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Their Master’s Voice: Vala joins long list of governors who toed the Delhi political line

Since 1957, several governors have taken decisions guided by the central government instead of the rulebook. A look at history throws up many controversial names.

Karnataka’s Vala continues notorious tradition of governors taking risks with the courts

Time and again, the role played by state governors in independent India has invited adverse comments from court and government-appointed commissions.

Karnataka fallout: Congress to meet Goa governor Friday to protest ‘double standards’

Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar says party is yet to decide whether it wants to stake claim to form government and ask for time to prove majority.

Karnataka hung assembly: Time to end ambiguity or leave it to governor’s discretion?

It is now up to governor Vajubhai Vala to decide who he invites to form the government. Both the BJP and the Congress-JD (S) alliance have staked claim. Experts weigh in.

Today’s judgment puts India on par with other Islamic countries in a good way: Najma Heptulla

In an exclusive interview with ThePrint, the former minority affairs minister Heptulla discussed triple talaq, as well as Islam’s interpretation of marriage.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.