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Election Commission Says Supreme Court ‘Upheld’ Form 6 Changes, But Did It?

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Election Commission of India and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar have been in the eye of a storm over...

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Modi’s Nationwide Birthday Show of Turning 76 Comes Under the Shadow of Political Setbacks, Questions on Governance

18.09.2026 30

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BJP Allies in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar Strike Cautious Note as Shah Promises UCC in 21-NDA Ruled States

Listen to this article: New Delhi: While Union home minister Amit Shah has announced that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will be brought in 21 National...

15.09.2026 30

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This Delhi Polling Booth Had 729 Voters During 2025 Polls. After Draft SIR List, it Has Only One.

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Gaytri Devi, a resident of Delhi’s Chandni Chowk assembly constituency, has been a booth level agent (BLA) with...

10.09.2026 40

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'Emotional' Street Theatre, Overseas Maha Yagyas, 250 Motorcycles: How BJP Govts Will Mark Modi’s Birthday

Listen to this article: New Delhi: From “simple emotional” music-based street theatre presentations on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 25 years...

08.09.2026 30

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SIR Draft Rolls Show Highest Voter Deletions in States Where Elections Were Held in Last 3 Years

Listen to this article: Draft voter lists released for the third phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) reveal that 6.15 crore names have been...

03.09.2026 30

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NPR in Disguise, Sabotaging Caste Count by Design? Why Census 2027 Has Raised Questions

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The much delayed population census, now underway, meant to enumerate India’s population, provide socio-economic...

27.08.2026 30

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‘No Shots Fired’ to ‘SC Committee Probing’: BJP Leaders Fine Tune Remarks on Pellet Gun Use in Delhi

Listen to this article: New Delhi: As leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday (August 21) staged a dharna outside the New Delhi...

22.08.2026 30

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Lack of Spirit of Democracy: Opposition MPs Reflect on How Parliament Changed Under Modi Govt

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Days after the monsoon session of parliament ended with little debate, bills that were passed in minutes and the...

21.08.2026 40

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Can BJP's New and 'Scrubbed' IT Cell Hide its Bigotry and Reassert Narrative Control?

20.08.2026 30

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‘Dimagi Naxals’, Online Coaching, AI: No Mention of Youth Anger in Modi's Independence Day Speech

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In his first remarks after youth protests in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar that spread across the country and forced...

15.08.2026 40

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Minister Forced to Resign, Delimitation Plan Foiled: Youth Protests, Opposition Push Modi-Shah on Back Foot

Listen to this article: New Delhi: About a month ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance...

13.08.2026 40

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‘What is the Point of Going Inside?’ Says Amit Shah After Missing Parliament Since July 20

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A day before the end of the monsoon session, Union home minister Amit Shah, who has been missing in parliament...

12.08.2026 30

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Modi Ministers Hide Behind ‘No Shots Fired’ But Govt Has Previously Used Terms ‘Firing’, ‘Bullets’ For Pellet Gun Use

Listen to this article: New Delhi: While multiple instances of pellet gun injuries have emerged following the police and Rapid Action Force crackdown...

12.08.2026 40

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'Where is Amit Shah?': Two Weeks After Police Action on Protesters, Home Minister Still Absent from Parliament

Listen to this article: Two weeks after the Delhi Police, on July 20, responded with brute force on protesters who had responded to the Cockroach...

03.08.2026 50

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Anti-Paper Leak Bill Clears Rajya Sabha Amid Opposition Walkout and Questions on Police Action on Protesters

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Thursday (July 30) passed The Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill,...

31.07.2026 40

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‘Why Were Pellet Guns, AK-47 Used on Youth?’: Opposition in Lok Sabha During Anti-Paper Leak Debate

New Delhi: The opposition on Tuesday (July 28) questioned why the Union government needed to use pellet guns, tear gas, AK-47s and lathis on...

29.07.2026 40

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Paper Leaks, Anti-National Forces: What Dharmendra Pradhan’s Resignation Note Says, What it Doesn’t

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Dharmendra Pradhan has become the first cabinet minister under the Narendra Modi government to resign under...

26.07.2026 60

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Public Anger Forced Dharmendra Pradhan's Exit. BJP Praises Him as a Hero Anyway

Listen to this article: New Delhi: It was youth anger and nationwide protests against successive examination paper leaks and calls for accountability...

26.07.2026 50

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'Govt Must Stop Lying': What Rahul Gandhi Said on the 'Pellet-Gun' Injured

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Amid the Delhi Police’s denial that they used pellet guns on protesters who had responded to the Cockroach Janta...

25.07.2026 40

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Opposition Keeps Pressure on Govt: No House Debate Until Pradhan Resigns; Symbolic Visit to Gandhi Smriti

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The opposition on Thursday (July 23) kept the pressure on the government both inside and outside parliament amid...

24.07.2026 40

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Amid Protests, Modi Promises to Not ‘Spare’ Those Who Harm Future of Youth – His Words Are Not New

Listen to this article: Amid the ongoing youth movement demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over repeated instances...

23.07.2026 50

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BJP's Responses to the Youth Protests Show the Party is on the Backfoot

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Four days since protesters in the national capital who responded to the Cockroach Janta Party’s Sansad Chalo...

23.07.2026 50

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At PM's Door: How Opposition Kept Pressure on Modi Government After Police Action on Protesters

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A day after youngsters who responded to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s Sansad Chalo March were met with brute...

22.07.2026 50

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Rahul Gandhi Leads Unprecedented Congress Protest Outside PM Modi’s Residence Demanding His Resignation

Listen to this article: New Delhi: High drama ensued outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on 7 Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi on Tuesday...

21.07.2026 40

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EC Made Changes to Form 6 Quietly During SIR: Why This is Evasion of Parliament and Public Scrutiny

Listen to this article: New Delhi: It is the government and parliament that are the sole competent authorities which decide on what changes, if any,...

19.07.2026 50

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BJP is Reviving Delimitation Plan But 50% Uniform Increase, EAC-PM's 'Targeted' Splitting Leave Unanswered Questions

Listen to this article: Months after the Narendra Modi government faced its first failure in parliament to get a constitutional amendment Bill passed...

06.07.2026 40

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'Not Questioning Judiciary. In Fact, We Turn to Courts When Every Mechanism Fails': 23 Opposition Parties to CJI

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Twenty three opposition parties including those outside the INDIA bloc – the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Aam...

03.07.2026 60

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23 Opposition Parties Including DMK and AAP Write Joint Letter to CJI on SIR

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A total of 23 opposition parties including those outside the INDIA bloc – the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),...

30.06.2026 50

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SIR at One: No Figure for 'Illegal Immigrants', Using Roll Revision to Suspend Rights, Rules Vary for Different States

New Delhi: When the Election Commission of India (ECI)  announced the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls – a term that does not...

30.06.2026 50

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Indians Must Prove Their Citizenship in the SIR – But With What?

When the Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday (June 24) said that an Indian passport is not a document proving citizenship, it may have been...

25.06.2026 50

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Defections Distorting Verdicts: NDA Still Long Way Off in Lok Sabha, Inching Towards Majority in Rajya Sabha

Listen to this article: Two months ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government had failed to pass a contentious...

17.06.2026 50

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After TMC, NCPI Split Over Merger with Rebel MPs? President Claims She Resigned Last Month, Workers ‘In the Dark’

Listen to this article: New Delhi: A day after the rebel MPs of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced that they would merge with the obscure...

16.06.2026 40

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Rebel TMC MPs Announce Merger With Little-Known ‘Nationalist Citizen Party of India’ in Bid to Avoid Legal Hurdle

Listen to this article: New Delhi: In an apparent bid to avoid disqualification under the anti-defection law, the rebel MPs of the Trinamool Congress...

14.06.2026 50

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Exclusive | 'Not Important What BJP Did, Why Couldn’t TMC Retain its Flock?': Rebel MP Satabdi Roy

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Amid the disintegration of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) with MLAs and MPs deserting former chief minister Mamata...

12.06.2026 40

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Full Text | 'Parties Splitting Is Unhealthy, It Keeps the Opposition From Doing Its Job'

A month after elections in West Bengal, the TMC is staring at total disintegration as MLAs and MPs pledge support to the BJP. Just last month, seven...

12.06.2026 40

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At INDIA Bloc Meeting: Pradhan's Resignation, Message from Congress's Allies, Cockroach Janta Party

08.06.2026 60

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'We're an Electoral Autocracy': Meet the Cockroaches at the First Cockroach Janta Party Protest

07.06.2026 60

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'Demographic Change' Committee Minus a Demographer? Why Sole Focus on Illegal Immigration is a Problem

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government has constituted a high level committee to study “demographic changes arising from...

04.06.2026 70

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As Siddaramaiah Bows Out, What Happens to His Social Justice Agenda and Congress' Power Truce?

Listen to this article: Ending months of speculation and three years of power struggle between him and his deputy, D.K. Shivakumar over the top post,...

30.05.2026 60

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Can the Election Commission Decide Who Is a Citizen? Questions Abound After Supreme Court's SIR Order

Nine months after the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ahead of...

28.05.2026 60

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‘Worst Fears Coming True’: Why BJP CMs’ Plans to Link SIR to Welfare Raises Serious Concerns

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), meant to be an exercise to “purify” electoral rolls of absent, shifted,...

24.05.2026 60

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NEET Leak, Fuel Crisis, Rupee Crash: Three Ministers Under Fire

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The cancellation of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for undergraduate admissions (NEET-UG) following a...

20.05.2026 70

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Congress Picks V.D. Satheesan as Kerala Chief Minister After 10 Days of Suspense

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Ten days after the Congress-led UDF won the assembly elections in Kerala, the party on Thursday (May 14) ended...

14.05.2026 70

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Seven Ways SIR in Bengal and Delimitation in Assam Have Altered India's Electoral Playing Field Forever

New Delhi: While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has recorded thumping victories in West Bengal and Assam in the recently concluded assembly...

08.05.2026 60

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As BJP Breaches Bengal to Consolidate East, Tamil Nadu and Kerala Keep South Out of its Reach

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Conducted under the shadow of the contentious special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, the 2026...

05.05.2026 60

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‘Street Fighter’ Mamata Banerjee Seeks Fourth Term Riding on Anti-SIR, Bengali Identity Campaign: Will it Be Enough?

Listen to this article: On Monday (April 27) as campaigning for the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections drew to a close, chief minister Mamata...

29.04.2026 50

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With Nine Charges, 73 Opposition MPs Move Fresh Notice in Rajya Sabha to Remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Listen to this article: New Delhi: From “partisan asymmetry” in enforcing the Model Code of Conduct to “public denunciation of a recognised...

24.04.2026 50

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From #2 to #1.5: How Amit Shah, Always Looming Large, Now Looms Larger

Listen to this article: On Wednesday (April 22), on the eve of the first phase of assembly elections in West Bengal, it was not Prime Minister...

24.04.2026 70

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In Major Setback, Modi Govt’s Constitution Amendment Bill Part of Delimitation Package Fails in Lok Sabha

Listen to this article: New Delhi: For the first time in 12 years, the Narendra Modi government on Friday (April 17) failed to get a constitutional...

18.04.2026 60

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