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How 2021 Antilia bomb scare has come back to bite Mahayuti & MVA in poll-bound Maharashtra

Key characters Parambir Singh and Sachin Waze, who had dominated Maharashtra’s political discourse for a bit 3 years ago, have re-emerged as MVA and BJP try to corner one another.

‘Don’t need any schooling’ — RS Chairman Dhankhar tells Jaya Bachchan in 2nd Budget session face-off

Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan demanded apology from RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar who accused Oppn of ‘trying to destabilise the nation & create chaos in the House’.

Waqf bill, law against ‘love, land jihad’ — why BJP’s returning to polarising politics after LS setback

In run up to assembly polls, experts say BJP is going back to the drawing board & making changes to its strategy. Opposition calls party's actions 'anti-Muslim'. 

Move to extend bar & hotel opening hours part of Karnataka govt push to replenish drying coffers

State finances have been impacted in past few years, with govt blaming lower inflows from Centre, but Congress's welfare schemes also form major chunk of expenditure.

How very similar clean chits in decade-old cases have now landed 2 DMK ministers back on trial

Madras High Court has reopened disproportionate assets cases against DMK ministers KKSSR Ramachandran and Thangam Thennarasu, saying probe agency DVAC had ‘misused its power’.

Month after Rahul’s pep talk, Gujarat Congress launching ‘Nyay Yatra’ from Morbi to Gandhinagar

Congress Seva Dal chief says idea behind yatra in Gujarat is to make people aware that many tragedies could have been prevented had corruption not been so rife in the state.

Look out for ‘traditional friends’ — Swapan Dasgupta urges Shah to be ‘more understanding’ on Bangladesh

His remark came in backdrop of reports that former Awami League MP Kamarul Arefin and his family were prevented by BSF from entering India without valid visa.

‘Haircuts cutting people’s necks’ — Oppn says govt ‘friendly’ to corporates while middle class suffers

Oppn also criticises Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's comment on the money spent on the training of wrestler Vinesh Phogat.

PF rerouted to beverage corp, local body funds used to pay discom dues — Jagan govt’s ‘fiscal fudge’

Buggana Rajendranath, who was YSRCP finance minister, says there was no financial impropriety in resource mobilisation by their govt & Naidu too resorted to such practices earlier.

Waqf Amendment Bill to be referred to joint parliamentary committee after Oppn calls it ‘anti-Muslim’

'Were non-Hindus part of Ram temple committee?' asks Congress's Vengugopal. Minority affairs minister Rijiju says Sachar committee too recommended that waqf board should be broad-based.

On Camera

Mamata’s brush with protesting doctors serves a lesson. She’s now a failed Chief Minister

In the last 42 days of cease work, the junior doctors achieved unprecedented support from the people of Kolkata and beyond. And very little concessions from CM Mamata Banerjee.

Chemistry of curd to physics of paratha, GST rates on food are a multi-disciplinary tangle

Issue of GST on food items is in news again after hotel owner’s viral interaction with Finance Minister Sitharaman last week. But complexities highlighted go back further in time.

Indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant joins Navy’s Western Fleet, ready for deployment

With the integration of the deck-based fighter jets MiG-29K now complete, Vikrant now has an overall capability to carry 30 helicopters and fixed-wing fighters.

BJP’s Northeast policy has lit new fires & reopened old wounds. And it still won’t blink

Manipur represents BJP’s unique ideological approach to governing Northeast by playing identity politics jiu-jitsu. It hasn’t gone well yet, is getting worse, but the party insists on continuing.