Politics

April 2012 polls briefly showed Mitt Romney closing the gender gap with women voters. The movement, the spin, and what November actually delivered.

The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us

Mumbai Police released photos of alleged LeT terrorists who had entered the city — but reporters found the men in Lahore, running shops, tied to no plot.

Documents seized from Abbottabad showed bin Laden wanted Obama assassinated but Biden spared — judging the vice president too unready to inherit the presidency.

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.

In 2012 the Army was reported to be ending its colonial-era sahayak 'buddy' system. The promised end never fully came. What happened — and why the reform

Accounts circulated that Bal Thackeray pointedly skipped dinner for BJP chief Nitin Gadkari at Matoshree — a blunt episode in Shiv Sena-BJP alliance lore.

A 2012 report told of an Indian worker returning home after 18 years of bondage in Saudi Arabia — a stark window into the Gulf migrant-worker trap.

In April 2012, Nupur Talwar challenged the non-bailable warrant against her in the Aarushi case — lost in the Supreme Court, and surrendered on April 30.

Researchers began building riot-prediction models from social media and economic data in 2012 — and civil-liberties advocates immediately raised alarms.

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female

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.

Hilary Rosen's claim that Ann Romney 'never worked a day in her life' detonated a mommy-war controversy in April 2012 — and both campaigns fled the blast.

Barack Obama's 'we didn't have the luxury' remark about Michelle's $316,962 hospital salary — a gaffe about privilege, debt, and the politics of working

Days after the US put a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani counter-terrorism official said the JuD chief had been helping de-radicalize militants.

A 2012 Elle profile revealed the Secretary of State's top aides were plotting a revolt — not over policy, but over her beloved Eighties scrunchie.

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

In April 2012 Al-Qaeda's main internet forums went silent for over a week — an unprecedented blackout analysts blamed on a coordinated cyber attack.

Bundler Abake Assongba raised $50,000 for Obama's re-election — then was accused of defrauding a businessman of $650,000 and impersonating a bank official.