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From Congress to Assam chief minister, the rise of Himanta Biswa Sarma | 5 facts

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has contested from Jalukbari and results are due May 4.
india news
Published on Apr 16, 2026 05:59 pm IST

Vivek Ramaswamy shares two key lessons for Republicans after Mamdani's victory

Vivek Ramaswamy reacted after Democrats swept NYC, New Jersey, and Virginia elections.
us
Published on Nov 05, 2025 03:01 pm IST

Kamala's ‘too risky’ gay V-P remark sparks row; Trump aide says she's a failure

Kamala Harris, right, next to ex-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
world news
Published on Sept 25, 2025 08:00 am IST

Borderlands 4: Release date, time, where to play, editions and more

Borderlands 4 release date, time and more
us
Published on Sept 08, 2025 09:20 pm IST

Identity politics, divisive ideologies eroding national unity’: SC judge Mishra

Supreme Court judge justice Prashant Kumar Mishra at a national council meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad (@AdhivaktaP/X)
india news
Published on Dec 29, 2024 01:12 pm IST

Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge

Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge
india news
Published on Dec 28, 2024 08:16 pm IST

Maharashtra, Jharkhand Assembly elections: People’s issues missing yet again

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde being garlanded during a public meeting for the state Assembly election in Nandurbar on Sunday. (ANI Photo)
india news
Updated on Nov 18, 2024 02:01 pm IST

In West Bengal, caste links with Hindutva

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**EDS: HANDOUT IMAGE** Krishnanagar: BJP supporters during a public meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Lok Sabha elections, in Krishnanagar, West Bengal, Friday, May 3, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI05_03_2024_000113B)
opinion
Published on May 07, 2024 10:10 pm IST

Sibling rivalry erupts in Kerala, this time it’s a battle for legacy

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Former Congress leader from Kerala Padmaja Venugopal addresses media after joining Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of party leader Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi on March 7.
analysis
Updated on Mar 10, 2024 11:09 pm IST

What’s the truth of Vivek Ramaswamy?

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FILE PHOTO: Former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the first Republican candidates' debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 23, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
opinion
Updated on Sept 11, 2023 07:59 am IST

‘Politics in slums highly active and competitive’

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Auerbach and Thachil spoke about their findings on last week’s “Grand Tamasha” podcast, a co-production of HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (HT)
india news
Updated on Jun 05, 2023 03:42 pm IST

Ron DeSantis launches Presidential bid with Elon Musk : 5 key takeaways

A screen grab shows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis participating in a Twitter Space event with Elon Musk and others as he announces he is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, May 24, 2023. Elon Musk via Twitter/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES MANDATORY CREDIT
world news
Updated on May 25, 2023 07:14 am IST

Bihar symbolises a larger shift in politics | Opinion

The electoral strategy of stitching together a plurality of minority and some caste groups has maxed out. PM Modi recognised the change
columns
Updated on Oct 27, 2020 08:25 pm IST

What Bihar will tell us about national politics

The BJP’s national leadership is clear that it will stick to Nitish Kumar for some more time — not because it trusts him but because it doesn’t want to take the risk of a repeat of the defeat of 2015
columns
Updated on Sept 20, 2020 05:43 am IST

BJP’s new Mumbai chief wants BJP-Sena to win all 36 Assembly seats in city

Newly appointed Mumbai BJP president Mangal Prabhat Lodha at the BJP office in Dadar, Mumbai, on Friday.
mumbai news
Updated on Jul 20, 2019 01:21 am IST

Modi won because he delivered on his promises

Narendra Modi managed to create history by becoming India’s first reformist prime minister to be voted back to power, and that too, with a bigger mandate
analysis
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 06:52 pm IST

Elections 2019: Why the first phase is critical

Election officials arrive with poll-related material on a ferry through the river Brahmaputra ahead of first phase of elections in Nimati Ghat in Jorhat, Assam, April 9, 2019
editorials
Updated on Apr 11, 2019 11:41 am IST

Identity politics shouldn’t overshadow real issues

What was as striking was Ms Mayawati’s sharp attack against the Congress — she is understood to have been the most resistant to a wider alliance with the Congress.
editorials
Updated on Apr 09, 2019 07:03 pm IST

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Mumbai set to vote on April 29

Mumbai has traditionally swept completely saffron or the other way around, with all six seats showing a similar voting preference.
elections
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 02:13 pm IST

EWS quota: Narendra Modi’s move to curb the ills of identity politics

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers carry flags past a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an event to celebrate the reservation bill passed in the Parliament, Mumbai, January 10.
analysis
Published on Feb 11, 2019 07:31 am IST

BJP to hold executive meet today, strategy for poll-bound states top agenda

The upcoming Assembly elections in four states that will set the trend for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls are likely to figure prominently in the two-day BJP National Executive meet beginning in Delhi on Saturday.
india news
Updated on Sept 08, 2018 07:24 am IST

The NRC exercise will lead to an upsurge in identity politics in the Northeast

Villagers arrive by boat to check their names in the final draft of the National Register of Citizens at a centre at Goroimari after its release, in Kamrup district of Assam on Monday, July 30
analysis
Updated on Aug 01, 2018 06:35 pm IST

Two Iftars, two approaches towards minorities

New Delhi: Former president Pranab Mukherjee during the Iftar party hosted by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in New Delhi on Wednesday, June 13, 2018
editorials
Updated on Jun 15, 2018 09:58 am IST

Dalit movements across India will be a front against hegemonic nationalism

Dalit mobilisation is at an all-time spontaneous high, and this is the time to foster lateral pan-Indian networks of Dalit resistance (Representative Photo)
opinion
Published on Apr 18, 2018 12:02 pm IST

Americans didn’t choose Trump because of economic concerns

Since Donald Trump’s shock victory last month, the Democratic Party and its supporters have plunged into a cantankerous inquest
columns
Updated on Sept 17, 2018 10:49 am IST
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