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Himachal assembly speaker expels 15 BJP MLAs amid crisis

Himachal Pradesh assembly speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania on Wednesday suspended 15 Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs, including Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur, and adjourned the House. IMAGE:......

Political Actors Use Religion To Align Their Politics

The rulers of the day need to be sensitive and involved in managing the identities of sacred spaces and the ongoing dialogues about the past in diverse societies, suggests Colonel Nikhil Apte......

BJP 'harmed Bharat Mata' in Manipur: Rahul in Lok Sabha

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday tore into the Narendra Modi government over its handling of the violence in Manipur, alleging the politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party has 'harmed Bharat......

Modi inaugurates new Parliament, installs sacred Sengol in Lok Sabha

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building in New Delhi on Sunday morning and expressed hope that it will become a cradle of empowerment, igniting dreams and nurturing......

Amid reports of discontent among Goa MLAs, BJP says...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa on Tuesday rubbished reports that eight MLAs from the Congress who had joined the party were unhappy about not being accommodated in the state cabinet and on......

Adani's Dharavi dream: Producing millionaires minus slumdog prefix

Billionaire Gautam Adani on Wednesday shared a personal note on the development of Dharavi in Mumbai, days after the Maharashtra government issued a resolution to award the Dharavi redevelopment......

IOC Should Not DIE!

If IOC is not allowed to run its own affairs, then we can see it close down in the next 10 to 15 years, warns Sudhir Bisht. IMAGE: An Indian Oil fuel station in New Delhi. Photograph: Adnan......

Can Shaktikanta Das be a peacemaker between RBI, govt?

If the new governor can think out of the box even as he signals that he can bat for the RBI cadre and respect its institutional memory, that will go a long way in getting out of the current......

How Robert Vadra's firm reaped a fortune with DLF deal

While giving approval to commercially develop land in Gurgaon, the Haryana government considered Robert Vadra's name and status as proof of his company's financial capacity. Image: Robert......

Rate cut hope, global cues buoy markets; Sensex closes up 265 points

Benchmark indices opened the session on a firm note following the positive cues from the global peers. The markets ended at the day's highs, with the Sensex climbing back above the psychologically......

Review: Department is another failed RGV experiment

Ram Gopal Varma's Department takes his increasingly schizoid cinematographic tendencies into a whole other league, and gives us, besides watery eyes and potential nausea, the filmmaker at his most......

Top official leaves FIFA; EU urges Blatter to go NOW!

FIFA Director of Communications Walter de Gregorio reacts during a press conference. Photograph: Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images FIFA's director of communications Walter de Gregorio is to resign......

BCCI battle: The how and why

The election to the Board of Control for Cricket in India is up against more legal hurdles.On Monday, the Rajasthan Cricket Association, the Bihar Cricket Association and Tamil Nadu's Netaji......

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