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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement at a rally in Ajmer that the Congress manifesto for the 2024 general elections “has the imprint of the...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed an Emergency in 1975 and incarcerated opposition leaders. In 1977, she lifted the emergency and released her...
An enormous amount of money was amassed from companies through electoral bonds, irrespective of whether they were profitable or incurring losses,...
The resignation of election commissioner (EC) Arun Goel on March 9, just a few days before the announcement of the general elections, is unprecedented...
“If the legislature proves itself to be incapable of safeguarding kisans’ interests they will of course always have the sovereign remedy of civil...
After the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, Mahatma Gandhi wrote that the British regime perpetuated itself by employing the doctrine of...
The Narendra Modi regime’s decision to confer the Bharat Ratna on L.K. Advani, a Hindutva icon, a few weeks after it announced the same honour...
There has been a lot of talk about Ram Rajya following the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya even as the slogan ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is being...
The manner in which theology is being invoked in Ram temple’s consecration in Ayodhya and the deep association of the Indian state with it has been...
It is a coincidence that the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was celebrated on January 12 when there is massive publicity campaign launched by...
This piece was first published on The India Cable – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To...
The provision of harsh penalty prescribed in Section 106 (2) of the recently enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for offences committed in...
After sitting on eight Bills passed by the Kerala assembly for several months – in some cases for over two years – Kerala governor Arif Mohammed...
In his 2019 book Business and Politics in India, Christophe Jaffrelot said that Narendra Modi is perhaps the first Prime Minister to be anointed by...
While speaking in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on January 1, 1952, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru stated that Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)’s...
The Congress party, with 22 MLAs out of 199 seats in the Telangana state assembly and vote share of 22%, stood in sharp contrast to the Bharat Rashtra...
Rajasthan, where the election is scheduled to take place for the state assembly on November 25 is witnessing the Bharatiya Janata Party employ Prime...
Former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon while delivering a keynote address in Delhi’s India International Centre on Wednesday at the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support for Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is at war with Hamas following the...
As the nation celebrates the 154th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi today, it is painful to discern a pattern – rather, an obsession – of the...
Today is 9/11, 2023. Normally, we remember 9/11 for the terrorist attack on America in 2001 by some fanatics who destroyed Twin Towers in New York and...