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5 reasons why Azam Khan can only dream of becoming India’s PM
September 22, 2016, 5:50 PM IST
Senior Uttar Pradesh minister, Azam Khan, also the loudest mouth in chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s cabinet, has managed to grab headlines again. On Wednesday in Barabanki district, the motor mouth said, “Make me the Prime…
September 22, 2016, 5:50 PM IST
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No better time than now for Modi to break out of the terrorism logjam
September 22, 2016, 4:15 AM IST
As usual, after a major terrorist attack, we have had a few days of jingoism. One journalist tweets that ‘this India’ has moved on from strategic restraint. Television anchors burst a few blood vessels urging…
September 22, 2016, 4:15 AM IST
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When Rahul Gandhi turned Sam Pitroda into a carpenter for OBC votes
September 21, 2016, 7:05 PM IST
Congress vice president, Rahul Gandhi, has been traversing across Uttar Pradesh with his Kisan Yatra that aims to reconnect his party with rural folk. His party is promising to waive off loans for farmers and…
September 21, 2016, 7:05 PM IST
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Amar Singh: The inside story of the ‘outsider’
September 20, 2016, 5:50 PM IST
Given the raging internal strife within the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in the past week where party leader, Amar Singh, was labelled as the ‘outsider’ and was blamed for creating mistrust within the Yadav clan,…
September 20, 2016, 5:50 PM IST
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The irony of Kashmir: An opinion
September 20, 2016, 4:13 PM IST
Mukul K Gupta The irony of Kashmir is that it never fully integrated with rest of India Being a border State, with a Muslim majority, the irony of the State of Jammu & Kashmir has…
September 20, 2016, 4:13 PM IST
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Uri attack: AMU does well to expel student after objectionable Facebook post
September 19, 2016, 7:17 PM IST
The country is in mourning and TV channels are still beaming live pictures of wreath laying ceremony for the 18 martyred soldiers who were killed after four heavily armed terrorists attacked an administrative base near…
September 19, 2016, 7:17 PM IST
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Uri attack: End rhetoric and fast track border fencing with Pakistan
September 19, 2016, 2:04 PM IST
India seems to have learnt no lessons from the past as four heavily armed terrorists managed to enter the rear of Army’s battalion headquarters in North Kashmir’s Uri town killing 17 soldiers and critically injuring…
September 19, 2016, 2:04 PM IST
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The rise of the political CFO is leaving tremors across parties
September 19, 2016, 5:24 AM IST
By Pranab Dhal Samanta Akhilesh Yadav always needed his father’s blessings in his politics. But never would he have thought that a day would come when his father would put such a premium on what he…
September 19, 2016, 5:24 AM IST
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PM should convene Cabinet Committee on Security on Uri attack on jawans
September 19, 2016, 2:47 AM IST
As articulated by the home minister Rajnath Singh, India’s stand is that Pakistan is behind the early morning September 18 attack on the army in which 17 jawans were killed by four Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) fidayeen…
September 19, 2016, 2:47 AM IST
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Arunachal U-turn: Congress loses its state government, but BJP can do better
September 19, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
Congress was left red-faced once again in Arunachal Pradesh as its chief minister Pema Khandu defected with all but one of the party’s 42 party MLAs – plus the Speaker – to the People’s Party…
September 19, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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New Arunachal government will be stable, NEDA will hopefully have 6 of 8 northeast state governments by 2019: Himanta Biswa Sarma
September 19, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
With 43 of its 44 MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh switching to People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), Congress has lost the state twice in two months and it is back within NDA’s umbrella. PPA is part…
September 19, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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Praja ke paas Yuvraj
September 18, 2016, 10:00 PM IST
Today the Congress online team worked really hard to make #RahulSharesPainOfUP trend on Twitter. This involved some truly moving pictures of the Yuvraj spending sweet times with the praja. Just like a fairy tale. Enjoy….
September 18, 2016, 10:00 PM IST
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Close shave: But for Akhilesh, Narendra Modi would still be Gujarat CM! 😜
September 18, 2016, 7:00 PM IST
When Lalu Prasad said in an interview this week that many leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalithaa and Nitish Kumar have the caliber to become prime minister, he was surely only echoing what…
September 18, 2016, 7:00 PM IST
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National parties’ Cauvery politics: One face for Bengaluru another for Chennai
September 17, 2016, 11:53 AM IST
After Bengaluru it was the turn of Chennai to suffer. As a TNN report on the Cauvery bandh in the Tamil Nadu capital on Friday puts it, political parties probably quantify the success of their…
September 17, 2016, 11:53 AM IST
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Yadav family feud: BJP and BSP would gain, even the Congress
September 17, 2016, 7:25 AM IST
The words ‘feud’ and ‘feudal’ have entirely different origins: feud comes from the old English and Germanic words that have also yielded modern ‘foe’, whereas ‘feudal’ derives from mediaeval Latin words linked to the modern…
September 17, 2016, 7:25 AM IST
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Shivpal Yadav: the real ‘dabangg’ of Samajwadi Party
September 16, 2016, 11:24 AM IST
As the battle intensifies within the Yadav clan of Uttar Pradesh, the senior-most minister in the cabinet, Shivpal Yadav, resigned from all posts after a brief meeting with chief minister Akhilesh Yadav last evening. Though…
September 16, 2016, 11:24 AM IST
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BJP’s Dalit woes mount in Uttar Pradesh
September 15, 2016, 6:11 PM IST
The rustication of eight Dalit students from Lucknow’s Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) without any show cause notice or proper investigation last week for allegedly manhandling staff members has gone largely unnoticed. But it threatens…
September 15, 2016, 6:11 PM IST
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Confusion And Rahul Gandhi: Gandhi scion’s UP campaign cannot resurrect party by harking back to older battles
September 15, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
He was photographed eating jalebis and samosas at a dusty roadside shop in Mau; ate roti-chokha for lunch with yet another Dalit couple, Rukmini Devi and Swaminath Ram, in the same district; and spouted a…
September 15, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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Split Wide Open: Public rift within SP’s top leadership is symptomatic of dynastic politics at the crossroads of change
September 15, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to take on his uncle Shivpal Yadav within the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) has sent shockwaves through the state’s polity. The family divide first led to Akhilesh sacking…
September 15, 2016, 2:00 AM IST
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Why Mulayam Singh Yadav needs the Bihar model in Uttar Pradesh
September 14, 2016, 5:37 PM IST
When Deepak Singhal was sacked as chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, it did surprise most, but what had the entire political class flummoxed was when chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav decided to strip his…
September 14, 2016, 5:37 PM IST
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