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AAP should understand the politics of leadership and power

If the BJP or the Congress suggest something sensible in the Lok Sabha, it remains to be seen if AAP will suppport it or oppose it

What AAP should learn from the failure of Tamil Manila Congress

It is worth studying the Tamil Maanila Congress to understand what not to do when launching a new party.

BJP decimates Congress in Rajasthan

In its worst performance ever in the desert state, Congress could manage just 20 seats out of the 192

Congress sinks without a trace thanks to BJP, AAP

Sonia and Rahul Gandhi attribute their drubbing to price rise among other reasons

Article 370 and the politics of it

The special status to Jammu and Kashmir is once again a topic of heated debate with Narendra Modi against and Omar Abdullah for it

Aditi Phadnis: Tamil Nadu means business

Despite small hiccups, it is a state with an urban outlook on life and where laws still work

EVM complaint suggests Congress graph down in MP

Counting is due on December 8

Assembly elections: Which way will the tide turn?

Notwithstanding opinion polls that give BJP the edge, current assembly elections are the hardest to predict

Aditi Phadnis The Karnataka conundrum

Things are not bad for Siddaramaiah but the Congress is yet to make its presence felt in the state

Friends cutting across party lines

At the annaprashan ceremony of his grandchild earlier this year, there was absolutely no evidence Sahara group chief Subrata Roy was under any pressure

Shinde ignores Rahul Gandhi's charge on Muzaffarnagar riots

Gandhi claimed based on supposed testimony of an IB official that Pakistan intelligence had approached young Muslim boys in the area after recent riots to turn them into Pakistani intelligence assets

Money makes Hazare Kejriwal spar

Hazare appeared in a video criticising Kejriwal for misusing funds collected using Hazare's name during the Ramlila Maidan agitatio

Controversy over Bharat Ratna awards refuses to die down

Political parties question arbitrary selection procedure, allege discrimination against candidates with non-Congress ideology

Tea with BS: Kapil Sibal

'We're not trying to create a perfect world...'

Confidence undermined by AAP, BJP assesses victory chances but is found wanting

Morale in the BJP is low, especially because the party is baffled by the guerilla tactics of the Aam Aadmi Party

Will help expedite infra projects in Maharashtra: PM

CM Prithviraj Chavan had led high-level delegation to meet PM seeking a review of infrastructure projects in state

Lunch with BS: Prithviraj Chavan

Defending the faith

Aditi Phadnis: Kumar's loss may be Modi's gain

Governance was Nitish Kumar's USP among voters in Bihar - it is now being appropriated by the Gujarat chief minister

The ruling disconnect

Why do political parties forget what they did and said when they were in power?

Congress may snatch defeat from jaws of victory in Rajasthan

Party fails to act decisively to counter anti-incumbency factor, rival BJP courts religious sect Dera Sacha Sauda to consilidate in Bikaner