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Odisha: Rajya Sabha bypoll to seat vacated by Samantaray to be held on June 18The Election Commission announced a bypoll for a Rajya Sabha seat from Odisha on June 18. Debashish Samantaray resigned from the BJD and th...
The art of consensus: How a divided India came together for GSTThe GST Council is meeting to discuss potential rate changes, including a two-slab structure and a luxury item tax. States are seeking reve...
One Nation, One Election: Why is the bill so dear to BJP and why it is being opposed by othersThe Union Cabinet has approved the 'One Nation, One Election' bill, aiming to hold simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and state assemblie...
In all-party meet ahead of Budget session, Congress seeks LS Dy Speaker's post for opposition, raises NEET issueThe Congress party advocated for the opposition to hold the position of Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker during an all-party meeting convened by th...
One Nation, One Election: Why BJP is pushing for it and why it is opposedThe concept of 'one nation, one election' has been discussed and examined multiple times in the past by different bodies such as the Electi...
Exit Polls: What state elections mean for next year's big Lok Sabha battleQuestions on the connection between state and national votes have begun doing the rounds like they do whenever an assembly poll closely pre...
Voting in bypolls to seven assembly seats on ThursdayWhile in Haryana former chief minister Bhajan Lal's family is trying to hold on to its bastion of five decades, Bihar will see the first el...
Campaigning ends for by-election to seven assembly seats - battle of prestige for partiesIn Andheri (East) of Maharashtra, the BJP has pulled out of the race after the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray fielded the wife o...
Opposition-ruled states set to junk NPR exerciseThe meeting decided to observe January 23, the birth anniversary of Subhash Chandra Bose, Republic Day and January 30, the martyrdom day of...
Patkura bypoll evokes the two decade old Patnaik-Mohapatra rivalryVoting for the Patkura assembly bypoll, where Mohapatra is contesting as BJP’s candidate, will be held on July 20.
How the land of a thousand clashes conjures social stabilityThe Indian state looks weak and helpless, unable to check any vociferous group, and often happy to cave in to woo any and every possible vo...
Presidential poll: Opposition working to remove internal divisionsCongress, NCP, CPM and JDU have made an action plan to deploy most acceptable emissaries to woo parties that may not support a joint candid...
How Modi government managed to solve the GST puzzleA defining example of the Modi govt’s political maturity, the commitment to GST came when the PM reached out to Congress leadership a month...
Former Odisha MP Pyarimohan Mohapatra passes awayKnown as Pyaribabu, the 77 year old former Rajya Sabha member was battling lung cancer in a Mumbai hospital. He is survived by two daughter...
Is Congress' decimation and left's slide towards oblivion last nail in anti-BJP front?Congress’s abject performance and Left’s slide towards oblivion in once-impregnable West Bengal could sound the death knell for dreams of a...
Government, opposition headed for showdown over insurance billHowever, the government is keen to try and secure passage of the bill despite the fact that NDA does not have majority in the upper House.
- Left hopes its fantasy may get real
Notwithstanding the disappointment caused by BSP’s somersault, the idea of a third front, comprising parties outside the UPA and NDA tents,...
- Bajrang Dal planned Orissa violence: CPM
Anti-Christian violence in Orissa & Karnataka echoed in LS.