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Gandhi’s deliberate combativeness, default hostility and impulsive outbursts are decidedly Trumpian. So is his epic disregard for facts
Former Assam PCC chief Bhupen Kumar Borah is set to join the BJP ahead of the Assembly elections, dealing a setback to Congress. His exit comes amid...
Mamata Banerjee’s leadership faces a critical test as clashes with central agencies, corruption scandals, economic decline and law-and-order...
From civic negligence deaths to mass poisoning incidents, India lacks a codified tort law to ensure accountability and fair compensation. Without...
Repeated failures in conflicts from Venezuela to Ukraine and Gaza have exposed the UN’s declining relevance. With veto paralysis crippling the...
As Congress struggles with repeated electoral setbacks, the leadership debate between Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has sharpened. While...
The parliamentary debate marking the 150th anniversary of ‘Vande Mataram’ has revived an 88-year-old controversy, casting the Congress into a...
“High command will decide”, the anodyne statement with which all forms of intra-party dissent in the Congress are met, has failed to stem the...
Fidayeen attack or accidental explosion? RDX or ammonia gel? Jaish-e-Mohammad or Al Qaeda? The blast at Delhi’s Red Fort called to mind a vocabulary...
The Congress–RJD alliance in Bihar is fraying ahead of elections, driven by rivalry between Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav. While Yadav seeks to...
The new generation of political leaders are no longer happy with the status quo; RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav is attempting to expand beyond his...
Both alliances are predicated on aggregation of votes at the constituency level. In the fractured political landscape of Bihar, where no party has...
Development and disasters often go hand in hand. This year’s monsoon havoc in the Himalayan states and landslides in the Western Ghats indicate that...
In a bid to resolve the Karnataka caste conundrum, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has mandated yet another survey of backward classes, the fifth since...
Rashtriya Janata Dal boss Tejashwi Yadav is just 35 and is playing the youth card for all he’s worth. On Tuesday, he grabbed eyeballs by grooving...
AAP arrived on the scene in Punjab with a bang, on the back of its anti-corruption stance and the purported success of its ‘Delhi model’ of...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s fulsome praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of foreign policy earlier this week, coupled with an...
The punitive bombing of terror bases in Pakistan was dubbed Operation Sindoor for obvious reasons. As the widow of a Pahalgam victim said, the...
In the long term, India could expand its infrastructure to significantly reduce cross-border water flows, a prospect that spells disaster for...
The Congress conclave in Ahmedabad last weekend was rich in symbolism but lacking in substance. Rather than a meta-narrative of revival, what emerged...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nagpur, to pay homage to RSS founder Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in the centennial year of the organisation,...
Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin has framed the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as an instrument of linguistic imperialism. How well-founded...
Should each Lok Sabha and assembly segment in the country have an equal number of voters? Or, should each seat within a state have an equal number of...
Another reason for risk-taking is that destination countries often follow an unstated policy of what migration theorists have dubbed “permissible...
The 2025 Delhi assembly elections are of special significance, given that the future of the Aam Aadmi Party, a unique experiment in democratic...
UCC seems more of an infringement on the right to privacy, which is an intrinsic part of right to life and personal liberty under Article 21.
Shiromani Akali Dal faces challenges as extremism rises in Punjab's political arena.
Five essential resolutions for political parties to enhance governance, welfare, and accountability
ONOE impacts teachers, students, governance, and democratic principles. A single election cycle would ease these pressures.