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CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

AA Edit | South India is different: Hopes rest on Left, DMK

The Dravidian major DMK has similarly reduced the seats for the Congress in its alliance of Tamil forces aiming to...

3 April 2021 8:19 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Signs of hope in UK's Batley, as teacher triggers...

Mohammed Amin Pandor, a publicity seeker and a graduate engineer from Dewsbury recently issued a fatwa against the...

3 April 2021 7:57 AM IST

When Didi needs funds, she doesnt waste a moment on these fine people she goes straight to those who have the requisite lolly the Marwaris of Kolkata. (PTI)

Shobhaa De | Will Didi's dadagiri' or BJP's dhanda' win Bong hearts?

Didi can appease, appease, appease all she wants and say namaz in public five times a day to win over a big and...

3 April 2021 7:45 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates ahead of the third phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, at Baruipur Paschim in South 24 Parganas. (Photo: PTI)

BJP will win 50 of 60 seats in West Bengal: Shah

He made the startling claim at two BJP rallies in North Bengal where he set a target before his party of bagging another...

3 April 2021 4:59 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public meeting, in Cooch Behar district. (Photo: PTI)

Mamata to PM: Don't need your advice, will win Nandigram

When I have contested from Nandigram, I will indeed win there and blacken your face, she said

3 April 2021 4:08 AM IST

Three militants, assistant sub-inspector of J-K police killed in encounter. (PTI Photo)

Pulwama encounter:Three terrorists involved in attack on BJP leader's...

In the exchange of fire, three militants were killed, the official said, adding their identity and group affiliation was...

2 April 2021 12:15 PM IST

A health worker, wearing PPE, conducts COVID-19 testing of a passenger at CSMT station, as coronavirus cases surge across the country, in Mumbai, on April 1, 2021. (PTI)

COVID-19: Single-day rise of 81,466 cases in India, highest in six...

Registering a steady rise for the 23rd day in row, the active cases have increased to 6,14,696 comprising 5 per cent of...

2 April 2021 11:19 AM IST

The fact that a probe has been ordered itself brings into focus the widely held view that the ruling party at the Centre had been playing toppling games through which non-BJP governments were targeted and brought down. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

AA Edit | DC Edit | K'taka: Lotus' probe welcome

This is a setback for the BJP as well as its Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa who was charged with engineering the collapse...

2 April 2021 8:55 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during the post-budget press conference, at National Media Centre in New Delhi, Monday, February. 1, 2021. (PTI/Arun Sharma)

AA Edit | Small savings U-turn: Bad economics, bizarre optics

The government may have calculated that if the interest rates are pushed down, it can borrow on better terms to meet its...

2 April 2021 8:48 AM IST

Vincenzo de Luca | Linking Italian, Indian cultures, past & present,...

The festival is a unique opportunity to further strengthen the historical cultural relations between the two countries

2 April 2021 7:44 AM IST

Less surprising but also far more frequent is evidence of the BJPs incredible faith in the Indian cow and its many products. (Representational image:AFP file photo)

Karan Thapar | BJP has a different take On history, science, cows!

Long is the list of BJP leaders who believe some of the greatest modern achievements actually existed in the times of...

2 April 2021 7:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in support of his party candidates, during the ongoing West Bengal assembly polls, at Joynagar in South 24 Parganas district. (Photo: PTI)

BJP will win 200+ in West Bengal: Modi

Calls TMC shool (thorn) for West Bengal, asks if Mamata will contest from another seat

2 April 2021 4:52 AM IST