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New Delhi: Narendra Modi campaigned today for the first time after his outing in Telangana on Wednesday when he levelled serious allegations against...
New Delhi: A report from the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PM-EAC)– using old data, but with a new spin – has made headlines. The...
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) has been strongly decried by senior political scientists. A primary function of the EC has been to infuse...
New Delhi: Exactly a decade ago, Arvind Kejriwal was at the nucleus of some remarkable political theatre. Having trounced Sheila Dixit in her...
New Delhi: During the first high-level visit since the change in government in the Maldives, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar told his...
New Delhi: Canada has informed India about the arrests of three Indian nationals in connection with the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, but...
New Delhi: The National Conference has written a letter to the Election Commission of India on the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s “unjust cancellation...
The Karnataka unit of BJP was on Wednesday, May 8, compelled to delete a second post in as many days from its official accounts on social media...
New Delhi: Mayawati, the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo, may have developed a knack for delivering political shocks but her sudden decision to...
New Delhi: The trend of low voter turnout witnessed in the first two phases of Lok Sabha polls this election season has continued in the third...
For the last five years, the capital market in contrast to the Bank Nifty has been signalling a major concern with Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB), with...
Bengaluru: In 2021, three in four people in India could not afford a healthy diet. In South Asia, the pandemic disrupted work and...
The 2024 Congress election manifesto has forced the Bhartiya Janata Party leaders, mainly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to start a defensive...
“We do need time to think. We do need time to digest. We do need time to misunderstand each other, especially when fostering lost dialogue...
New Delhi: A man from Gujarat’s Mahisagar district has been detained for alleged bogus voting after he had gone live on Instagram from inside a...
Many political parties and platforms opposed to the Modi dispensation are putting up a resolute fight in these general elections. But a much more...
Ghazipur: When the Agneepath controversy erupted two years ago and the scheme faced protests, Indian Army officials had argued that the plan was...
New Delhi: A newly released report by two prominent academics has concluded, based on a series of surveys and opinion polls, that India’s global...
New Delhi: Voting for 10 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (May 7) was marred by allegations of police action against voters, especially...
New Delhi: A fresh lot of at least 128 Myanmarese soldiers have slipped into Bangladesh with their arms — unable to fight the Arakan Army (AA), a...
Valsad in South Gujarat is a parliamentary constituency that is known for one particular reason. Whichever political party wins the Valsad Loksabha...
New Delhi: At a campaign rally in Telangana’s Karimnagar on Wednesday (May 8), Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought a new issue into his...
Jaipur: A delegation of Jain monks accompanied by Sangh parivar outfits visited the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Rajasthan’s Ajmer on Tuesday (May 7)....
Anyone found asking votes in the name Caste, Religion, Army, etc. apart from PM Modi, will be barred from elections. Our job is to monitor...
Stranded, their homes demolished, loved ones killed and repeatedly displaced on their land, they had sought refuge in Rafah in the far southern...
New Delhi: Only two weeks ago in Rajasthan’s Banswara, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while attacking the Congress, referred to Muslim Indians as...
New Delhi: Desperate ailments call for desperate remedies. Little wonder, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accused by the Opposition of often working...
Accusing Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of collusion, Telangana deputy chief minister and Congress senior leader...
Chandigarh: A day after three independent MLAs withdrew support to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Haryana, top party leaders...
Mumbai: For the last few years, the country has seen openly Islamophobic rhetoric and wild anti-Muslim conspiracy theories from many across the...
Government economists, especially in the last five years, have taken to leading the analysis of data, not letting the data lead the analysis. The...
New Delhi: Narendra Modi on Tuesday continued to respond to the opposition’s charge of the BJP asking for “400 seats to finish reservations for...
May 7 is Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary As a teenager, I first encountered Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winner from Chile. His early...
British philosopher Mary Midgley had said, “Hubris calls for nemesis and in one form or another it is going to get it, not as a punishment from...
The primary function of Parliament is to legislate. When we elect people to the Lok Sabha, we are choosing who will write and pass our laws. In...
The right to protest is precious. In many democracies, it’s under threat – governing party politicians in Britain have moaned menacingly about...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday (May 6) said that if it grants interim bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, he will not be allowed...
Bhubaneswar: The bonhomie that once existed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik whom the former had...
New Delhi: While granting bail to a person charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Delhi high court has said that merely...
New Delhi: The Adani group’s drone sales may be the most high profile weapon export from India to a country accused of genocide at the world court...
Srinagar: The ongoing crisis for the INDIA bloc in Ladakh is a bitter reminder of the political faultlines dividing the arid desert region where...
This piece was first published on The India Cable – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To...
New Delhi: Ten constituencies in Uttar Pradesh voted on May 7 amid swelling caste tension between the dominant Thakur community and the backward...
Chandigarh: In a setback to the ruling BJP in Haryana amid the Lok Sabha election, three independent MLAs have withdrawn their support to the Nayab...
Gwalior: Not many people are aware that Chambal, known for its ravines, rebels and guns, has another identity. Arms are not taken up only by rebels...
New Delhi: After two rounds of polling registering a significant drop in voter’s turnout, the third phase of 2024 general elections today (May 7)...
Throughout the buildup to G20, the Narendra Modi regime had repeatedly used the catchphrases ‘mother of democracy’ and ‘vishwaguru’. The term...
Around seven months ago, in a discussion on a documentary on him, journalist Ravish Kumar said that he had initially wondered what there was about...
New Delhi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a statement calling recent reports that the amount of pesticides...
According to the Pew Research Center, Indian Americans are a model minority. Even among Asian Americans as a group – long seen as a model minority...
Darbhanga (Bihar): In the Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency, called the ‘Heart of Mithila’, and other neighbouring Lok Sabha seats of...
The punishment given to Prajwal Revanna should be such that he should never be able to go about with his head held high, says Mala (name changed*)....
Bengaluru: In the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections, the news portal Eedina had accurately predicted a victory for the Congress, which it said...
Barely months ago, during the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, when Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra had started her speech at a public meeting in the...
Away from the cool coaches of the Vande Bharat trains with their electric blue seats, wide clear glass panels and LCD screens showing government...
New Delhi: A day ahead of the Supreme Court’s hearing challenging Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in the alleged liquor...
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has not quite lived up to its lofty promise of providing women more representation in the Lok Sabha, at least...
New Delhi: Surprise Congress candidate for North-east Delhi, Kanhaiya Kumar, formerly JNU Students Union President, filed his nomination papers...
The Bharatiya Janata Party is askance that the Congress does not play to its script. Smriti Irani is crestfallen that her celebrity candidature has...
Bengaluru: Former Karnataka chief ministers Basavaraj Bommai and Jagadish Shettar started off their political journeys in vastly different set ups...