India Politics

A 2012 editorial discussion asked whether civil-service vetting was re-victimizing child-marriage survivors — and why the law's letter can fail its spirit.

India tested the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012 — a 5,000-km canisterized ICBM that brought Beijing within range for the first time.

In April 2012 a Ghaziabad court issued a non-bailable warrant for Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi murder case; the CBI said she was missing from her Noida home.

The Indian Express reported two Army units moved toward Delhi unannounced in January 2012. The government denied coup fears; Parliament was unconvinced.

Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their two children to Norwegian social workers in May 2011, igniting a clash of two countries' parenting norms.

How India stopped polio: one year with no cases by January 2012, removed from the WHO endemic list in February, and the 2-million-worker vaccination

In January 2012, Indian media reported intelligence warnings that Lashkar-e-Taiba was training female operatives for attacks on India.

In December 2011, Kapil Sibal asked Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft to pre-screen content for offensiveness. Why the pushback was immediate — and

On November 24, 2011, Harvinder Singh slapped Union Minister Sharad Pawar at a Delhi literary function, saying he acted in anger over corruption and price rise.

Reader Shubhli Bhalla reflects on the Manu Sharma case — the rich kid's famous line, the parents behind the entitlement, and who really deserves the blame.

Manmohan Singh skips the 2011 Commonwealth summit in Perth — and the reason is Australia's refusal to sell uranium to non-NPT India.

In September 2011, speculation swirled that Nandan Nilekani might quit UIDAI as Aadhaar faced opposition from within government — including the Home Ministry.

Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh was arrested on September 6, 2011 in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam and sent to Tihar Jail after a dramatic courtroom appearance.

Anna Hazare's 2011 fast electrified India's anti-corruption movement. But can one Anna — or a hundred — clean the desh? The harder question behind the slogan.

After 12 days at Ramlila Maidan and a Parliament resolution on the Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare broke his fast on August 28, 2011. How the standoff ended.

As CAG, Vinod Rai's 2G audit pegged the spectrum loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore — and made a quiet auditor the most feared man in Indian public life.

Breivik's 1,518-page manifesto devoted 102 pages to India, praising Hindutva and seeking common cause. Why India's Hindu nationalists wanted nothing to do

In 2011, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy live-streamed his office 24/7 as an anticorruption experiment. Gimmick or masterstroke? We look back.

In a 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, Aatish Taseer — son of assassinated Pakistani governor Salman Taseer — traced Pakistan's obsession with India to its

On July 13, 2011, three coordinated blasts hit Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Dadar, killing 26. Mumbai's spirit answered — again.