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MLAs loyal to Sachin Pilot demand floor test to ‘expose’ Ashok Gehlot govt’s strength

Amid growing political tension in Rajasthan, the Ashok Gehlot camp has claimed that 109 MLAs, both of Congress and others, are in support of the government.

Sachin Pilot sacked as Rajasthan Dy CM & state Congress chief, says ‘truth can’t be defeated’

OBC leader and Education Minister Govind Singh Dotsara is new state party chief. Congress leader Randeep Surjewala says BJP trying to topple govt and Pilot has become a part of this conspiracy.

Shiv Sena targets BJP over Rajasthan politics, accuses it of encouraging horse trading

In its mouthpiece Saamana, the party asked BJP what it would achieve with the political misadventure in the "desert", and said this would turn the India's democracy into a desert.

Murders, ‘victimisation’, no political clout — UP Brahmins angry after Vikas Dubey killing

A number of Brahmin organisations are using Vikas Dubey's 'encounter' killing to assert that Yogi administration is victimising them.

BJP is sceptical about Sachin Pilot’s numbers, says it’s ready to play a ‘Test match’

Leaders say BJP is watching the Rajasthan political drama closely, and believes the Gehlot-Pilot rift is deep, so it will have an opportunity to strike later.

Gandhis step in to resolve Rajasthan crisis, Priyanka Vadra calls up Sachin Pilot 

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra listened to Sachin Pilot patiently as he said he was not being given his due and, instead, was at the receiving end of petty politics by Ashok Gehlot. 

18 Congress MLAs missing from Gehlot meeting, party says doors always open for Sachin Pilot

Senior leader Randeep Surjewala insists Rajasthan govt stable as a majority of the MLAs are set to attend the CLP meeting. The Congress has 107 MLAs in Rajasthan.

How and why Ashok Gehlot ‘baited’ Sachin Pilot to turn rebel

Congress leaders say the real objective of the police notice to Pilot was to send him the Jyotiraditya Scindia way, without destabilising Gehlot’s government.

Scindia faction wins, gets plum depts in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s cabinet allocation in MP

After 11 days of intense squabbling, loyalists of Jyotiraditya Scindia have bagged key departments such as revenue, health and energy. Read the full list here.

Why Congress making Hardik Patel Gujarat working president goes beyond his Patidar identity

Hardik Patel is a fiery orator and has a mass connect beyond caste and class. He says he will do exactly what he has been doing so far — reach out to people.

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.