His absence will be felt because of his decision taking ability and rapport with armed forces.
'She should review her strategy of social engineering and get back to the BSP's initial plank of social change.'
Experts say Indian students will have to accept that international space for them is shrinking.
Increments in 2017 would be less than in 2016, says survey.
Punjab has around 19.7 million voters, of whom 53% are below the age of 40 years.
Anti-incumbency sentiment in Punjab puts SAD in a weak spot. But voters remain divided over AAP and Congress. Sahil Makkar reports.
The only factor working against the AAP, and in favour of the Congress, is the infighting in the former.
Akhilesh believes his catchment area is the 4.1 million new voters who are 18 to 19 years old.
In the fourth of a six-part series Sahil Makkar finds out how badly Jalandhar's sports goods industry was hit by the note ban and the price it continues to pay.
despite an Election Commission notification, disallowing tax benefits on cash donations to political parties, the cash contribution increased from 0.14% in FY15 to 1.42% in FY16.
He began his career sorting mail. Today, he is one of India's best known television anchors, whose mails are hacked by Legion.
There is anti-incumbency in urban areas. Rural Punjab, the Akali base, will hold the key.
In the concluding article of a six-part series, Business Standard visits Ludhiana, one of the largest industrial towns in Punjab, to assess the effect of demonetisation.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
Even as there is a strong anti-incumbency mood in Punjab, the multi-cornered contest has made the 2017 assembly polls prediction more difficult.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar wants the Modi government and BJP to reap the profit of the surgical strikes. But electoral history suggests a political party's ability to exploit military successes for poll gains has a mixed record.
Most villagers decided to stay back to harvest crops, their only source of livelihood.
We have brought about a slew of reforms that would help improve governance and also facilitate industrial growth, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tells Sahil Makkar.
Officials say many politicians and retired bureaucrats make every effort to stay in these government bungalows.
Can the country afford to have problems of such magnitude in the cities of Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, which not only are the major growth drivers but are also the biggest revenue contributors in their respective states?
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