Rare Alliance

The dramatic evacuation of people fleeing Afghanistan will involve a US military-civilian alliance that dates back to 1951 but which has been activated only twice before: in 1990-1991 during the Gulf War and in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq.

The coming national elections will be a contest between the people and the anti-BJP alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in one of his rare interviews given to news agency ANI on New Year's day.

BJP President Amit Shah will meet Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray tomorrow in Mumbai, in a rare effort to reach out to its oldest but most aggressively critical alliance partner.

BJP's BS Yeddyurappa took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka today after a rollercoaster day and a night-long court-room battle. The rare post-midnight sitting of the court took place after the Congress and ally JD(S) challenged Governor Vajubhai Vala's decision to invite the BJP to form government despite the strength of alliance numbers. The...

Elected members of the BJP and Congress have joined hands to run Mizoram's Chakma tribal council, a surprise move engineered by local Congress leaders to keep the opposition Mizo National Front, or MNF, out of power.

So the Congress is finally acknowledging that Priyanka Gandhi is very much in politics and calling the shots that matter such as being the chief negotiator in the critical alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. Ahmed Patel, Congress leader and Political Secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi is a taciturn politician who is known to s...

Since her election to parliament in 2012, Dimple Yadav has exhibited few signs of political interest or stamina. She has rarely spoken in the Lok Sabha, and in Uttar Pradesh, she has limited her political ventures to accompanying her husband, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, most recently on his campaign tour that has been abruptly suspended by a pro...

NATO will seek to reassure Russia on Monday that its troop deployments to the Baltics and Poland next year are purely defensive, in a rare meeting of the alliance's envoys with those of the Kremlin that is unlikely to resolve long-standing grievances.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington "reflects the significance that the two leaders place on our natural alliance," the US state department has told NDTV ahead of the PM's two-day visit to the US that begins late tonight India time.

British Prime Minister David Cameron joined forces with a former trade union leader on Thursday in a rare alliance to urge voters to stay in the EU, warning that leaving posed a threat to jobs, wages and prices.

A rare treat awaits the lovers of poetry, films and arts, in Delhi this weekend. The fifth Sadho Poetry Film Festival will be held over two evenings, in the capital on November 14 and 15. It will be held at Alliance Francaise in New Delhi.

Rare clashes between jihadists from the Islamic State group and fighters from the Fajr Libya militia coalition erupted Saturday in the central city of Sirte, security and militia officials said.

Fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic Chinese rebels has handed the long-feared military a public relations coup, with an explosion of praise on social media and even former political prisoners expressing grudging support.

When Islamic State fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a rare coalition of Sunni tribal fighters inside the town and Shi'ites in its sister city Balad on the opposite bank.

Putting up a united front, the Shiv Sena and BJP, allies for nearly 25 years, today declared at a joint press conference that the two parties were keen on continuing the alliance; they have been squabbling over their share of seats for the Maharashtra assembly elections. Meanwhile, with only four days now left to file nominations, the ruling Congre...

The dramatic evacuation of people fleeing Afghanistan will involve a US military-civilian alliance that dates back to 1951 but which has been activated only twice before: in 1990-1991 during the Gulf War and in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq.

The coming national elections will be a contest between the people and the anti-BJP alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in one of his rare interviews given to news agency ANI on New Year's day.

BJP President Amit Shah will meet Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray tomorrow in Mumbai, in a rare effort to reach out to its oldest but most aggressively critical alliance partner.

BJP's BS Yeddyurappa took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka today after a rollercoaster day and a night-long court-room battle. The rare post-midnight sitting of the court took place after the Congress and ally JD(S) challenged Governor Vajubhai Vala's decision to invite the BJP to form government despite the strength of alliance numbers. The...

Elected members of the BJP and Congress have joined hands to run Mizoram's Chakma tribal council, a surprise move engineered by local Congress leaders to keep the opposition Mizo National Front, or MNF, out of power.

So the Congress is finally acknowledging that Priyanka Gandhi is very much in politics and calling the shots that matter such as being the chief negotiator in the critical alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. Ahmed Patel, Congress leader and Political Secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi is a taciturn politician who is known to s...

Since her election to parliament in 2012, Dimple Yadav has exhibited few signs of political interest or stamina. She has rarely spoken in the Lok Sabha, and in Uttar Pradesh, she has limited her political ventures to accompanying her husband, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, most recently on his campaign tour that has been abruptly suspended by a pro...

NATO will seek to reassure Russia on Monday that its troop deployments to the Baltics and Poland next year are purely defensive, in a rare meeting of the alliance's envoys with those of the Kremlin that is unlikely to resolve long-standing grievances.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington "reflects the significance that the two leaders place on our natural alliance," the US state department has told NDTV ahead of the PM's two-day visit to the US that begins late tonight India time.

British Prime Minister David Cameron joined forces with a former trade union leader on Thursday in a rare alliance to urge voters to stay in the EU, warning that leaving posed a threat to jobs, wages and prices.

A rare treat awaits the lovers of poetry, films and arts, in Delhi this weekend. The fifth Sadho Poetry Film Festival will be held over two evenings, in the capital on November 14 and 15. It will be held at Alliance Francaise in New Delhi.

Rare clashes between jihadists from the Islamic State group and fighters from the Fajr Libya militia coalition erupted Saturday in the central city of Sirte, security and militia officials said.

Fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic Chinese rebels has handed the long-feared military a public relations coup, with an explosion of praise on social media and even former political prisoners expressing grudging support.

When Islamic State fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a rare coalition of Sunni tribal fighters inside the town and Shi'ites in its sister city Balad on the opposite bank.

Putting up a united front, the Shiv Sena and BJP, allies for nearly 25 years, today declared at a joint press conference that the two parties were keen on continuing the alliance; they have been squabbling over their share of seats for the Maharashtra assembly elections. Meanwhile, with only four days now left to file nominations, the ruling Congre...