As expected, the country’s established political clans performed well in the May 12 election – but they didn’t have ...

Yet it is hard to think of an Asian country unsullied by them. Nowhere else is the case so assiduously cultivated by dynasts and their fans that power passed down by families is the best guarantor ...

The larger message to the people of Tamil Nadu is that dynasts would increasingly play a role in the politics of the state. It had become inevitable in the DMK, as the organization, like the ...

Their domination in India is a well-known fact. Political parties have fielded a large number of dynasts in ongoing Bihar elections. The most prominent examples are Lalu Prasad’s two sons (from ...

"Those who say that they have families, I want to ask these dynasts why didn't they worry about the pain of my Muslim sisters and daughters and their families when they were forced to return to ...

Unless you’re part of a dynasty or a beneficiary of dynasts’ patronage, you must be about to throw up from the greed for political power of certain clans. Congress is supposed to pass a law ...

A raft of congressmen, many of them officials of the ruling Liberal Party and dynasts themselves, quickly disavowed the President’s push, for reasons ranging from lack of time (“Realistically, I don’t ...

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a scathing attack on the opposition and said that dynasts looted funds meant for welfare schemes in the state.

The Haryana Assembly poll results came as a shock to many dynasts who had entered the fray as many prominent faces had to bite the dust, though some emerged victorious. Many kin of former chief ...

He said that the "dynasts" had harmed the country's youth the most. The prime minister launched several developmental projects worth more than ₹6,700 crore, including RJ Shankara eye hospital ...

It also repeats the provisions of the 1960 Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. Dynasts are multiple nepotists – yet get away with it. And there are so many of them. Every elected official is ...

To his loinclothed subjects, King Ninji, chocolaty ruler of a stretch of New Guinea jungle, last week presented another royal scion—the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Britain’s King George VI ...