<p> Not very often does it happen that a ruling party goes berserk over a major law & order issue while the opposition maintains silence.
<p>After a ...
<p> That India is a deeply religious and starkly segmented country is not a revelation. This disunion, which is immense and deep-seated, lies right ben ...
<p> My nephew turned five this October. Two years ago, when he could barely utter a few words, this young nightmare spent more than a month at my homet ...
<p> 23-year-old Prithvi Kumar was in the city of Surat, a big commercial centre of Gujarat, until the virulent wave of coronavirus battered the country ...
<p> In a matter of a few months from now, India’s biggest and politically most sought after state will witness elections to its 403-member-strong assem ...
<p> After flying for just over two hours, when a SpiceJet economy carrier landed in Darbhanga in Bihar, many passengers were rejoicing.
<p> "Yes..th ...
<p> After taking a cue from his Assam counterpart's communal take on Assam's population, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took a quick step with a new ...
<p> The abysmal rate of growth during the last years of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s decade-long rule was key in bringing the cur ...
<p> "Narendra Modi’s election win heralds new era in India," wrote the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> after Narendra Modi swept to power in 2014. Seven yea ...
<p> Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, while speaking in Hardoi at a public gathering on 31st of October, praised Sardar Patel and mentioned Jinnah, ...
<p> After 108 years, a district court in Bhojpur, Bihar, finally rendered a decision in a case involving a land dispute in May of this year. This impli ...
<p> <i>“In a parliamentary democracy, parliament is not supreme. It is the people who are supreme. And at any particular given time, the government or ...
<p> On December 1st 2021, five days before the anniversary of the Babri masjid demolition, Yogi's deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya put out a slogan-like twe ...
<p> At an event organised to commemorate the 35th death anniversary of former prime minister and farmer leader Chaudhary Charan Singh, the chorus for a ...
<p> <i>“Pradhan ji aa rahe hain!”</i>
<p> <i>“Aa ‘rahe hain’? Aa ‘rahin hain’, na?</i>
<p> <i>“Pradhan ji aa rahe hain!”</i>
<p> <i>“...Manju ...
<p> From a low-pitched and gentle ‘sabka’ Mama to an intemperate dog-whistling ‘Bulldozer Mama’, the changeover of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivra ...
<p> Have you ever been keen on a local candidate and his prospects in an election? Did you closely follow the counting procedure and resultant varying ...
<p> In the wee hours of October 24, 1990, L K Advani, the chief architect of the mandir movement who was then steering the historic rath yatra, was a ...
<p> The story goes back over a decade in 2007. In the economically penurious and socially retrogressive Bihar, the state government in its rapid drive ...
<p> Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national executive meeting held in Hyderabad last month, gave a call to his party ...
<p> Election campaigns are all about engaging and galvanising support for oneself and the party. Amid many activities and, often overplayed gestures th ...
<p> The catastrophic performance of the party in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly elections sent shockwaves across the Bahujan Samaj Party ...
<p> BENGALURU: City-based over 100-year-old Clarence High School (CHS) has hit back over the “petty-politics” being played over the Bible row. <i>“Non- ...
<p> Immediately after the assembly elections, the renewed stir in the form of meetings and discussions occurring in the Congress party and its dissiden ...
<p> The Union budget 2022 has got adulation from stock markets and as usual, India Inc has been left impressed. Shunning populism and crafting a ‘prude ...
<p> We live in increasingly polarised times. In the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh elections, many poll pundits analysed the mandate by simply classifyin ...
<p> Late Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his bid to refute charges of rising unemployment, had in the 2019 budget speech, said famously- <i>“If ...
<p> A fortnight back I had the opportunity to visit my hometown in Bihar. This happens to be the holy Hindu month of Savan. For the uninitiated, Savan ...
<p> Appointments to the country’s bureaucracy made through lateral entries have seen a spike. This was revealed in a response to an RTI application by ...
<p> It was in March 1998 that the wife of former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, and the current party president Sonia Gandhi took over the reins of the ...
<p> One of the foremost complaints critics have about Rahul Gandhi is his seeming lack of appetite for power and politics. Even among anti-BJP circles, ...
<p> This 25th February turned out to be a super Saturday in Bihar. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart and home minister, Amit Shah, addressed a big ...
<p> About four years ago, in the winter of 2018, prospects for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections began to look open for the opposition, courtesy of Congress ...
<p> Can a 3,500 Km long foot march be effective enough to rebrand a bombed brand? Despite all its noble claims, the Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) began at th ...
<p> <i>"Tumhare Paaon ke neeche koi zameen nahi
<p> Kamal ye hai ki phir bhi tumhe yakeen nahi" </i>
<p> ("no ground under your feet
<p> It's ...