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Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi at the Congress Working Committee meeting at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on August 10.

Congress' missed opportunity to elect a new chief

The Congress party opts for Sonia Gandhi as interim president, dashing hopes raised by Rahul Gandhi that a non-Gandhi could lead the party.

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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Unnao rape case: The story of an unravelling

The case reflects the collapse of law and order in Uttar Pradesh.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays his respects to Syama Prasad Mookerjee at Parliament House on the occasion of his birth anniversary, a file picture.

RSS' agenda on Kashmir in action

The BJP uses its brute parliamentary majority to fulfil the RSS’ long-pending demand to annul Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and take the first st

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War-disabled retired army personnel ahead of participating in Mumbai Marathon 2018 outside Sainik Institute in Colaba on January 20, 2018.

Armed forces personnel up in arms over tax on disability pension

The government’s decision to tax disability pension of armed forces personnel who remained in service until retirement has invited strong protests.

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At the Congress party headquarters in New Delhi on May 23.

Leadership vacuum in the Congress party

For two months, even at the cost of the party’s disintegration in many States, the Congress has been staring at the vacuum left by Rahul Gandhi’s deci

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Sharda University, one of the prominent private universities in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Ordinance: Autonomy under threat

The Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Ordinance to bring “uniformity” in higher education may have run into rough weather, but the State government p

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Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi and party president Rahul Gandhi during a CPP meeting in New Delhi on June 1.

Time to introspect

The monumental defeat in the general election has created a crisis of confidence in the Congress, which urgently needs to resolve internal issues and

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Ravi Shankar Prasad, the NDA candidate in the Patna Sahib seat, during a rally at Usfa village near Patna on May 17.

On a platter

The NDA makes history with an unprecedented mandate in this crucial State by winning all but one seat as muscular nationalism trumps caste calculation

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Chief Minister Raghubar Das celebrating victory in the Lok Sabha election with party workers at the Jharkhand BJP headquarters in Ranchi on May 23.

Complete surprise

Defying trends visible on the ground during campaigning, Jharkhand once again goes the BJP way.

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Misa Bharati, RJD candidate from Patliputra, along with mother Rabri Devi and brother Tej Pratap Yadav, arriving to file her nomination papers for the election, in Patna on April 25.

Shifting sands

Caste calculations and the might of the mahagathbandhan outweigh the support for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in the constituencies that g

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally in Lohardanga on April 24.

Tribal resentment

The BJP seems armed with little apart from the Modi factor in a State where the consolidation of tribal and minority votes in favour of the opposition

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from right) and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan (left) at an election rally in Bhagalpur on April 11.

Hindutva push

The BJP pitches for militant Hindutva and muscular nationalism in Bihar, while the Congress and other opposition alliance partners seem unable to get

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