By Prashant Sood New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government came under increasing attack by opposition parties through the year over a range of issues, including demonetisation, but larger opposition unity remained elusive…
By Prashant Sood & Brajendra Nath Singh New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) consolidated its position as the premier national party of Indian politics in 2016, breaking new ground in some…
By Anurag Dey New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) After storming to power in West Bengal for a second consecutive term, 2016 saw Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee striving for a bigger role in national politics…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) “Failure”, “chaotic”, “immoral”, “unsettling”, “revolutionary”, “brilliant”. Opinions about the effects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s November 8 midnight bomb wrapped in nationalistic garb differ, depending on whom…
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Ask anyone if Jeje Lalpekhlua can be dropped from the Indian football team on current form, and he will laugh in your face. But ask Jeje, the just-crowned…
By Biswajit Choudhury Mumbai, Dec 30 (IANS) The year 2016 has been the most momentous since India’s Independence for the Reserve Bank on account of a trinity of events — Raghuram Rajan’s exit from the…
By Chinmaya Dehury Bhubaneswar, Dec 30 (IANS) The SUM Hospital tragedy, poor healthcare, shoddy handling of the Mahanadi water-sharing dispute and the CBI inquiry into the multi-crore chit fund scam dogged the Naveen Patnaik-led Odisha…
By Parmod Kumar New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) The year that is ticking down saw the Supreme Court guarding its turf against the Narendra Modi government’s attempts to have its say in judicial appointments by…
For TR – 11 am International/Diplomacy/Terrorism/2016 in Retrospect By Arul Louis United Nations, Dec 30 (IANS) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi stayed away this year, India followed a strategy of quiet diplomacy while projecting its…
By Aroonim Bhuyan New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) As 2015 drew to a close, there were fresh expectations on India-Pakistan ties with the two sides deciding to resume their comprehensive bilateral dialogue during External Affairs…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Dec 29 (IANS) Star or no star, big screen or the computer screen — it was film and digital content backed by good and compelling storylines that drew the audience’s attention…
By Vikas Datta New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Human beings are mortal and know it but still can’t avoid grief over deaths, especially when the person concerned seemed likely to go on for ever, had…
By Rohit Vaid New Delhi/Mumbai, Dec 29 (IANS) A maiden integrated policy and over 20 per cent month-on-month traffic growth gave wings to the country’s civil aviation sector in 2016. The sector reaped benefits out…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Vijayawada, Dec 29 (IANS) For the residual state of Andhra Pradesh it was an eventful year marked by numerous post-bifurcation challenges — the biggest being the shifting of the administration from Hyderabad…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee & Fakir Balaji Kolkata/Bengaluru, Dec 28 (IANS) The increasing use of digital technologies in buying and selling merchandise for convenience and mobility pushed e-commerce in India to an inflection point in 2016….
By Nivedita New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) She once said that she wants the world, and it seems 2016 helped her get a few steps closer to her dream. The year saw Priyanka Chopra becoming…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) From the much-anticipated concert of British rock band Coldplay to the debut performance of the legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, many international acts graced Indian shores in…
By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress’ resounding win in the assembly polls, the Singur case verdict that further strengthened the ruling party’s position and the once invincible Left Front’s…
By Sayan Mukherjee New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) The euphoria over sending its biggest contingent ever to the Olympics did not last as the performance of Indian athletes did not measure up to promise. It…
By Vikas Datta New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) It was a tumultuous, even controversial, time for literature in 2016 with mixed reactions to the unexpected recipients of its most prestigious prizes, the latest installment of…