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Newly-elected Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma after BJP Legislature Party meeting, in Jaipur, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (PTI Photo)

DC Edit | BJP picks Next Gen to helm three state govts

Only the Bharatiya Janata Party can operate like a disruptive, innovative technology start-up turned super-unicorn. In...

12 Dec 2023 11:45 PM IST

Inside the mind-boggling operation to count Rs 351 crores seized in eastern India, exposing a deep-rooted political and distillery nexus in the largest income tax raid in history. (PTI File Image)

DC Edit | Explain staggering cash stash

A mind-boggling operation to count the Rs 351 crores in cash seized in raids in eastern India was an explosive event...

12 Dec 2023 11:41 PM IST

Sheikh Hasina. (AA File Image)

Monideepa Banerjie | Dummies' to help Hasina in BNP-mukt Jan. 7 polls?

In the 2014 Assembly elections, the Mahasamund constituency in Chhattisgarh had grabbed headlines because the BJP...

12 Dec 2023 11:36 PM IST

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. (Image: S. Surender Reddy)

Sriram Karri | Revanth era in Telangana: Hope reigns amid caution

A few months ago, at an averagely attended training programme of key state and district-level Congress leaders,...

12 Dec 2023 12:41 AM IST

BSP president Mayawati. (Photo: PTI)

DC Edit | Dalit assertion: Maya's legacy

The announcement by the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati of her decision to hand over the reins of her party to her...

12 Dec 2023 12:37 AM IST

The economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 on account of impact of COVID pandemic. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Has South Asia hobbled itself? Can we turn into Korea,...

Last week, I wrote about South Asia remaining poor compared to many nations in Asia, which have done something different...

12 Dec 2023 12:11 AM IST

Three BJP candidates were elected to the Nizamabad urban, Kamareddy, and Armoor constituencies for the first time. Dhanpal Suryanarayana Gupta was elected as the BJPs MLA from urban after defeating Congress nominee Mohammad Ali Shabbir and knocking off BRS sitting MLA Bigala Ganesh Gupta. (Image By Arrangement)

Sanjaya Baru | The geography of power, in North, South & West India

Many political leaders from southern states have been articulating their concern about the impact of a new delimitation...

11 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron (Photo: AP)

Kishwar Desai | Will Cameron rush to Tories' rescue? Blyton's Famous 5...

It may be the jolly time of Christmas but we have freezing temperatures all across England. At the same time...

11 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

TMC leader Mahua Moitra with other opposition leaders after being expelled by the Lok Sabha during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. The Lok Sabha on Friday expelled Moitra after holding her guilty of sharing her credentials with others and accepting gifts from a businessman to extend favours. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

DC Edit | Mahua Moitra's expulsion from LS is hard to justify

The Lok Sabha’s decision to expel Mahua Moitra, Trinamul Congress member from Krishnanagar in West Bengal from the...

11 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (PTI)

DC Edit | SC tells HCs: Don't sermonise

An order of the Calcutta high court dealing with the sexual attitude of adolescent girls and boys while dealing with a...

11 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were not pleased with Chouhans efforts to promote his sons. (PTI File Image)

Anita Katyal | No son-rise' in MP, Chhattisgarh, Raj; knives are out...

As the Bharatiya Janata Party top brass mulled the choice of chief ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and...

10 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST

I am a believer not just in their kindness, but the purity, clarity and genuine intimacy of strangers: Krishna Shastri Devulapalli. (Image by Arrangement)

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli | Stranger Encounters of the Intimate Kind

On my morning walk, I sometimes see this young woman, a focused, majestic jogger. There is something pure, even...

10 Dec 2023 12:05 AM IST