The list carries names of Sigbatullah Ansari, who is the brother of jailed gangster Mukhtar Ansari, and Atiq Ahmed who faces over 40 criminal cases including of murder and attempt to murder.
Anurag Kashyap continues his rant against the government: We are damned if we do, damned if we don't!
'Rahul is misguided by a handful of family retainers who don't want him to show unrestrained initiative in forming allies.' says Sudhir Bisht.
'Arshi never crossed her boundary.' 'Initially, Akash was entertaining but slowly, he's become irritating because he changes groups without being loyal to anyone.' Hiten Tejwani discusses the contestants on Bigg Boss 11, and reserves the worst for Hina Khan.
'He keeps reminding me he is senior. There is no debate in this. I have never shown any disrespect to you since you are a senior,' the PM said.
The great Indian election is over and now the wait for the results is shrinking with every passing moment. Though exit polls hint at a cakewalk for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his National Democratic Alliance, there are some battles which will be keenly observed on the result day.
The Congress in Maharashtra is in disarray. Prithviraj Chavan tried to clean up the party and its image, but there is a lack of faith in him within the party and outside, says N Suresh.
'As the Aisi Taisi Democracy folk so aptly put it, time to choose who will s**** us most', says Geetanjali Krishna.
You can make these comforting recipes for your New Year party.
India must be aware that there is no question of the US fighting the Chinese on land. We have to fight our own battles, points out Virendra Kapoor.
An Insignificant Man gets full marks for its originality, says Utkarsh Mishra.
In a multi-pronged attack on the government, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Surjewala alleged that it was managing headlines to deflect attention from issues such as the death of 39 Indians in captivity in Iraq.
We should understand people's problems. You should do politics by going to the people and not by sitting in air-conditioned rooms, he said.
Akhilesh said that the defeat of the Dalit candidate would cement his party's relations with Mayawati-led BSP.
'Phone charger, pillow and rug, Kindle, small cocktail in a carafe, a rolled up paratha...' Find out what Kishore Singh takes along for a Delhi-Gurgaon car ride, a journey that often takes three hours!
Modi polled 5,16,593 votes -- about half of the total votes -- while the Congress's Ajay Rai, and candidates of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party now run the risk of forfeiting their deposits.
Pulling out all stops on the last day of campaigning, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reached out to the electorate holding a roadshow in Sultanpur Majra.
Sunita Roy Chowdhury lets you know how you can stay healthy this festive season.
'These are people who are anxious to die.' 'We have not seen such type of committed people anywhere.'
'The sooner Pakistan and India face these geopolitical realities, the better it will be for their own security and prosperity,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
This refreshingly hilarious film should not be missed, says S Saraswathi.
Samajwadi Party government exempts Dedh Ishqiya from tax ; Mulayam and Akhilesh camp in Saifai to welcome Madhuri-Salman
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
'The idea that the J&K issue gets internationalised by allowing foreign delegations to visit it appears bizarre to me because the issue is not about Article 370 or the decisions relating to the abrogation, but more to do with the post decision handling,' notes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
What Saisuresh Sivaswamy learnt about the election from television and the newspapers. A must read column, folks!
A day after the Tamil Nadu assembly speaker disqualified 18 MLAs from the AIADMK's V K Sasikala-T T V Dinakaran faction, Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar spoke to a couple of MLAs.
There is no let up in the unseemly sparring between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid being now called a "cockroach" by a BJP spokesperson after he described Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a "frog just out of the well".
'In both places the minority was disproportionately powerful.' 'Few people acknowledge it but at its core the Tamil Nadu problem between the Brahmins and the rest was one of power.' 'In Kashmir the Hindus held most of the land and the accompanying political power, while the Muslims were the peasants and powerless,' notes T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Pervez Musharraf is contemplating a political front with jihadi groups to contest Pakistan's next election. Should the jihadi groups win a few seats, terrorist outfits will gain legitimacy in Pakistan, warns Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Holidays, slurping on ice golas, fights in the school bus for the window seat and visiting grandparents are some of the things Rediff.com's Anita Aikara misses dearly.
Leading Pakistani newspapers on Monday ran front-page stories on Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP's rout in the key Bihar polls, in which Pakistan figured as a major issue during campaigning that saw party president making the controversial "firecrackers would go off" remark.
'Modi, with his sharply honed political savvy and undoubted grasp of international affairs, is a past master at taking the measure of world leaders.' 'He would be the last person to think of the unpredictable and not too well-regarded Trump as the mediator,' says B S Raghavan.
Wearing a dhoti isn't something you can learn with some sleight of hand, says Kishore Singh.
The BJP scripted history by opening its account in the state assembly.
"The situation has already improved in Gorakhpur and it would soon improve in the state as well," he said.
'You'll find more wisdom on such matters in a Sara Ali Khan interview,' says Sukanya Verma.
In Gujarat, Amit Shah's tactic of spiriting away Congress leaders and MLAs is jocularly called 'shop-and-buy votes'. Although haemorrhaging the Congress is a vital aspect of his election blueprint, an aide said, "Amitbhai wants to win on our strengths and not by weakening the Congress."
'Faith, and the notion that it has been 'outraged', is used to justify the most outrageous, illiberal and regressive acts,' notes Shuma Raha.
In two and a half years, first PM-like action by Modi: Rahul Gandhi on India's surgical strikes
