The long Nitish-BJP relation has had its ups and downs, especially vis-à-vis Modi, but this may turn out to be the trickiest phase ever. A pyrrhic victory for the seven-time CM.
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The Congress takes refuge behind facile arguments: ‘tough seats’, ‘vote-cutting’. But its poor run in Bihar...
Bihar is closed out. The BJP turns its undivided attention to Bengal and other states.
The Bihar polls were devoid of real choices, disconnected with real issues. The results fly in the face...
How did ‘Jai Shri Ram’ win? By managing media and by deploying LJP, MIM et al. That helped thwart...
As new trials show repurposed drugs are useless for Covid, should India rethink its treatment protocols?
Stubble-burning might be a big contributor to air pollution but coal-fired power plants are causing the biggest damage.
Some children are so tired of the coronavirus lockdown they are yearning to return to school
The Congress staked much on the bypolls in Madhya Pradesh, but ended a poor second...
The BJP owes its 6-1 scorecard in UP bypolls to a compliant BSP and a tepid Congress
The Biden-Harris win sends waves of joy through the US and the world. In a divided country, their immediate job is to repair, rejevunate and redirect.
Biden will tread lightly on the rights issue in Kashmir, but that might be a blemish on his foreign policy agenda
Yes, decency and idealism won this round. Yet, the toxicity in White America that Trump tapped is....
Headlines from around the world last week
What does a legendary bookshop on the Left Bank in Paris do when pestilence strikes? Everyone goes ‘Nous sommes tous Shakespeare...
Covid-hit India driving more pre-owned cars to avoid public transport, shared cabs.
New Delhi tosses a googly to Kashmir: district polls. The pro-370 Gupkar alliance...
A country that fumes when Donald Trump calls it filthy (he meant the air), but where most people feel...
Not talk about Arnab Goswami? That was not an option, says Seema Mustafa, president, Editor’s Guild...
In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week
Faith or health? States everywhere have been chary of reopening temples. But priests in Odisha start a unique protest...
Actor Rajkummar Rao speaks to Giridhar Jha about his success in this time of content-rich Hindi cinema.
Verses with razor-sharp words and thoughts are cutting through the post-370 winter in the Valley
A deeply-researched, semi-fictionalised account of William Sleeman’s hunt of the thugs breathes the air of pre...
Fresh from his superhit Bhojpuri hip-hop video Bambai Mein Ka Ba, which became a “national anthem of sorts” by talking of...