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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.

Similar Dravidian manifestos

Both parties want river inter-linking as a solution to an eternally water-starved region with no major rivers...

23 March 2019 12:15 AM IST

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

With Advani's exit, BJP adieu to elders

The BJP's first list for the Lok Sabha election, released on Thursday, appears to be a confirmation of this.

23 March 2019 12:00 AM IST

Who nabbed Nirav Modi?

Nirav expensive ostrich feathers coat may have given him away to an intrepid British newspaper reporter.

22 March 2019 2:11 AM IST

Pakistan has sought more time from India to decide on the issue of producing 13 witnesses in the Samjhauta Express blast case. (Photo: AP/File)

Samjhauta blast case acquittals surprising

The judgment in the Samjhauta Express case is only the latest in that chain of events.

22 March 2019 2:08 AM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Photo: AFP)

Lessons from Kiwi PM

Ardern could easily have got away by being just polite and correct in the face of the terrorist tragedy.

21 March 2019 1:50 AM IST

Lokpal is welcome, even if long delayed

Anna Hazare, who revived the campaign for a Lokpal, can rest content that his campaign has, although belatedly, borne...

21 March 2019 1:50 AM IST

A fresh start in Maldives

More than that, it is also Delhi's first foreign policy success after it was caught napping.

20 March 2019 12:48 AM IST

Ambanis: Blood is thicker than water

The vicissitudes of competitive business couldn't have been more glaring than in two brothers' case.

20 March 2019 12:48 AM IST

Former IAS officer Shah Faesal with former JNU student leader Shehla Rashid during a rally organised to launch a new political party in Srinagar on Sunday. (Photo: H.U. Naqash)

An explosion of parties

mong the more interesting new parties is of Shah Faesal, once an IAS topper and J&K administrator.

19 March 2019 12:02 AM IST

Manohar Parrikar, who succeeded UPAs Antony as Defence Minister when NDA came to power in 2014, was speaking at the Goa Arts and Literature Festival in Panaji after launching a book Securing India The Modi Way, penned by Nitin Gokhale. (Photo: PTI)

Will Goa's new CM follow Parrikar path?

The late CM was one of Goa's most popular politicians in decades and was widely admired.

19 March 2019 12:00 AM IST

Hundreds of students of Pudukkottai Government Women Arts College staged a sit-in protest over the Pollachi sex scandal. (Photo: ANI)

TN sex scam: Book culprits

It's debatable, however, if any sum is adequate for what just one victim of a major sex scam targeting women in...

18 March 2019 12:20 AM IST

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar (Photo: AFP)

World must verify Pak claims on terror action

As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Beijing needs to display greater sobriety and a sense of balance.

18 March 2019 12:17 AM IST