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I was trying to bust ‘love jihad’ theory, says filmmaker at centre of JNU screening row

Eyewitnesses described “riot-like scenes” during the screening of the film at JNU Friday evening, with some people reportedly lobbing glass shards and stones and trying to attack viewers.

Rahul Gandhi returns to Ramlila Maidan as Congress starts to get its act together for 2019

As Congress launches its 2019 campaign, its new president seeks to balance the old and young generations within and convey that he's a changed person.

Maratha MLA Patil takes over NCP reins in Maharashtra ahead of election year

The party is facing a credibility crisis in the wake of corruption allegations against senior leaders Chhagan Bhujbal, Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare.

Maharashtra NCP eyes image makeover ahead of 2019, to pick new state president on Sunday

Maratha leaders Jayant Patil, who is close to party chief Sharad Pawar, and Shashikant Shinde are frontrunners for the post.

Drinking is the ancestral business of Yadavs and Rajputs: UP minister Rajbhar

OBC leader makes controversial statement, saying the two dominant communities consume the most amount of alcohol, not his own Rajbhar community as alleged.

Now, Rahul promises Congress will listen to Karnataka’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ in its manifesto

The grand old party has promised the creation of 15-20 lakh jobs annually for the next 5 years, and empower farmers, women and children.

Now, RSS activists want a shakha in India’s oldest Muslim university

The move is aimed at countering what is alleged 'misinformation' by the university against the sangh. 

The ‘2+1’ equation that Modi will use to corner Congress and Siddaramiah in Karnataka

PM Modi will hit the campaign trail in Karnataka on 1 May with a new slogan to attack the Congress government and CM Siddaramaiah.

The agenda for Modi & Xi meeting is to get China to stop kicking sand in India’s face

For India's partners across the world, the Modi government’s pursuit of a “reset” with China should be a warning that it isn't ready to counter China's rise.

‘Ex-girlfriends & harassment victim’ of Karnataka MLAs are campaigning to make them ex-MLAs

BJP’s Renukacharya and Ramadas, as well as Congress’s Meti, are facing campaigns from women who claim they’ve been wronged by them personally.

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.