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Arfa Khanum Sherwani talks about the delay in the appointment of a Lokpal, the recent arrest of Nirav Modi in London and if Modi's "chowkidari" fell short all these years. https://youtu.be/AblprAhaDk4 source: The Wire

Mayawati, UP gathbandhan’s central pole, has been ambushed by the Congress and cornered by the Centre Mayawati  seems like a rabbit caught in the headlights. The Congress, which ought to be fighting to re-establish its legitimacy…

MARGINALIA To the many unprecedented methods employed in the last seven decades by New Delhi while handling a hot potato like Kashmir is yet another addition - three-phased polling in Anantnag parliamentary constituency. The move is being…

The Congress has already declared candidates for 54 seats and its president Rahul Gandhi has started campaigning. After the polls were announced on March 10, BJP leaders have been busy discussing candidates, manifesto and other…

NEW DELHI: More than 110 Lok Sabha  constituencies have been identified as “expenditure sensitive” or prone to influence through money power in the upcoming general election, according to the latest data compiled by the Election…

লোকসভা নির্বাচনের ঢাকে কাঠি পড়ে গিয়েছে। রাজ্যের শাসক দল ইতিমধ্যেই ৪২ টি কেন্দ্রের প্রার্থী তালিকা প্রকাশ করে প্রচার শুরু করে দিয়েছে জোর কদমে। এদিকে প্রার্থী তালিকা এখনও প্রকাশ হয়নি বিজেপি-র। তাই প্রচারের ঝড়ও ওঠেনি। কিন্তু প্রার্থী…

India is in the thick of election season, and tall promises and pretty sops are raining down faster than you can say “Lok Sabha”. The latest offering came from Congress President Rahul Gandhi while he was having an informal…

Can a granular Opposition response be a counter to Prime Minister Modi’s overarching nationalist script, post-Pulwama? So game, set and match to Prime Minister Narendra Modi? With just over two months left for the general election…

What’s the difference between a Parsi and an Irani? We’re both Zoroastrians. The Parsis left their homeland when it was still Persia, and have had 1,000 years to settle down and prosper in the great Indian cultural heritage; the Iranians…

Even the powerful Americans couldn’t convince China to abandon its ‘all-weather ally’ Pakistan in banning the JeM chief. India has expressed its disappointment at the fact that China has once again preventedJaish-e-Mohammed chief…