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Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is weighed against silver during the inauguration of the Diamond Hall at the Mumbai Diamond Merchants Association in Mumbai on Monday. PTI Photo (PTI9_30_2013_000213B)

Feet of clay

The aura of incorruptibility assiduously built around the Narendra Modi government is getting tarnished by the allegations of political linkages to th

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Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, 28/02/2016:

Praveen Khandelwal, National Secretary-General of Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), New Delhi, at the meeting organised by Tirupati Chamber of Commerce on Sunday. -----Ph0to: K_V_POORNACHANDRA_KUMAR

‘A lot of doublespeak by Prime Minister’

Interview with Praveen Khandelwal of the Confederation of All India Traders.

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BENGALURU - KARNATAKA 11/02/2017 : Politician Manish Tewari, and lawyer, during Session 2: Draconian Laws: Defamation, Sedition, Contempt and Privileges, on Day 2 of The Hindu's first idea conclave, The Huddle 2017, in Bengaluru on February 11, 2017. Photo : K. Murali Kumar. BENGALURU - KARNATAKA 11/02/2017 : Politician Manish Tewari, and lawyer, during Session 2: Draconian Laws: Defamation, Sedition, Contempt and Privileges, on Day 2 of The Hindu's first idea conclave, The Huddle 2017, in Bengaluru on February 11, 2017. Photo : K. Murali Kumar. -

‘The government’s silence is ominous’

Interview with Manish Tewari, Congress leader.

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LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, 21/01/2018:RAJNATH AWARDS CITIZENSHIP TO PAKISTANI SINDHIS:: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh awarded Certificate of Citizenship to 56 Pakistani Sindhis at a function in Lucknow on January 21, 2018.
Photo: Rajeev Bhatt.

Treading cautiously

Senior BJP leaders admit that deportation of illegal immigrants is near impossible though it has been on the party’s agenda in Assam.

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BENGALURU - KARNATAKA - 02/04/2017 : BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, during the NDTV Frauds - book release function, at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, in Bengaluru on April 02, 2017. Photo K Murali Kumar

'A case of internal sabotage'

Interview with Subramanian Swamy.

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India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi gestures during the release of the BJP party manifesto in New Delhi on April 7, 2014, on the opening day of voting in national elections. India's prime ministerial frontrunner Narendra Modi pledged good governance and development as he released his party's delayed manifesto that also included controversial Hindu nationalist policies. Modi and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders unveiled their blueprint for government just hours after polls opened in the world's biggest election, which they are widely expected to win. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN

Silence of the crusaders

The verdict in the 2G spectrum case seems to have undermined the BJP’s propaganda blitz about corruption during the United Progressive Alliance regime

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New Delhi: Newly elect Congress President Rahul Gandhi receives greetings from supporters after taking charge during an event held at the lawns of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in New Delhi on Saturday. PTI Photo(PTI12_16_2017_000105B)

Long road ahead

With his formal elevation as Congress president, Rahul Gandhi now faces several challenges to lift his party from the doldrums.

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HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, 1-04-2017: State Bank of Hyderabad undergoes a name change across the city in Hyderabad, in the aftermath of merger of five banks into SBI across the country.Photo: K.V.S. Giri

A losing game

With Reliance Payment Bank, a joint venture between Reliance Industries Limited and SBI, set to begin operations in December, there is widespread conc

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NEW DELHI, 01/11/2017: Standalone----- Large numer of families comprising infants and minors migrate from rural areas especially from Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Bihar arrive in the Capital looking for work, a scene outside New Delhi Railway Station, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: V. Sudershan

Real estate woes

As if demonetisation was not enough to break the back of the real estate sector, RERA and GST followed. Experts say it will take a minimum of two year

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NEW DELHI: 19/11/2009: Farmers from North India staging a protest at Jantar Mantar against the anti farmers policies of the Central Government, organised by Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), in New Delhi, on November 19, 2009. Photo: V. Sudershan

Displacing dissent

With the National Green Tribunal banning all protests, dharnas and demonstrations at the historical Jantar Mantar, the already shrinking space for dem

PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in New Delhi

05/04/2014 MUMBAI: State Bank of India, Headquarters in Mumbai. Photo: Paul Notonha

Dangers in a Bill

The Resolution Corporation that the Central government is planning to set up through an Act of Parliament can result in a clean-up of banks and other

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New Delhi: Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari at a conference 'India On the Cusp of a Logistics Revolution 'Key to Transformation of the Indian Economy', organised by the ASSOCHAM India in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI Photo by Kamal Kishore (PTI7_13_2017_000013A)

In-house feud

The Uttarakhand Chief Minister ignores Nitin Gadkari’s advice and orders a CBI probe against officials of the Union Ministry for Road Transport and Hi

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