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Topic: Mahagatbandhan

Bengal stands up to ask for more

And the CPM can't understand why - while Mamata says she is ready to deliver.

BJP ties up with 6 parties in Northeast ahead of Lok Sabha elections

The BJP is targeting 22 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats across eight states in the northeast.

Hindu’s exclusive fires Rafale attack at Modi’s PMO

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Congress goes all-in for its first rally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan in 30 years

The Congress, which had got reduced to just 4 MLAs in Bihar 10 years ago, plans to get at least 1.5 lakh people to attend the 3 February rally.

How Congress & NCP evolved into an aggressive, united opposition in Maharashtra

Over four years in opposition, Congress and NCP have moved from being reluctant allies to joining hands again ahead of Lok Sabha & Maharashtra polls next year.

Democratic compulsion to unite, says Naidu after meeting Rahul Gandhi

Naidu met a host of opposition leaders such as Pawar and Farooq, trio says country’s institutions being destroyed.

In Mayawati’s selfish politics, there’s no room for opposition unity

BSP supremo Mayawati has always preferred to maintain a reasonable distance from the bogey of so-called ‘opposition unity’.

Rahul Gandhi let Nitish Kumar go into the BJP’s waiting arms—and wants him to stay there

Rahul’s handling of the Bihar mahagatbandhan shows why opposition unity is so difficult.

What suits Narendra Modi and Amit Shah better— Rahul Gandhi or a faceless mahagathbandhan?

BJP president Amit Shah urged party workers in poll-bound Rajasthan to ask people if they wanted Rahul Gandhi as prime minister and Mamata Banerjee...

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Population causes poverty is the devil’s philosophy. It causes prosperity: Sauvik Chakraverti

Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.