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Meghalaya Police goes after Northeast Now to remove a news report and divulge sources

The Meghalaya Police has been caught on the wrong foot for trying to train its guns on the media. On August 13, it launched an attack on the media by serving a notice to Northeast Now, a Guwahati-based news portal, to remove a news report related to former state chief…

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#Phase3: Voting begins in 117 seats across 13 states and 2 UTs

One hundred and seventeen Lok Sabha seats across 13 states and two Union Territories are going to polls in the third phase of the 2019 General Elections. In the first two phases, polling was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18.

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Why Facebook’s recent purge is problematic to the core

Facebook just did a Thanos-esque move on April 1st, snapped its fingers, and deleted a bunch of pages and accounts that were either engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ or ‘civic spam’. These removals were specifically targeted to India and Pakistan.

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A review of NL Hafta by Arvind and Rahul

Here’s a quick feedback on Hafta 188: Hartosh Singh Bal comes across as rude and nasty

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Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan wants to take the fight to Delhi

The celebration in Saharanpur’s Chhutmalpur has just begun. The man of the moment is Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, who is out on bail.

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Why must the BJP government repeat the worst behaviour of previous governments?

Read Part 1 on how the Modi government systematically made Parliament irrelevant. And then Part 2 on how the Modi government has started an era of Ordinance Raj and avoided proving its legitimacy in Parliament.

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Does the Modi government have the legitimacy to run the government anymore?

Read the first part of how the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant here.

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How the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant

It was May 20, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party having won 282 seats in Lok Sabha, Narendra Damodardas Modi was unequivocally elected as the Prime Minister of India. He got out of a vehicle at the main entrance of Parliament and got down on his knees to touch his head…

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How the AAP-LG tussle is uniting the Opposition against the BJP

The tremors of a political earthquake in the national capital are spreading fast across the country. The support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna at the Lieutenant Governor’s house from the Opposition parties or the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party front is swelling with every passing day.

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Why BJP’s ‘Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas’ is an example of bad branding

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Why granting statehood to Delhi is the right thing to do

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Bharatiya Janata Party’s GDP Jumla

The latest set of gross domestic product (GDP) numbers were released yesterday.

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Chandrababu Naidu’s saga of political flip-flops

Nara Chandrababu Naidu, supremo of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has done it again. His political heel is flexible enough that it can rotate 360 degrees. His political ideology is malleable and ductile. It takes the shape of the container, at his will.

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#Cobrapost sting and Hindutva in the newsroom

The lines between editorial and marketing departments are more blurred than media organisations would like to acknowledge. This has been well established by documentation of paid news cases. The Cobrapost sting reinforces the fact that media’s business model is advertisement-centric.

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Voters in Kairana don’t care about Jinnah’s portrait: RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) is fighting a battle of survival in Uttar Pradesh, and Monday’s Kairana bypoll seems its best shot to stay on the political scene ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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Kumaraswamy swearing-in and battle of the Telugu biddas

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leadership has reason to be chuffed after making its presence felt at HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

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Pollution versus politics in the uneasy town of #Thoothukudi

Even as governments, courts, lawyers, political parties and residents’ associations are grappling over the levels of pollution caused by Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi (Tuticorin), a coastal town of southern Tamil Nadu, 13 lives have been lost in police firings in the last two days here in a bid…

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Lesson from #KarnatakaVerdict: Congress should shake hands with BSP

Exactly 15 years ago, in the summer of 2003, LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee tried to persuade Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to join a national pre-poll alliance with the BJP in return for support to her in a hung UP Assembly.

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Court’s latest blow to Goa ore mining reflects failures of state

Goa’s iron ore mining scam may seem like an old story. It is.

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Social media wars: Will resurgent Congress trump complacent BJP in 2019?

A lot has changed between 2014 and 2018 in how India’s two major parties—the Congress and the BJP—work their social media ‘capabilities and handling’.

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: DK Shivkumar, the man behind the manoeuvres

Within hours after BS Yeddyurappa resigned, a beaming Rahul Gandhi emerged in what was his first press conference since the party’s embarrassing performance in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The optics of the press conference is not lost on anyone — the Congress president had practically gone underground since the day…

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: What led to Yeddyurappa’s knockout

Two hours before the floor test was to happen, the narrative on TV stations started changing. That was the first indication that the BJP had thrown in the towel. Anchors started pushing the line that the BJP high command was not too pleased with BS Yeddyurappa’s efforts to get a…

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This is Bhatkal, where commerce & religion play chicken

Out here, it is illegal for anyone on a bike to wear a helmet. That doesn’t seem right and it isn’t. “Not illegal, but can you see even one person wearing a helmet?”

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Irani, Queen of Controversy and Quarrel

So, what can Irani do to stay relevant and on top of the political sweepstakes with just the low-profile Textile Ministry in her charge? Remember the last time when she was sacked as HRD minister? Irani grabbed eyeballs, that too in the midst of an all-important BJP party leadership meeting…

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#KarnatakaCMRace: The season of ‘destination politics’ begins

The destination is now clear. Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) Members of Legislative Assembly will be stationed in Hyderabad to protect themselves from the onslaught of Operation Lotus 2.0.

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