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26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed operates freely despite Pakistan’s claims of crackdown

Saeed's 'charity' JuD has also had its assets frozen but continues to function as usual.

BJP picks Biplab Kumar Deb to be the next chief minister of Tripura

Tripura will get a non-Left Chief Minister after 20 years.

‘Match is going fine, don’t throw a no-ball’ — Modi’s message to party MPs after NE win

Modi asks party MPs to ensure positive news about the party in media; remark assumes significance in the wake of pulling down of Lenin statue in Tripura.

Police lost track of Gauri Lankesh murder suspect after Hindu Right-wing leader’s arrest

SIT says news of Hindu Yuva Sene founder’s arrest could have alerted the suspect, who had been under police surveillance for months

UP govt’s solution for struggling entrepreneurs in state: getting them listed on BSE, NSE

State signs MoUs with BSE, NSE to train cash-strapped small-scale entrepreneurs in the ways of the stock exchange.

Yogi as poll campaigner: BJP to replicate Tripura experiment in Karnataka

BJP and its ally IPFT won 8 of the nine seats in Tripura where Yogi had campaigned; UP CM is said to have a close link with the Mangaluru-based Jogi Math.

The valuable lessons for Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi & the Left from northeast poll results

Here are ten takeaways from the battle for the northeast, the first big election verdict of 2018.

In Yogi’s ‘encounter Pradesh’ dead gangsters tell tales of torture and fishy bullet wounds

Since the BJP government took over in March last year, 39 alleged gangsters have been killed in encounters. None of them was on the ‘most wanted’ list.

Congress won’t leave any stone unturned to ensure opposition unity, says Ahmed Patel

Party warhorse says Narendra Modi's talk of 'simultaneous polls' is an election gimmick, says PM's 'graph has been falling'.

Yeddyurappa will remain CM, says BJP, scotching talk of ‘change of guard’

There has been speculation, even within BJP, that Yeddyurappa, 75, may have to make way for Union minister Hegde.

On Camera

Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

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.