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In Shimla’s IAF vs Army fight, nationalism & Balakot battle jobs & highways

BJP's Suresh Kashyap, an ex-IAF personnel, is banking on national security while his rival, Congress' Col Dhani Ram (retd) is 'aghast the Army is being politicised'.

As BJP & Congress fight over surgical strikes, India’s stand on national security is exposed

India is in no position to compel Pakistan and the country will adhere to its strategy of a calibrated proxy war.

Tamasha TV for a tamasha PM: How Indian media covered Modi this election

There are Facebook surveys, WhatsApp polls, interviews in lawns of Modi's home and chats with Rahul Gandhi between rallies and chopper rides.

Modi lists out abuses hurled at him by Congress, accuses party of wearing mask of love

Modi alleged that Congress leaders had called him him an insect, mad dog, Bhasmasura, and did not even spare his mother.

Supreme Court refuses to hear Congress plea on Modi-Shah poll code violations

The Supreme Court refused to hear the plea stating that the Election Commission had already taken a decision.

17th Lok Sabha looks set to confirm Ambedkar’s fears: no vocal Dalits in Parliament

India has a dichotomous situation — vocal Dalits in college campuses and on the streets, and silent Dalits in Parliament.

Answer to Modi’s Rajiv Gandhi challenge to Congress lies in Punjab’s 1985 elections

Modi wants Congress to campaign in Rajiv Gandhi's name in Punjab, a veiled dig at the ex-PM's alleged role in 1984 anti-Sikh riots. But party actually fared well even after the riots.

5 years on, Baba Ramdev isn’t smitten by Modi & Patanjali will back any pro-farmer govt

Yoga guru Ramdev was among Modi's unabashed backers in 2014 but five years on, there are mixed signals from the Patanjali founder.

Atishi, will AAP also treat Muslims as just a pliant, fearful votebank, asks Umar Khalid

Aam Aadmi Party is taking the Muslim for granted, with a sense of entitlement about their votes while short-circuiting real issues.

Motilal Nehru, ‘moderate’ Congress freedom fighter who fought for self-rule

On his 158th birth anniversary, ThePrint remembers Motilal Nehru — lawyer, freedom fighter and father of India's first prime minister.

On Camera

No insult to Ayurveda. AIIMS an attempt to bring good standards of medical education—Amrit Kaur

On 18 February 1956, 'Rajkumari' Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, moved the Bill in Lok Sabha for the establishment of AIIMS in Delhi. She wanted it to have the powers and functions of a university because it will 'probably make revolutionary changes in curriculum as well as in modes of teaching'.

Cash-strapped Karnataka hikes fuel tax by Rs 3/l, could earn Rs 2,500-3,000 cr more per yr

Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.

With an eye on China, IAF expands taxi track at Leh airport, new shelters being built

Expanded taxi track is smaller than those meant for civilian operations, but is long enough for fighters & military transport aircraft to operate.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.