and catcalls. But she was wearing a provocative dress (could be anything from skirts to the very Bharatiya Sanskriti sari), that's why she got molested.  Such reasoning abounds when people try to justify violence against women on the streets. It is always a woman's doin...

The next big opposition show of unity will be on March 1 sponsored by Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK. The occasion is the 70th birthday of Chief Minister MK Stalin and the DMK is planning a huge public meeting in Chennai.

United in the rain, world leaders walked slowly up the Champs-Elysees in Paris to mark a century since the end of World War I -- but there were two notable absences, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The line of black-clad leaders was reminiscent of another moment of unity: after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo jihadist attack, when senior officials from mor...

Pravin Nishad, the candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur, on Sunday spoke of a "bigger alliance" if the Samajwadi Party, which has pulled off an electoral arrangement with arch rival Mayawati, wins. Under the pact, for the first time in 25 years, the arch rivals are on the same side to stop the BJP march - an understanding that wa...

A rally organised by some activists in Mumbai has turned into a staging ground of sorts for the opposition parties to use as a springboard for a multi-pronged offensive against the Modi government, in what is also being seen as a hint at developing a pan-India opposition unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2019

A march on Republic Day organised by social activists in Mumbai is turning into a show of strength by the opposition ahead of the Budget session, on the invitation of Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar. It is being seen as another attempt at building a united opposition front to take on the BJP in parliament and test the ground for a coa...

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday justified his order to open fire on karsevaks marching towards Ayodhya in 1990, saying if even more people were required to be killed for the country's unity and integrity, the security forces would have done it.

No one in the Congress party is currently owning responsibility for the timing of Rahul Gandhi's meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, which has threatened to dismantle the rare unity that opposition parties had forged all through the winter session of parliament. Mr Gandhi met PM Modi on the last day of the session and minutes befor...

Waving flags and banners, thousands of people took to streets in Delhi on Sunday in a march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar against what they called "anti-national" activities in Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU.

US President Barack Obama's chief of staff on Tuesday took responsibility for not sending a top US official to a Paris unity march after deadly Islamic militant attacks in the French capital earlier this month.

You were not appropriately dressed, that's why you were subject to leering and catcalls. But she was wearing a provocative dress (could be anything from skirts to the very Bharatiya Sanskriti sari), that's why she got molested.  Such reasoning abounds when people try to justify violence against women on the streets. It is always a woman's doin...