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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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With SP support, RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary could be opposition candidate for Kairana bypoll

He is viewed as a candidate with great potential for victory, and the SP-BSP combine may back him to ensure a repeat of Gorakhpur & Phulpur losses for the BJP.

In letter to CM Yogi, grandmother of alleged Unnao rape victim had feared for son’s life

The victim’s father died Monday at a hospital, allegedly of injuries sustained in an assault by MLA Kuldip Singh Senger’s brother Atul and their aides on 3 April in Unnao.

How Akhilesh Yadav could change the SP’s Yadav-party image

The Samajwadi Party continues to be seen as a party of only Yadavs and Muslims, both communities that tend to alienate other voters.

When BJP wins, it credits vikas; when it loses, it shamelessly blames caste

Not only does the BJP play the game of caste politics, it has been playing it better than anyone else.

How bitter rivals BSP and SP came together for Gorakhpur and Phulpur LS bypolls

Mayawati insists it’s not an alliance, but the two arch-rivals joining hands is still a significant development in India’s most politically-significant state.

I won’t take lead to forge opposition alliance against BJP- Pawar

Even as attempts are being made by the opposition to cobble a grand opposition alliance to take on the seemingly invincible BJP, Nationalist Congress Party chief and veteran politician Sharad Pawar Wednesday said he would not lead such an effort.

“Museum wahin banayenge!”

All politics is symbolic, and the BJP is replacing realpolitik with symbolic politics, especially in Ayodhya, by trying to build a museum.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.