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Farmers look for cover after police fired tear gas at them during their Delhi Chalo march, near the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border, in Patiala district, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Farmers protesting at the Punjab-Haryana border resumed their march on Wednesday, days after the fourth round of talks with the government over their demands. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Punjab's farmers the real Opposition to...

Farmers' demands put Modi government in tight spot

22 Feb 2024 12:12 AM IST

In this May 19, 2017 file photo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that Swaminathan would be posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Limits to BJP's domination? Bharat Ratna...

BJP's strategic Bharat Ratna awards raise questions about electoral motives, regional impact, and the party's pursuit of...

14 Feb 2024 9:00 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Weak-kneed Nitish Kumar shifts in a...

Nitish Kumar's return to BJP exposes his reluctance on secularism and socialism, signaling challenges for smaller...

31 Jan 2024 12:54 AM IST

His Majestys Headhunters: The Siege of Kohima that Shaped World History. (Image: DC)

Book Review | Untold tales of Naga valour in our Stalingrad of the...

The narrative explores the treacherous terrain, power struggles, and the strategic contributions of the Nagas

28 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

There is a reason that Prime Minister Modi has been emphasising the tourism sector centred around the pilgrimage centres of Ujjain, Varanasi and Ayodhya, because all the efforts to make India the pharmaceutical hub, or the manufacturing hub, of the world had just fizzled out in the past 10 years. (File Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Is economy in a feel-good psychedelic...

The Indian economy is turning out to be like the American one in many ways

25 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

Saffron flags bearing images of Lord Ram, Lord Hanuman and the upcoming grand temple on display in front of shops along Ram Path, in Ayodhya. Ahead of the Ram temple consecration ceremony in the holy city, demand for such flags has risen manifold. (PTI Photo/Kunal_Dutt)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi's Ayodhya overdrive: Will dreams...

It is now a recognisable signature of Prime Minister Modi that he does not believe in anything low key.

15 Jan 2024 12:05 AM IST

Construction work in progress at Ayodhya Railway Station, on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The lesson from Ayodhya: How power...

The Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Majid case had decided the issue in terms of a property dispute.

26 Dec 2023 11:47 PM IST

BJP working president JP Nadda delivers a speech on Article 370 in J&K in Thane on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | SC's Art. 370 ruling has left key...

Even Hindu-majority Jammu is not happy with the new UT status

14 Dec 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Narendra Modi with BJP National President J.P. Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during celebrations after partys victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Local factors led to BJP's Hindi belt poll...

The hard reality is that the Modi factor was absent in all the four states.

4 Dec 2023 12:01 AM IST

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (PTI File Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | The politics of governors: How Centre...

Kerala Guv Arif Khan should have known better than to use the office of governor as an obstacle in functioning of the...

27 Nov 2023 11:38 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Nari Shakti Vandan-Abhinandan Karyakram, a day after Parliament passed the womens reservation bill, at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, on Friday. (Image: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi foreign policy fumble amid...

India's position on the Hamas-Israel confrontation is quite different from that of its stance on the Russia-Ukraine war

16 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

The capital city of Delhi enveloped in smog in New Delhi, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Air pollution level is Delhi-NCR has started rising owing much to stubble (parali) burning in adjoining states. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Delhi's nightmare: Leaders bicker while...

The Centre wants commercial vehicles which do not cater to essential services to be stopped, & 50 percent of employees...

8 Nov 2023 12:05 AM IST