'The Congress can exist without (someone from) the Nehru-Gandhi family being its president.'
'The Akali government is not responsible for the Punjab power crisis as Mr Sidhu is saying.'
'That would be very bad for them and suicidal for both the Gandhis and the Congress party.'
'The BJP is scared it may lose the Delhi municipal elections where they have been in power for the last 15 years.'
The Emperor of Bollywood Romance tries to play a lecher for the first time in his career.
'The Indian Army and paramilitary have to land more in Assam as the situation is very bad, especially in upper Assam,' says BJP MLA Binod Hazarika whose home was burnt down by mobs.
'She said she could have taken so much energy from her father had she got a chance to meet him before his death.'
'The people of Jharkhand know that Modi is not going to become chief minister, so why should they vote for the BJP?'
'All imaginary figures are pushed by government bureaucrats.' 'They never showed that the production of wheat was less this time.'
Now, let's wait for the movie, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Nothing 'accidental' about this movie, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'With the Citizenship Amendment Bill, Hindus from Pakistan can come to India. They have got a way,' says Gurumukh Jagwani who came to India on his honeymoon, loved the country so much that he stayed back and got Indian citizenship.
'The PM of India was 20 km away from the Pakistan border and he is one of the persons under extreme threat from that country and they put his life in danger.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com finds out why Sacred Games has run into trouble.
'In politics, not everything is spoken and there are a lot of messaging done very discreetly.'
Hamid Nihal Ansari, a software engineer from Mumbai, returned to India in December 2018 after spending six years in a Pakistani jail for illegally entering the neighbouring country from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He was arrested in 2012 and lodged at Peshawar jail after Pakistan had slapped espionage charges against him. The decision to release him was on account of relentless pressure from New Delhi and Sushma Swaraj, who was the external affairs minister and was personally monitoring the case. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, Ansari recalls the time he spent with her and says that if it wasn't for her efforts, he would still be rotting away in a Pakistani cell.
On his first visit to Srinagar post the abrogation of Article 370, Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that incidents of terrorism have declined and stone-throwing incidents too have ended in Jammu-Kashmir.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf unravels the chronology of controversy in the Aryan Khan drug bust case.
'People are questioning these highways and expressways in UP because ultimately, they want to get bread and butter first.'
The trailer is so gripping that you know something interesting is bound to happen, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Just keep telling people that we have fixed the Muslims, and they will not be bothered about their empty stomachs or empty wallets.'
'BJP has achieved its aim by making him a regional leader dependent on them.'
'Bommai's predicament is pathetic right now because deep inside he is not like this, but to remain in power he has to talk and speak against his own conscience.'
'Goa is a tiny state, but in terms of its Business of Politics, several powerful lobbies of India are involved in it, be it the mining lobby, hoteliers' lobby, casino lobby, hawala lobby, drugs lobby etc.'
'BJP takes Lingayat support and later on they throw them out, ditch them and humiliate them.' After months of speculation Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa resigned from the chief minister's post. A powerful Lingayat community leader, Yediyurappa could not even complete his term, owing to the internal politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party. So how does Lingayat community view his exit? Congress working president, Karnataka state and Lingayat leader Eshwar Khandre speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, said, "The community which voted him and felt that they will lead the government are now disenchanted."
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com tracks Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi's project-launching spree with just about three months to go for the assembly election in India's most populous state.
No one can make the audience laugh like Govinda, raves Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
... Why care for the truth when the legend so interesting, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'India's treatment to a member of parliament of Afghanistan was not good and I am very upset about this action.'
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains the charges against the Bollywood star.
'One man went berserk or rogue that does not mean the Mumbai police should be ashamed.'
Journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on August 18 for a retweet and has been in custody ever since.
'Two years ago I told Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi that we have traitors in the Congress.'
One of Sanjay Dutt's biggest fans will serve his restaurant's signature dish on February 25 to celebrate Dutt's release from jail.
After watching Uri: The Surgical Strike, Syed Firdaus Ashraf gets the feeling that Modi has added another tool to help him win the 2019 Lok Sabha election: Hindi cinema...
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf applauds The Kapil Sharma Show's reincarnation.
'Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal are the two people who have been marked and punished'
'There was a revolt. They were fighting for their rights.' 'They lost their rights after colonial forest policies came into place.' 'These freedom fighters were trying to reassert those rights.'
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