Himanta 2.0: How Assam’s strongest BJP leader tightened his grip on powerEntering his second term as Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma exemplifies a fusion of regional identity and national aspirations...
Big win empowers BJP to recast Assam politics, delivering welfare pledges key to retaining powerThe BJP’s sweeping Assam victory is being seen as both a consolidation of Hindutva politics and a weakening of traditional Assamese regiona...
Himanta Biswa Sarma brings back BJP for third consecutive term in AssamHimanta Biswa Sarma led the BJP to a historic victory in Assam, winning 82 seats. His aggressive campaign, focusing on welfare schemes like...
Kiwi mate, you butter chicken apologiseShane Jones, New Zealand’s oceans and fisheries minister, has sparked controversy after saying a proposed FTA with India could bring migran...
We are creating a nationalist feeling among immigrant Muslims: Himanta Biswa SarmaThis is probably the first election in the last 30 years where insurgency is not an issue. The Election Commission's decision to have an el...
Assam election: AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal says Miyas will dominate post-election, sparks rowAIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal predicts a post-election "dominance" of "Miyas" in Assam, stating Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's influenc...
'Story of Delhi's Rehman Dakait': Delhi minister Parvesh Sahib targets Arvind Kejriwal over 'sheesh mahal'Parvesh Sahib Singh escalated his attack on Arvind Kejriwal by releasing a video alleging lavish spending on the former CM’s official resid...
'The Acolyte' star Amandla Stenberg alleges ‘intolerable racism’, raps to hit back. Here is what she has saidAmandla Stenberg rapped, and explained how the word 'woke' was used as a call to be aware of racially motivated threats before it was co-op...
Secularism has become pejorative for those now in power: Sonia GandhiThis question is especially grave in diverse countries such as India, where people share so many different identities which are precious to...
Iconic Russian singer asks to be named ''foreign agent''Pugacheva's husband, singer and TV presenter Maxim Galkin, who has criticised Russia's sending troops into Ukraine, was added to the foreig...
A1.8 million-year-old fossil could lead to man’s origin — and the tooth fairyBut the discovered tooth is apparently 1.8 million years old and belongs to early man, or, more specifically, to an early man. And why is t...
Bhaiyya row like black issue, says Congress MP Manish Tewari"De-Horse Politics - The Bhaiya controversy is like the Black issue in the US . It is reflective of an unfortunate systemic and institution...
Let animals off the hook, metaphoricallyAs skunks are not drunk and church mice are not poor, why use inapt similes?
Bihar polls: JD(U) and RJD try to corner PM Narendra Modi over choice of words“He called Lalu ‘shaitan’ (devil) and a virus. He has said Lalu’s sons cannot tell how many zeroes are there in one lakh," RJD spokesperson...
Ending women’s inequality might be a little more complex than word playIn Hollywood's universe, every problem that impacts our planet has to be resolved by Captain America, from alien-loaded death stars to mega...
When “gross” in GNP stands for unseemlyA concerned former surgeon general of Britain has decided to consider the all-important first word of the phrase - gross - as a pejorative ...
- It's asinine to horse about with nature
Worldwide outrage over the presence of horsemeat in processed food should convince horses and mules that a majority of humans do not condon...