Parliament exists to scrutinise the Budget, challenge assumptions, propose alternatives, and hold the government accountable ...

For the first time ever, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has made it mandatory to sing or play all six stanzas of the original composition of Vande Mataram by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, a ...

New guidelines issued by the Union Home Ministry on the National Song ‘Vande Mataram’ state that the audience must stand to attention whenever the official version of the song is sung or played.

Devi Durga seated on a tiger before Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma. Gouache painting by an Indian artist. Date: ...