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Written By: Rahul Shivshankar News18.com Last Updated: April 25, 2024, 15:02 IST New Delhi, India If Phase 1 was deemed the trickiest...
Written By: Rahul Shivshankar News18.com Last Updated: April 18, 2024, 10:52 IST New Delhi, India The prime minister is so confident...
Written By: Rahul Shivshankar CNN-News18 Last Updated: April 16, 2024, 22:21 IST New Delhi, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi with...
Written By: Rahul Shivshankar News18.com Last Updated: April 08, 2024, 15:41 IST New Delhi, India As the BJP grows and becomes the...
Written By: Rahul Shivshankar CNN-News18 Last Updated: April 03, 2024, 21:19 IST New Delhi, India Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File...
Washington has lost imperium but that hasn’t made it less of a moral imperialist. In a gratuitous display of paternalism, the US has decided to...
For the longest time, bringing a politician to heel became synonymous with inviting grievous consequences. The full panoply of what these consequences...
The DMK is back to paying obeisance at the altar of Tamil nationalism. The latest supplicant from its ranks is Andimuthu Raja who is also a Member of...
Weddings edify the power of commitment. This might be stating the obvious, but not if you’re an Ambani. The Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant...
It’s the one “Modi guarantee” that almost fell between the cracks. For almost five years now, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) – widely...
They won’t go boldly where no Indian has gone before (that first belongs to Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma), but India’s four space astronauts will...
For some weeks now, the BJP’s opponents have been calling upon voters to halt Narendra Modi’s march towards a third term. These BJP critics...
Those that seek recourse in whataboutery are deeply convinced that two wrongs always make a right. If you accuse practitioners of ‘whataboutism’...
They’re back menacing Delhi’s borders. And they’re better prepared. Armed with tractors, modified to look like the hulking haunches of Japan’s...
They are back. Eight magnificent naval men, who had been condemned to life in purgatory by Qatar. When news broke last year that these eight men had...
Yogi Adityanath is perhaps the first front-ranking BJP functionary from the saffron fold to have officially endorsed Hindu claims over the two...
There’s talk that the INDIA bloc is about to be jolted another time. After Nitish Kumar, in Uttar Pradesh, Rashtriya Lok Dal’s (RLD) chief Jayant...
At the end of 60 minutes, there were no tax breaks – the go-to unction applied by finance ministers to massage the aam voter. There were no...
For a while now, we were being told that Bharat needs the INDIA bloc. And that it provides an important antidote to the alleged miasma of Moditva. A...
Is the bubble of mendacity about to burst? The Varanasi District Court has taken a giant leap of faith. It has decided to make the Archaeological...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was filmed singing the mellifluous ‘Shri Ram Jai Ram’ bhajan in the precincts of the imposing Veerbhadra temple in...
For days altogether, it has been drilled into us (the pious and the not-so-devout) that the Pran Pratishtha of the Ram Lalla idol in the garbhagriha...
The Congress party has decided to boycott the much-vaunted Pran Pratishtha ceremony on January 22. The Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust had...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) Al Nahyan coursing down the roads of Ahmedabad in an unprecedented show of...
Who could have thought it? PM Modi’s decision to spend a morning on the powdery white sands of Lakshadweep or then glide gracefully over its coral...
When it comes to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, nothing matters to the Left. Not the tide of evidence, the weight of history or even the stamp of the...
They could well set up a parallel parliament. 143 opposition Members of Parliament have been suspended over the past week ever since the Lok Sabha was...
The Allahabad High Court has ordered a survey of the entire plot atop which towers the Shahi Idgah Mosque. The survey, a much-appreciated procedural...
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the Modi government’s decision to scrap Article 370 in August 2019. Article 370 was contentious because it...
TMC firebrand leader Mahua Moitra has been expelled from the Lok Sabha. A report prepared by the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha concluded that...
So it has begun. The BJP’s fantastic showing in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, it’s growth in both Telangana and Mizoram has triggered a...
We were all prepared for the humbling of the BJP. The Congress, influential pundits and even the Exit polls had predicted an insipid BJP performance...
It was hard not to feel a lump in one’s throat when seeing the relieved, smiling faces of the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mine...
Five good men that could have chosen to do anything with lives, chose instead to serve their country and when that wasn’t enough, chose to sacrifice...
Anti-Islamism populist leader Geert Wilders has registered a shock victory in the Dutch general elections. News reports unanimously say that after 25...
The Uttar Pradesh government has banned the sale of “halal-certified” products. Apparently, cases have come to the state police’s notice where...
Retired Pakistan cricketer Abdul Razzaq dragged Bollywood superstar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan into a discussion on Pakistan’s...
A few weeks ago, DMK scion Udhayanidhi Stalin submitted a plea before the Madras High Court. The Chief Minister’s son was hoping to refute the...
Who in a secular democracy would be prepared to risk a backlash by describing a militia of xenophobes as freedom fighters? Very few, one imagines,...
It’s the kind of brazen invitation to bigotry that one has come to associate with our chronically bilious neighbour Pakistan. Every so often, some...
The UN General Assembly on Friday voted on a Jordan-sponsored resolution titled ‘Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian...
The war between Israel and Hamas may appear as though it is far removed from our reality. After all, the bloody settling of scores is taking place...
It is a profound travesty that the Mahua Moitra story is thus far exciting interest for all the wrong reasons. But then who can blame the public. Who...
The world woke up to searing images of human suffering and cruelty today. The grotesque aftermath of a missile strike. Hundreds of bodies charred...
Babies burnt alive. Some shot point black in their cradles in the dead hours of one of the darkest nights in Israel’s history. Countless other...
Thousands of rockets peppered several locations across Israel on one of the most consequential Jewish holidays. As the rockets exploded and mayhem...
Rahul Gandhi has penned a metaphorical essay on his understanding of the essence of Sanatan Dharma. As metaphors go, it is sufficiently esoteric and,...
They are here. Pakistan’s one-day international cricket world cup team has arrived to notch up a “victory for Islam” against Rohit Sharma’s...
Very few politicians in India can match Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Assaduddin Owaisi when he gets on to his...
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s sudden appearance at Srinagar’s Jama Masjid after a hiatus of four years marks the beginning of a new chapter in...