You don’t see any big billboards; there are no wall writings, very few flexes, and rarely do you spot a publicity vehicle. Elections have gone underground.
Barmer district officials and panchayats are rushing to seal the wells with concrete to stop the women jumping into them, often along with their children.
By not recognising same-sex marriage, the country is pushing competent homosexuals to migrate abroad, where they are afforded dignity in equal measure as any other citizen.
The migrating men claim that they are being persecuted by the Indian govt due to their Sikh identity. The hope is that they will get asylum on humanitarian grounds.
BJP’s pro-business, pro-economic reform image is now being dented, even though this regime is better positioned to make positive change than most before it.
Modi didn’t mention wrestlers in Sunday’s Mann ki Baat. But the message was unmistakable: his govt’s women empowerment record can't be blemished by partymen's alleged misdeeds.
The wrestlers protests against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations is now snowballing and wrapping in farmers' anger and Jat pride too. Haryana's Khap panchayat leaders are also joining in.
Congress’s strategy is to expose alleged shortcomings in governance. BJP, meanwhile, is doing what it does best — seat-by-seat micro-management while focussing on the PM’s appeal.
Shashi, a CRPF soldier in J&K, loves donning the ghoonghat when she’s at her in-laws’. She defends India’s terrains with the same gusto with which she guards her children.
Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the US, once said it was better to have enemies 'inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.' Delhi needs to decide if he was right.
Latest report by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs says global growth to be faster than estimated earlier & India’s 'robust performance' to boost South Asia’s growth.
India’s defence sector is trying to penetrate the African market. But with China already extending significant influence, India must now play catch-up.
Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?
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