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Family feud: Narendra Modi’s development plank may lure SP voters to BJP
October 25, 2016, 12:21 AM IST
At first blush, the slow-motion implosion of the Samajwadi Party (SP) helps the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). SP’s traditional Muslim voters would not want to waste their votes on…
October 25, 2016, 12:21 AM IST
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The jungle rules when the state bows
October 24, 2016, 12:29 AM IST
The government is not just an institution that allows some individuals to play leader and enjoy the perks of office. The authority of the state is what separates order from chaos, progress from stagnation, pursuit…
October 24, 2016, 12:29 AM IST
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As the SP goes into a tailspin, the poll prospects for parties in 2017 are set to change
October 24, 2016, 12:03 AM IST
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Mahabharat in Yaduvansh’ has been the recurring theme for headline writers in recent weeks. It’s quite perfect because within the Samajwadi Party (SP) it has been a Yadav versus Yadav fight, complete…
October 24, 2016, 12:03 AM IST
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Still waiting for the Priyanka fireworks
October 23, 2016, 4:56 PM IST
With Rita Bahugana Joshi becoming the latest in a steady flow of defections from Congress to BJP, it was only a matter of time before someone would invoke the favorite magic incantation once again. Dear…
October 23, 2016, 4:56 PM IST
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Devendra Fadnavis shame, shame
October 23, 2016, 3:50 PM IST
In congratulating Team India for winning the Kabaddi World Cup for the third time in a row, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis took special note of its great show of aggression and passion. It would…
October 23, 2016, 3:50 PM IST
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How many Ramayanas can you fit into a museum?
October 23, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
When the Centre announced a Rs 225-crore Ramayana museum in Ayodhya, right ahead of the Uttar Pradesh election, of course it was accused of exploiting religious feelings for political use. And of course the culture…
October 23, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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Raj Thackeray ka goonda raj in Bollywood
October 22, 2016, 1:49 PM IST
Raj Thackeray is claiming victory, saying Ae Dil Hai Mushkil can be released now that its producers have agreed to pay Rs 5 crore for the Army Relief Fund, as ‘penance’ for signing Pakistani artistes….
October 22, 2016, 1:49 PM IST
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Mehbooba’s Disney world: She tells cops to play nannies
October 22, 2016, 11:37 AM IST
More than 100 days of stone pelting, pellets, curfews and hartals later, one imagines that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is under a lot of pressure. How is she handling it? Going by the speech she…
October 22, 2016, 11:37 AM IST
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Political parties should divorce triple talaq; here’s why
October 21, 2016, 11:54 PM IST
Political parties need to come clean on their position on triple talaq, a form of divorce provided for in Muslim personal law in which a man can divorce his wife just by repeating the word…
October 21, 2016, 11:54 PM IST
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Eyeing the UP prize – Surgical strikes, SP’s family wars, BSP’s Muslim outreach: UP polls are wide open today
October 21, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
If there is something that can be said with certainty about the impending elections in Uttar Pradesh, it is that the field is wide open today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image has acquired a new…
October 21, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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Five reasons why Akhilesh Yadav is Samajwadi Party’s best bet in this election campaign
October 20, 2016, 6:54 PM IST
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has decided to shed any pretension of being respectful towards the elders in his family when it undermines his political career. In a letter addressed to his father and…
October 20, 2016, 6:54 PM IST
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Manohar Parrikar and the politics of surgical strikes
October 19, 2016, 4:39 PM IST
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar has left no stone unturned to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RSS and the Indian Army are given full credit for the surgical strikes carried out across the Line of…
October 19, 2016, 4:39 PM IST
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Narendra Modi’s Himachal rally: Chest thumping is campaign strategy
October 18, 2016, 6:38 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s missive of asking BJP workers not to go around chest thumping about India’s surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir unfortunately seems to be lost on him. Speaking…
October 18, 2016, 6:38 PM IST
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Ravichandran Ashwin and Yasir Shah: Different spin to Indo-Pak ties
October 17, 2016, 6:46 PM IST
India and Pakistan’s relationship has been strained to say the least, but it hit rock bottom after the Uri attack in which 19 Indian soldiers were martyred on September 18 followed by surgical strikes conducted…
October 17, 2016, 6:46 PM IST
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Five reasons why a Ramayan Museum is welcome in Ayodhya
October 17, 2016, 5:00 PM IST
Just when the country is busy debating the pros and cons of triple talaq, that Ayodhya has once again taken centre stage. The government has announced that union Culture minister, Mahesh Sharma, will travel to…
October 17, 2016, 5:00 PM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Ambedkar emphasised Buddhism because of its equality … No Buddhist in the world will support BJP model of Buddhism: Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar
October 17, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
Sixty years after the architect of India’s Constitution B R Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with 3,65,000 of his followers in a public ceremony in Nagpur on October 14, 1956, the debate over his legacy…
October 17, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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Stupidity of boycott politics – Just can’t crush the passionate Indian love affair with Chinese imports
October 15, 2016, 11:44 AM IST
Even at the height of the swadesi movement of Gandhiji he remained ensconced amidst colonial imports – railways, telephones, the printing press, ideas like democracy … The world is much more globalized today and a…
October 15, 2016, 11:44 AM IST
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Mulayam or a King Lear in decline
October 15, 2016, 11:42 AM IST
Looks like Mayawati had got the right read on the state of Samajwadi Party today. At a mega rally in Lucknow last Sunday she had told voters, specifically Muslim voters looking to form a non-BJP…
October 15, 2016, 11:42 AM IST
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Terror, not temple will be BJP’s main plank in UP assembly elections
October 14, 2016, 11:00 AM IST
As assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh slated for early next year approach, every party is busy giving final touches to their campaign strategy before hitting the dust and grime across 403 assembly constituencies. Though social…
October 14, 2016, 11:00 AM IST
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Why it is hard to believe Manohar Parrikar’s claims of India’s first ever surgical strikes
October 13, 2016, 11:32 AM IST
When defence minister blatantly gives full credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the successful surgical strikes across the LoC on terror launch pads on September 29, it is understandable. After all he is only…
October 13, 2016, 11:32 AM IST
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