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Mamata slams BJP for misusing forces as violence erupts in 4th phase of polls in West Bengal

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said law & order is a state subject and accused BJP of bringing in central forces and using them to garner votes.

Elections have become a convenient season to suddenly discover religion: Arun Jaitley

Without getting into issue of whether a person can inherit grandmother’s caste, Congress has proclaimed Rahul Gandhi a ‘Janeu-dhari Brahmin’.

SP nominates former BSF constable Tej Bahadur Yadav to take on PM Modi in Varanasi

In 2017, Tej Bahadur Yadav was dismissed from the Border Security Force (BSF) after he uploaded a video about the poor quality of food being served to jawans.

BJP wants Election Commission to deploy central forces in all polling booths of West Bengal

In its complaint, BJP alleged that Trinamool workers indulged in violence during fourth phase of polling in West Bengal.

Watch me eat, sleep, kill mosquitoes & vote for me — a candid camera Congress campaign

Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Congress candidate for the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat, beams his day-to-day activities live to his 5.35 lakh followers.

Mumbai breaks jinx of low voter turnout as four of six seats cross 50% mark

Mumbai North clocked 54.72 per cent turnout, the highest among the six seats, followed by Mumbai North East at 52.3 per cent and Mumbai South Central at 51.53 per cent.

Shatrughan Sinha has a problem – he still thinks he has to attack Congress

Congress workers are finding it hard to warm up to Shatrughan Sinha, who switched over from BJP this month. His unwitting jibes at Congress don't help.

BJP is staring at a crisis in ‘Jatland’ and Sunny Deol is just another quick-fix solution

Sunny Deol’s candidature is another BJP attempt to produce Jat leaders, without whom it is politically hamstrung in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and western UP.

The Haryana leader who’s uniting anti-Jat forces and could hurt BJP & Congress

Former BJP MP Rajkumar Saini is the man behind the Lok Suraksha Party, an astute political formula consolidating the anti-Jat vote in Haryana.

Why Odisha wants more and more of Naveen Patnaik, it’s 4-time chief minister

Naveen Patnaik, the Odisha CM, continues to hold sway in the state through a carefully-cultivated clean image, pro-poor policies and media management.

On Camera

I turned up at Asha Bhosle’s door as a fan. She invited me home

The words she wrote in our autograph book echo in my mind now: 'Mar kar bhi jo jeete hain, wohi jeete hain'—The only lives worth living are those remembered long after death.

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.