Ansuya Dutt, who never stopped fighting for women's rights, can be an inspiration to us never to lose sight of our basic beliefs, never mind peer pressure.
What is particularly worrying is that the vast majority will not have access to testing or even to proper treatment. These cases could have been avoided if the government had shown the political will to do so, observes Rashme Sehgal.
Senior Congress leaders have realised their work is being monitored by secretary-level functionaries who report to Rahul Gandhi.
'Each of them is a setu (bridge) that links the government with the party, but their territories are different.'
R Rajagopalan predicts that Tamil Nadu won't have single party rule for the first time in its history.
'Modi should have trust in us and the minorities should also have trust in him.'
Days after L K Advani showered praise on Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the latter described Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as his "senior and elder brother" and clarified that he was not a contender for the prime minister's post.
Noting that oil prices had gone down after the BJP-led government came to power in May 2014, before they went up, Prasad said it is a problem whose solution is not in its hands.
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The Modi juggernaut is all set to paint the five south Indian states in saffron colours, writes R Rajagopalan.
The Gujarat chief minister, who held his sway over a gathering in Bangalore, asked the people to give the BJP government in Karnataka another chance. Vicky Nanajappa reports
The cold vibes between Narendra Modi and L K Advani, who has been unhappy over his nomination as the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate, were visible when the two leaders ran into each other at a party to celebrate Ram Jethmalani's 90th birthday in New Delhi on Sunday night.
The campaign's main theme song 'Main hi toh Hindustan hoon' has been penned by Javed Akhtar.
'It disappoints and saddens me no end that Mahua has allowed herself to be carried away by the Goebbelsian onslaught mounted on the BJP and Narendra Modi by certain vested interests which find themselves exposed and thrown out of the gravy train,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
'Change is the rule of politics.'
'But I understand the need for this government move.' 'I completely support Mr Modi.'
The Lieutenant Governor's statement comes days after the Congress MLAs sought Centre's intervention complaining Bedi's style of functioning.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is a dictator, lying is his style and his development propaganda is completely fake. These are some of the claims made by Professor Hemant Shah, head of the department of economics at H K Arts College, Ahmedabad.
'I think he had this in his head to go to different places, get some experience and then become the Congress president.'
On Uddhav's leadership style, Joshi said, "He is always ready to reply to any question. I found he is open-minded."
'What are the circumstances at that time? Had you thought Modi will come after Vajpayee?'
'This coming general election is not going to be about manifestoes.'
As the well-known breakfast snack is trending, we decided to bring you a couple of popular poha recipes from different states across India.
Paswan was a minister under six different prime ministers, hardly out of government since he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977, observes Virendra Kapoor.
By successfully orchestrating the ouster of rival Sanjay Joshi from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has confirmed that the Sangh Parivar has fallen in line with his style of functioning and larger-than-the-organisation persona. Neerja Chowdhury reports
'Shaheen Bagh is no longer a mere ghetto of lower middle class Muslims.' 'Now, it is a metaphor for resistance, secularism and struggle,' notes Md. Zeeshan Ahmad.
A section within the RSS feels Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani should be projected as the BJP's CM candidate in UP, says Rajeev Sharma.
'Unless he engages with the darkness within, unless there is remorse for what happened within his rule, I don't think he is going to be my leader,' says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt in his forthright style.
The Tamil Nadu voter may not be in the mood to test new talent, not when the state and the people are going through unprecedented and unanticipated crises, of which coronavirus is only the first. All of it boils down to an election between the ruling AIADMK and the Opposition DMK next year, with small-timers, had-been parties and promised parties left on the sidelines, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Of all the election skirmishes, it is the one between Mamata and Modi that has hit the nadir.' 'Obviously, the prize catch is Bengal where the BJP is determined to make inroads while Mamata is equally determined to keep them out,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
An interview with BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu
Fandom of Kejriwal, who led the AAP to a scintillating win in the February 8 polls bagging 62 of the 70 seats, was visible as people chose innovative ways to express their sentiments at the venue that was transformed into a sea of colours as the crowd waved party flags and the tricolours.
Former Chief Minister of Gujarat Keshubhai Patel flew into New Delhi from Ahmedabad on Tuesday and had meetings with senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Dr Murali Manohar Joshi.
Arvind Kejriwal said that 20-25% of AAP's votes transferred to SAD-BJP.
BJP member Ananth Kumar was debating Mamata Banerjee's promise to upgrade 309 stations as 'model' ones, of which 137 were in West Bengal. Intervening, Lalu Prasad Yadav said, "World-class station banana to ek soch hai. Yeh banna to hai nahi. Aap pareshan kyon ho rahe hain? In this connection, he said during his tenure also he had proposed to upgrade Patna station which never happened.
The interesting bit about the Azamgarh poll finding on India TV was the whopping percentage of Muslims backing the SP-BSP alliance, which sort of negates Mayawati's appeal to the community to not split their vote with the Congress, says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Celebs pay tribute to Girish Karnad.
He claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party people were alerted beforehand about the demonetisation. "How can one explain the BJP people in West Bengal depositing crores in high-denomination notes just before PM's announcement on November 8?" Rahul asked. "BJP workers were seen holding up bundles of the new Rs 2000 notes, as seen from images on the Internet, before Modi announced this decision," he told reporters in suburban Bandra.
Deve Gowda indicated on Sunday that they were ready to compromise.
'China was a relationship from which Mr Modi had expected the most it seems.' 'It showed in a string of summits, and somewhat breathless celebration of Xi Jinping.' 'It was hasty and simplistic,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
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