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Monday, August 11, 2025
TopicAtal Bihari Vajpayee

Topic: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

When an RSS chief was supremely unimpressed with Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Then RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan didn’t rate Vajpayee’s term as PM highly and was clearly upset about his son-in-law interfering in party and government affairs.

A glimpse of Vajpayee as he turns 93, and VIPs and fans throng to wish him

The former prime minister was visited by top leaders including Modi, Manmohan, Shah, Advani, Rajnath, and a large number of BJP workers and well-wishers.

The Ram Mandir test: How Modi fares can be his defining legacy

The Ayodhya issue will test Modi’s political capital, because one party will leave the table more aggrieved than the other.

कैसे तीन प्रतिद्वंद्वी पार्टियों के चार महान नेताओं ने सुखोई-30 सौदा बचाया

यह कहानी है कि कैसे नरसिंह राव, अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी, जसवंत सिंह और अविश्वसनीय रूप से मुलायम सिंह की बुद्धिमत्ता के बिना भारतीय वायु सेना का सुखोई-30 हासिल करने का सपना उड़ान भरने से पहले ही ध्वस्त हो गया होता।

Kashmir interlocutor: Modi govt walks in Vajpayee’s footsteps

There are similarities between the two NDA governments' appointment of an interlocutor for Kashmir. NDA-2 was waiting for winter when infiltration is low.

Hurriyat blames Centre for Kashmir dialogue stalemate

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq says Modi govt lacks “Vajpayee approach”, paying lip service about holding talks.

Lessons in stardom from Dev Anand

On his birth anniversary, my perennial tale of close encounters with Dev Anand: conversations on the most fabulous women in Hindi cinema, essentials of stardom and learning to catch the best light

‘Ab ki baar, Modi sarkar slogan was born in BJP’s election war room’

As a Twitter storm rages, party’s campaign managers say the catchline for 2014 Lok Sabha election was a result of their collective brainstorming.

Rahul Gandhi’s US tour can’t change fact that Congress has no clarity on its strategy

There is no grand re-organisation or an ideological rethink in the Congress Party that a stunning electoral debacle like 2014 should have prompted.

NDA is in coma, things were different when Vajpayee was PM: Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena leader talks about BJP’s one-upmanship and growing pitch within his party about withdrawing from the BJP-led coalition.

On Camera

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.