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By Harihar Swarup Can Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar really go back to the Mahagathbandhan? And, can his return really make much of difference in 2019 Lok Sabha polls? In May this year, speculation began in political circles about his return to the Grand Alliance, giving the opposition...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Scared by possible opposition alliance of Samajwadi Party, BSP and Congress and other smaller and regional parties, BJP leadership is adopting multi-dimensional strategy to retain 73 seats won by party in alliance with Apna Dal in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.. ...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is almost daily announcing new schemes and projects to win over support of the electorate. But to everybody’s surprise, reports reaching Bhopal indicate a sharp decline in the popularity of the ruling party. Besides that, factional feuds...
By Sankar Ray Killing of 30 security jawans in an ambush at two checkpoints in the western province of Badghis of Afghanistan within three days of bilateral ceasefire a short while back, preceded by the death of over 50 civilians and security forces through blasts in Nangarhar province...
By Arun Srivastava With Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das continuing to ignore the demand of the tribals not to grab their land and transfer the same to the corporate houses, they have decided to launch a sustained movement to force him to concede to their demand. On...
By Krishna Jha The spilling over of information, from a major chink in Swiss deposits about the huge illegitimate stash amounting Rs 7,000 crore, has proved to be beginning of a sharp decline in the support base for the ruling regime. The BJP led government had got...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The BJP is convinced that the chemistry between Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is proving to be good. The PM has already met him twice and has been rather affectionate towards Gowda Jr. With the Karnataka Congress camp, particularly Siddaramaiah,...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has, once again, lived up to its reputation for blazing new trails in various fields. The latest feather in its capacious cap is the Bill for amending certain provisions in the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act to usher in changes aimed at...
By Subrata Majumder Trade war is not a short term tussle. It will linger. Nobody knows when it reaches the end game. It is an indirect sanction against export based economies, given that US is the biggest buyer in the world. Amidst this turbulence, a new pattern of...
By Aditya Aamir A good end of story for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. But the big story behind Delhi’s July 4 story is that Justice Chelameswar & Co. had no business alluding to ‘democracy in peril’ and there was no reason for top lawyers, sections of the media...