The Nishads, a community of boatmen, account for 18% of Gorakhpur voters and were key to BJP's defeat in 2018 bypoll. But this time, they are in alliance.
In Everyday Communalism: Riots in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh, authors Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar make a serious attempt to understand the contemporary form of communal politics in India.
Encephalitis immunisation is not handled by experts, rendering it useless. Doctors also say patients reach them too late, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
Not much has changed at BRD Medical College since the August horror. There aren’t enough doctors, ventilators and at least five children bundled up in a single warmer.
Since 1979, Iran has used the Palestinian issue as a façade for its regional agenda to oppose American diplomacy, the Western world, and the existence of Israel.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
More than four years remain of the second term. Once the dust settles from all that is happening around us, if there is serious intent to regain the initiative and to not allow the sense of drift, later crisis, to grow, one of the early corrective steps would be to give Uttar Pradesh a fine Chief Minister, someone with a development vision. The earlier choice was surprising, a gamble that has not paid off. The gradient is steepening. The earlier complacent view that any lamppost can be installed anywhere and it will dispel darkness is now an unaffordable luxury.
More than four years remain of the second term. Once the dust settles from all that is happening around us, if there is serious intent to regain the initiative and to not allow the sense of drift, later crisis, to grow, one of the early corrective steps would be to give Uttar Pradesh a fine Chief Minister, someone with a development vision. The earlier choice was surprising, a gamble that has not paid off. The gradient is steepening. The earlier complacent view that any lamppost can be installed anywhere and it will dispel darkness is now an unaffordable luxury.