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Crowd of BJP supporters during Union Home Minister Amit Shahs election campaign rally, in Bhojipura, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | How BJP's line changed over civil liberties & social...

It may interest readers to know that from its formation till the 1984 general election, the BJP had no interest in...

25 Oct 2022 6:30 PM GMT

File photo of Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi waving at supporters at a public meeting ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Kheda district. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Gujarat, Modi's home base, remains a...

Gujarat, is not a cakewalk for either the BJP or Mr Modi, and the PM is also keen to prove that he remains unbeaten on...

29 Nov 2022 6:30 PM GMT

Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle

Governmental decision-making still characterised by ad hocism and a tendency to grandstand

21 Nov 2022 6:30 PM GMT

The reports of the party going into a major huddle to assess its prospects in as many as 160 constituencies across the country just fit into the pattern of the partys electoral preparedness. (Representational Image/PTI)

AA Edit | BJP gets poll machine in top gear for 2024

While the ruling party takes power and the means to capture it very seriously, the Opposition parties share none of that...

20 Dec 2022 6:40 PM GMT

The departures arent by any means a flood, but when there are just 800-plus families left in the Valley, it matters when even a few go away. (Representational Image/Twitter)

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Of the 808 Pandit families in the Valley, 16 left their homes in August

4 Dec 2022 6:30 PM GMT

The Dera Sacha Sauda of Ram Rahim Singh has been a cult that was much in the news. (Representatioanl Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenge of the cults: Can we overcome them?

Religiosity is being displaced by veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object

5 Sep 2022 6:35 PM GMT

Pavan K. Varma | Whither Dharma in an ethical wasteland?

Are Indians moral by choice, or do they do the correct thing only under compulsion or fear?

3 Sep 2022 6:40 PM GMT

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. (PTI)

Nitish denies reports of rift in I.N.D.I.A. bloc

He also quashed speculation about internal turmoil within the JD(U) and asserted that party leaders were united

25 Dec 2023 8:18 PM GMT

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Mazdooron Ka Hit Mazdooron Ko Samarpit programme in Indore, via video conference, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. (PTI Photo)

For me, there are 4 Jatis'- poor, youth, women and farmers: PM Modi

The Prime Minister said for any government to become powerful, its institutions play an important role

25 Dec 2023 8:07 PM GMT

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Will linking rivers' work, or end up as a disaster?

The project, when completed, will consist of 30 links, with 36 dams and 10,800 km of canals diverting 174,000 million...

9 Jan 2023 6:30 PM GMT

Pakistans Finance Minister Ishaq Dar (C) speaks during a press conference in Islamabad on February 10, 2023. - An IMF team left Pakistan on February 10 having failed to reach a deal on financial aid that would help the country avoid economic collapse. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | Growing instability in Pak to increase risks for India

As late Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was fond of saying, one can choose one's friends but not one's neighbours

20 Feb 2023 6:30 PM GMT

Pakistans former President Gen. Pervez Musharrafs popularity dropped and the attack by the security forces on Lal Masjid conservative seminary in Islamabad in July 2007 further increased his unpopularity. (File Photo)

AA EDIT | Pak general made war, then began peace pitch

Does this amount to a legacy? Time will tell

5 Feb 2023 7:25 PM GMT