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The entire West Bengal administration is working for the ruling TMC, BJP President Amit Shah said. (Photo: ANI)

Kaun banega BJP president?

The selection of the diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as foreign minister was not even anticipated by the media.

2 Jun 2019 12:15 AM IST

Elections are being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eights constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi and four in Jharkhand. (Photo: twitter/ANI)

Assess, rectify, reflect on how far we strayed

The defeated leaders will not be short of advice, particularly from the media on what went wrong and what they should...

26 May 2019 6:51 AM IST

In India, opinion polls start pouring down a couple of months prior to the elections, projections keep taking different shapes and colours till the exit polls.

I voted to keep majoritarianism at bay

Civilised people do not do it, civilised people do not condone it, or justify it or ignore it.

19 May 2019 4:54 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru (Photo PTI)

Hard times ahead for Nehru reform legacy

Ambedkar wanted to introduce other changes, all of them relating to the inheritance rights of the women of the family.

12 May 2019 12:00 AM IST

BJP's voteshare game focused on Hindu votes

The BJP under Mr Modi appears to be upending this tradition in North Indian states.

5 May 2019 12:53 AM IST

The Congress is yet to declare its candidate on the Gandhinagar seat, where Shah is the BJP candidate. (Photo: file)

Congress' homework rebuilding the party

All in all the BJP is in control of one of the most powerful political machines in the world, in terms of people,...

28 April 2019 4:48 AM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh (Photo: PTI)

Cheers at rallies might not mean votes

Newspaper journalists receive feedback in a different, slower way and that is one reason why newspapers are less...

21 April 2019 5:11 AM IST

Congress president Rahul Gandhi maintained that there was massive corruption in contract and wondered why CAG report cited by SC on it had not been shared with PAC of Parliament. (Photo: ANI)

Anti-intellectualism: Its boons and pitfalls

It should be said that the Congress Party's dynasty is itself not particularly qualified in the educational sense.

14 April 2019 12:00 AM IST

Senior BJP leader L K Advani. (Photo: PTI)

Nation First, Self Last' is an empty slogan

Shah had said that Congress leaders should drown themselves for proposing the weakening of the Afspa law.

7 April 2019 12:05 AM IST

55,012 farmers of Konkan division took the insurance cover

Democracies need NGOs to protect rights

The United Progressive Alliance set up a group of people from civil society and called this group the National Advisory...

31 March 2019 2:26 AM IST

The sources said, Election Commission would also ask law ministry to take call on its demand to extend constitutional protection to 2 election commissioners on lines of CEC. (Photo: File)

EC must encourage people to contest polls

Candidates are also disqualified if they have been convicted for some specific offences that are listed.

24 March 2019 12:06 AM IST

At least 49 were killed and 20 were injured after a gunman opened fire on Friday prayers at a mosque in New Zealand killing many worshippers and forcing the city of Christchurch into lockdown as police launched a massive manhunt. (Photo: File)

The coloniser who murdered immigrants

This is of interest because of the beliefs that the shooter in New Zealand has about immigration and foreigners.

17 March 2019 5:52 AM IST