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ED, CBI, NIA and IT department have a lot at stake in upcoming assembly elections

Central investigation agencies are putting up valiant efforts yet again this election season. But they have always played an important role in Indian politics.

Why Congress must lose the assembly polls to stay united

Indira Gandhi had twice split the Congress to take on heavyweights. Sonia Gandhi knows Rahul or Priyanka can’t do that, yet.

Between Vajpayee and Modi era, RSS has learnt many political lessons

If during the Vajpayee government RSS showed its desperation to control its ideological protégé, the BJP, it now seeks to build on the political capital of Modi.

Shah’s CAA dilemma, Ram vs Durga, Dinesh Trivedi — Every day has a new twist in Bengal

The BJP has gone all out for Hindu consolidation in West Bengal, but if it wins, Matuas will expect it to expedite the CAA’s implementation.

Why PM Modi must worry about paper tigers surrounding him

PM Modi’s paper tigers roar against the opposition on TV and Twitter, but none venture out of Lutyens’ Delhi to go to the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders.

Haryana CM Khattar exposes Modi-Shah’s biggest flaw — as talent-hunters

The Modi-Shah strategy of experimenting with CMs has been unravelling one after another. Manohar Lal Khattar may be the latest example to prove its fallacy.

BJP raises the stakes for defectors, but the payback has started hurting

As more MLAs from TMC and other parties join BJP West Bengal, it looks poised to make the biggest-ever haul of pre-election defectors in one state.

What Shahnawaz Hussain’s shift to Bihar says about Muslim leaders’ options in BJP

Shahnawaz Hussain can pick up where Chirag Paswan had left off in ‘Mission Nitish Demolition’. The BJP can also ensure his induction as the sole Muslim face in Bihar cabinet.

In Modi’s Covid paathshaala, the CMs are learning an important political lesson

Modi will meet CMs over Covid Monday — the tenth time in ten months. It will again be a set of monologues, not a dialogue.

Thank you, Akhilesh Yadav. BJP can take its vaccine nationalism from here

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav erred big time with his ‘BJP’s vaccine’ comment. But it highlights how BJP is winning the battle of public perception in Covid management.

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India’s diplomatic failures aren’t just Trump’s fault. It’s the price of Modi’s narcissism

The Modi govt first put all its eggs into the US basket when the unipolar moment was clearly over. It subsequently overcorrected, accommodating an aggressive China.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.