Special of the Day

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress decision to rope in political strategist Prashant Kishor to refurbish its image and come up triumphant in the West Bengal assembly polls two years from…

Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Days after her Trinamool Congress suffered huge reverses in the Lok Sabha polls, a visibly distraught West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had promised to “take care of my party”. True…

By Milinda Ghosh Roy Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) With the recent Lok Sabha elections making the political scenario of West Bengal largely bipolar between Trinamool Congress and the BJP, the Left Front, once a formidable…

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Pilloried by the BJP for alleged appeasement politics, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to shed her image of being only pro-minorities to regain the ground…

Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) A no-holds barred political war is on in West Bengal between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the aggressive opposition BJP, with the rivals engaged in a close and often violent duel…

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Pitching for abrogation of Article 370, Kashmiri Pandits feel the provision granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir is one of the major reasons for their exodus from the Valley,…

By Rajnish Singh New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Ever since Amit Shah took over as the Union Home Minister nearly two months back, the Centres policy on Jammu and Kashmir has become tougher, leading to…

Srinagar, July 24 (IANS) Just the mention of “Article 370” divides Jammu and Kashmir state on regional lines. While Jammu overwhelmingly wants the provision to be scrapped from the Constitution, Kashmir valley-centric parties, across board,…

By Sumit Saxena New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The constitutional validity of contentious Article 370 has been put to test again! Legal experts believe that the Article is temporary in nature, and avenues have not…

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Article 370 remains hot button, contrarian views and emotions swirl around the moment it is mentioned — some incendiary and others more subdued. At the very kernel of our constitutional…

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Post the seminal Delhi Agreement, a general sense of ennui soon drifted into the Valley, with the people getting the sense that they had become more weak, as Delhi continued…

New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) As Home Minister Amit Shah grapples with the Kashmir issue, looking at various options to resolve the vexatious problem, the Trump bomb has created needless consternation. Under Westphalian sovereignty system…

Jaipur, July 23 (IANS) Ever since the defeat of the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls early this year — barely six months after the party’s impressive victory in the Assembly polls — the differences…

New Delhi/Bengaluru, July 23 (IANS) Unable to woo back its 14 MLAs who have tendered their resignations, the Congress is mulling the idea of disqualifying them, party sources indicated. “The rebel MLAs have resigned from…

Bhopal, July 23 (IANS) The developments in Karnataka and Goa cast their shadow over the government in Madhya Pradesh but the ruling coalition led by the Congress and comprising BSP, SP and Independents has managed…

New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) As Congress faces a serious threat to its coalition government in Karnataka, its leaders D K Shivakumar, Mallikarjun Kharge and K.C. Venugopal are engaged in a firefighting operation to salvage…

By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, July 23 (IANS) The Telangana Assembly has nearly become ‘Congress-mukt’ with the defection of 12 of its legislators to ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), even as one more Congress MLA has…

Panaji, July 23 (IANS) Reduced to the status of a political shopping mall for the Goa BJP to pick up MLAs from, the Congress which has been reduced to five MLAs in the 40-member state…