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Thursday, August 28, 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

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.