'This kind of poisonous and anti-national activities happening in the country and the economic failure of the Modi government may boomerang in the form of a Congress revival.'
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
Akshay Kumar's success rate continues.
About 80 per cent of the companies that are registered are essentially non-IT.
The hits and misses of the week.
If the bribe-for-PPE-supply controversy in Himachal escalates, the BJP could have a lot to lose.
How Modi retrieves the situation and how he enlists new allies in the next two years will show if the BJP is fighting fit, report Sunil Gatade and Venkatesh Kesari.
'We have taken technology to the mandal and booth level.'
Yogi Adityanath's aura is no longer limited to Uttar Pradesh. At the age of 49, his journey to the higher echelons in the BJP has well and truly begun, predicts Sudhir Bisht.
'Bommai was a minister in my cabinet. It is not ethically correct.'
'Behind the BJP's anti-Congress crusade is an attempt to divert attention from the Ladakh standoff,' explains Amulya Ganguli.
Winning an election may be a breeze for the BJP but the aftermath of victory isn't always painless.
150 BJP elected local representatives in Beed resign in protest against Pritam Munde's exclusion from the Union ministry.
'The politics of Goa is moving around a sole entity, which is land.'
The hits and misses of the week.
'If the Singh government was characterised by policy paralysis, this one is afflicted by hyperactivism, sans a roadmap,' says Yogendra Yadav.
Is anyone in the BJP listening -- to what Nitin Gadkari had to say, but possibly left unsaid? asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Hema Malini and Shaina NC have also been omitted from the group.
'...It won't help the party run a peaceful and equitable India,' warns Vir Sanghvi.
'In Kejriwal's re-election, we are finally seeing someone who has successfully bridged his Hindu identity with ground-level development triumphing over the BJP,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
How much do you know about Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal and the Taj Mahal?
'He was always opposed to a form of nationalism that was narrow, selfish and arrogant.' 'He will always remain a beacon of inspiration for freedom-loving people across the world and for movements of resistance against oppressive State power.'
'Should the Congress take Jyotiraditya's departure as good riddance?', asks Mohammad Sajjad.
'It's a natural alliance and this alliance has been has been formed without compromising the core ideology of the AIADMK.'
'They take each and every election with seriousness.' 'No other political party has that kind of cadre who is strongly aligned with the reason, motto and ideology of their party.'
'We are not a dictatorship. If the people do not desire some law, it is impossible for any government to implement it,' says BJP leader Chandra Kumar Bose.
Around 30,000 personnel have been deputed for poll duty as the state decides its fate today.
We present our alphabet of 2020, pulling in everything you'll remember about this year we'd rather forget.
Two technocrats, two hard-boiled politicians are India's new Cabinet ministers...
In the third reshuffle since coming to power, Prime Minister Modi raised the strength of his Council of Ministers from 73 to 76.
'2016 was the age of convenience for Hindi movies; of down pat effrontery and planned feeling triumphing over attempts to discern something complexly beautiful,' says Sreehari Nair.
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