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Newsmaker: Nasir Khan Janjua

Pak army's grip on civilian leadership

Aditi Phadnis: Nothing has changed under Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana

The Khattar government has done little to make its one year stand out. The attack on a Dalit family in Faridabad days before the Khattar government's first anniversary suggests that nothing has change

Identity, governance key in Bihar poll

As 30% of the election will be over in two phases by this week, factors such as industrial backwardness, crime, poor infrastructure, erratic power supply and poor educational infrastructure will also

How can US accept any assurances from Pak?: Sheel Kant Sharma

Interview with Principal negotiator for India in the Indo-US civil nuclear deal

Aditi Phadnis: Modi versus Modi

The BJP has not announced a CM candidate for the Bihar Assembly polls. If it gets the numbers to form a government, it is the Modi in Delhi who will decide the fate of the Modi in Patna

Law and order, power top list of challenges for new government

BJP leader Sushil Modi says people fear that the same jungle raj that prevailed when RJD was in power will return if the grand alliance is voted to power

To be a Dalit in Bihar

The legacy of the Nitish Kumar administration

Battle for Bihar: Complicated caste poll primer

In one sense, this election has some striking resemblances to the landmark one of 1977, with sub-caste combinations and antipathies still the bedrock of measures

Of caste, class and war rooms

Earlier, an election used to be a political activity undertaken for its transactional value. Now the digital campaign has spawned heated Facebook debates. The election in Bihar will never be the same

Revisiting reservations?

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark on new thinking on affirmative action has put the fat in the fire

Aditi Phadnis: AAP's existential dilemma

Should the party expand to Punjab, Bihar and other places, or should it consolidate its gains in Delhi? This was one of the questions before the party when it split sometime back. An answer is yet to

High drama in the Himalayan nation

The Madhesi plainsmen of Nepal allege that they have been given a raw deal in the new Constitution. The author traces the genesis of the problem and spells out why India is worried

Aditi Phadnis: A power shift in the Congress?

Rahul Gandhi's elevation may have been deferred. But the old guard can see it is inevitable. And it's got them worrying

Aditi Phadnis: Worrisome signals from Maharashtra

The state is seeing its worst-ever drought; it has a new Commissioner who doesn't seem to be in charge of the most important case the state has seen in recent months

Newsmaker: Rakesh Maria

Laurels and rewards amid controversies

Easy land acquisition becomes USP for competing states

This gives ballast to Modi's call to India's states to draw up their own land acquisition rules in order to become competitive

Aditi Phadnis: The hot seat in Assam

Any guesses on who will be the chief minister of Assam after the Assembly elections in 2016?

Pakistan govt seems inclined to cancel NSA talks

India says Pakistan's insistence on meeting Hurriyat leaders against Ufa agreement

Don't want to get involved in geopolitics: Pacific nations to India