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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicIndian Politics

Topic: Indian Politics

TMC MP Saket Gokhale apologises to diplomat Lakshmi Puri for tweets containing ‘unverified allegations’

In a series of tweets, Gokhale had levelled unverified allegations in relation to the purchase of property by Ambassador Puri abroad.

There is no scope for politicking, says Kiren Rijiju on impeachment motion against HC judge Yashwant Varma

‘The impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma is a matter related to corruption in the judiciary...So, we would like to have a united stand,’ added Union Minister Rijiju.

Final hours of Lal Bahadur Shastri: An Urdu couplet, call with daughter & media criticism

In 'The Great Conciliator', Sanjeev Chopra draws on meticulous research to make a case for reassessing the legacy of India's unassuming second prime minister.

SubscriberWrites: Structural Reforms in Indian Politics

The solution lies in decentralization and a fundamental restructuring of India's political framework.

SubscriberWrites: Selective Outrage—India’s liberals & media misled by I.N.D.I.A alliance

The alliance includes parties and leaders who have been complicit in or have directly supported practices and policies that contradict the very principles that it seems to represent.

Election body rejects Congress’s EVM concerns as ‘frivolous, unfounded’

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's election panel has rejected a complaint by Congress, the largest opposition party, regarding vote counting in recent state elections that dashed its expectations, warning

Modi has turned power into spiritual. National is personal to him

'Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade', edited by Aishwarya Pandit, covers a range of social, political, and cultural changes across India during PM Modi's last 10-year rule.

Prajwal Revanna case shows why and how sexual crimes by men in politics can go unchecked for years

It would be a disservice to the women of Hassan to look at Prajwal Revanna’s alleged abuse of power as a ‘sex scandal’. Allegations against him show what ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ actually means.

How BJP is using 2024 Lok Sabha election to lay groundwork for post-Modi succession plan

The BJP is bringing up a whole new set of MPs, CMs, ministers, MLAs, who will pay a crucial role if and when PM Modi hangs up his boots and there is a battle for succession.

SubscriberWrites: The dichotomy in Governance and Political system in India

Candidates spending huge sums of money during elections ,try to recover those 'expenses' during their tenure, proliferating corrupt practices, impeding progress and development.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.