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The BJP is the most avid patron of the election marketplace, angling for the disgruntled and the discontent among rivals.
Last Saturday, the Congress, sapped internally with the serial defections to the BJP, was about to suffer another…
Watch | In This Corner of Western UP, the Pulwama Effect May Not Work for BJP
What has the effect of the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrike in Pakistan been on the ground? Senior editor of The Wire Arfa Khanum Sherwani visits Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh to find out.
What has the effect of the…
Darryl D’Monte (1944-2018) Perceptive, Compassionate and Always Professional
Old school but open to new ideas, friends, colleagues and acquaintances recall a model journalist
The Talent Spotter
Darryl was a down-to-earth guy, the right person to take over as Resident Editor of The Times of India (still)…
BJP’s 5 Yrs in Power & Relationship With Opponents: Here’s Full Transcript of Nitin…
The Union minister says he believes that the BJP will come to power with a majority and that a "Modi wave" still persists in the country.
New Delhi: He is a high-performing minister of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet, a doer, an…
HIJAB OR NO HIJAB: THE DISCOURSE EITHER WAY ENDORSES A STEREO-TYPE
New Zealand's 'hijab' campaign as part of solidarity for its Muslim community has been viewed differently across the globe. Many liberal feminist friends from across South Asia critiqued the move as 'patronising' and 'stereo-typing Muslim…
THE CURIOUS CASE OF GOVERNANCE IN ENGAGEMENT WITH KASHMIR CONFLICT
The complexity and intractability of Kashmir conflict has the strange potential of impacting every sphere of life including routine daily hum drum of ordinary lives in a myriad ways; and correspondingly everything under the sun has…
Lok Sabha polls 2019 | Nationalism is not an agenda for us, it’s our soul, says Union Minister…
"Rural distress has been a condition for 70 years. And, we have tried to provide relief on majority scale. Although I admit that more needs to be done," Gadkari told a TV news channel
In an exclusive interview with CNN News18 Political…
ADVANI OUT OF BJP’s LS LIST, AMIT SHAH IN
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah brought down the curtain on LK Advani’s 68-year-old career in the BJP and its progenitor, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Advani, 91, will not contest the Lok Sabha election. He was not renominated from Gandhinagar, a…
Afghanistan and the Taliban: next stage in the Great Game
Defeatism will hurt India’s interests more than the Taliban’s return to Kabul could
As international talks with the Taliban leadership gain momentum, India’s foreign policy establishment has gone through the five stages of grief:…
Indian analysts worry about advantage Pakistan as US-Afghanistan ties hit new low
Afghan National Security Adviser was summoned and pulled up by US after he accused its special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad of vested interests in the peace process.
New Delhi: US negotiations with the Taliban without official Afghan…