From the beginning of the criminal prosecution of Rajat Gupta, it was clear that the government didn't have the sort of evidence usually at the heart of insider trading cases. Gupta didn't profit directly from the tips he allegedly passed to Raj Rajaratnam, who has since been convicted of inside trading.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will rank as the most accomplished, poised and successful woman politician in American history. She has pierced many glass ceilings with tenacity and grace. She almost made it to the White House and future sociologists and historians will be able to more objectively assess the misogyny index that still lurks deep within American society and its relevance in the Obama-Clinton Democratic party tussle. The U.

A callow prime minister, a global superstar, shadowy international arms dealers, crafty middlemen and nosy journalists were the dramatis personae of a real-life political thriller that played out in New Delhi, Stockholm, London and New York over a quarter century ago.

The ruling Congress party coalition looks like it will at best limp its way to general elections in 2014, stung by a rash of corruption scandals that have tarnished Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s second term in office and led to a dismal performance in state assembly elections earlier this year. Now the political establishment is abuzz about who will be the next president, a largely ceremonial post that comes open in July.

What should be done with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? If the Defense Department is to be believed, the chief planner of the 9/11 attacks on America is guilty of mass murder and crimes against humanity. Even if the evidence elicited by waterboarding him 183 times is void, his declaration in 2002 that “I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation from A to Z” should ensure conviction.

Narendra Modi's career provides a classic example of how a kinky ideology can thwart political ambitions in a pluralistic society. Yet, when the same ideological outlook enabled him to scale the heights of political power by winning the 2002 assembly elections in Gujarat, the chief minister must have presumed that even greater successes were in store for him. What he hadn't taken into account were the imperatives of a multicultural country.

There has been quite a stir since I introduced a resolution this year calling for recognition of the right to self-determination by the people of Baluchistan. I drafted the measure after a Feb. 8 hearing by the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigations that exposed horrific violations of human rights by Pakistan security forces in Baluchistan. The U.S.

It turns out you can govern in 140 characters. Social media is often accused of coarsening our public discourse and of making us stupid. But some innovative public leaders are taking to their keyboards and finding that the payoff is a direct and personal connection with their communities.

Does India really subsidize petrol, diesel andcooking gas?   Our national debate has singularly focused on raising pricesin what is already one of the costliest for gasoline, ostensibly because allpetroleum products are subsidized by a state that can ill afford to do so.This, in turn, has led the opposition — and some allies like theTrinamool Congress — to resist any increase in administered prices,ostensibly to protect the poor.

In February, news television cameramen covering the legislative assembly of the south Indian state of Karnataka caught and filmed three ministers of the local government watching pornography on a mobile phone while the House was in session.

First there was poor governance. Now there is, shall we say,the death of reform. That has been the story of Manmohan Singh’s UPA-2. The budget, presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjeeon Friday, reinforces the latter point about reform and has been slammed by alland sundry. Parties have called it “anti-poor” and“status quo-ist,” among other things.