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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president Amit Shah during a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opposition call for no help to BJP

This is the move the Opposition will try to replicate, unless the Congress can beat the BJP to being the largest party...

20 May 2019 12:01 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)

Federal institutions need to be stronger

The events seen in the duration of the prolonged polls must be seen against the larger canvas of national institutions.

20 May 2019 12:00 AM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) said he hoped that his visit to India will strengthen cooperation between the two countries in various areas like technology, agriculture and other spheres that are changing the world. (Photo: PTI)

After May 23, India has to reset ties with key powers

The next Indian Prime Minister has to loosen the China-Pakistan alliance by a combination of rewards and punishments.

20 May 2019 12:00 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has written to Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, complaining about Gujarat government firm GSPC.

Dilli Ka Babu: Power tussle during polls

The Modi sarkar has been working at streamlining the bureaucracy, to cut out the deadwood from the government.

19 May 2019 5:07 AM IST

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Why can't nationalism be a poll issue? India is in safe hands'

The BJP has no intention of toppling the Madhya Pradesh government, says Chouhan.

19 May 2019 4:58 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

John Bolton led negotiations for America to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so that the Bush administration could proceed with a national missile-defence programme. (Photo: AP)

Why is the US hell-bent on starting a war against Iran?

The Iranian armed forces showed they were no pushovers when Saddam Hussein attacked their country back in 1980.

19 May 2019 4:48 AM IST

US President Donald Trump speaks about a state of emergency from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

Silver lining in US policy

Trump's Mexican Wall stays as a firm proposal even as measures against immigrants from Central America are tightening.

19 May 2019 1:04 AM IST

Election officials carry EVM and VVPAT machines and other equipments ahead of the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls in Patiala on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

Once results are in, it's over to the President

To assert anything to the contrary even obliquely is to do disservice to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

19 May 2019 1:03 AM IST

Pragya Singh Thakur, aka Sadhvi Pragya

Wrong to paper over Pragya's take on Godse

It is good that the Supreme Court (SC) directed that Priyanka Sharma be immediately released.

19 May 2019 1:01 AM IST

Congress leader Manish Tewari speaking to media on Saturday. (Photo: ANI)

Tiwari owes George one; BJP snubs Pawar play

After mulling over its choice for weeks, the BJP picked Malegoan blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Thakur to take on the...

19 May 2019 12:57 AM IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Dinhata, Cooch Behar district, on Wednesday.

Is there a method to Mamata's madness?

During an animated conversation with friends at our home, it was interesting to hear multiple points of view on the...

18 May 2019 12:10 AM IST