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The BJP this time is giving more attention and importance to the north-eastern States because it fears it may lose heavily in the Hindi heartland and the loss has to be made up by gains in West Bengal, Odisha and the north-east. But ironically in the north-east it is now battling against a problem which it has created for itself. This is the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which intends to give Indian citizenship to non-Muslims coming from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

United States of America’s third largest city will elect a new mayor April 2 when voters go to the polls to settle a runoff between Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle. History will be made regardless of who wins. Voters will elect the city’s first African American woman mayor and if Lightfoot wins, its first LGBTQ mayor.

Pakistan has found nothing to indict Jaish-e-Muhammad in the Pulwama attack. The Pakistan foreign Office dismissed the 91-page dossier submitted by India as not conclusive enough to indict Masood Azhar, labelling it a collection of “generalized allegations.” Should Pakistan’s summation surprise India or the world community? A useless question to ask. Pakistan chooses to live in blissful unawareness of the Jaish.

Two, or is it three fronts? Actually, not less than four. Maybe, even five. Each trying, working to precipitate events to change perception. That’s the word ‘precipitate’. Political parties and media believe precipitating events – real or unreal – is the key to fashioning and changing perception. It’s daily grind for both politicians and media to keep precipitating. Media call it ‘breaking news’, at least 10 breaking news an hour, which is what it takes to keep precipitating.

It is a perplexing contradiction. Anil Agarwal, the owner of Vedanta Group, symbolises the quintessential rags-to-riches story: starting as a petty scrap dealer with an investment of Rs.50,000 borrowed from Syndicate Bank in 1976, his Vedanta company has now emerged in four decades as the fifth largest mineral and metal empire in the world, valued at $10 billion. Even as he was riding the crest of a wave of success, the year 2018 turned out to be an annushorriblis for Anil Agarwal. Right when he was patting himself on the back for his Vedanta being the first ever Indian business group to get listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the company was forced to delist after Vedanta came under a cloud for gross environmental and human rights violations, leading to the police firing in Tuticorin that killed 13 people.

As the campaigns for the European Parliament get underway, some of the traditional lines that formerly divided left, right, and center are shifting, making it harder to easily categorize political parties.

BHOPAL: Though the Congress chose to sponsor Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal describing the seat as tough but now it appears that it is the BJP which is finding Bhopal tough. The fact that the BJP has yet to decide its candidate indicates that it regards Bhopal as a difficult constituency. BJP leaders are suggesting several names for Bhopal, for example, senior leader Raghunandan Sharma said that Sadhvi Pragya Thakur should be fielded. Arguing that if the party can give a ticket to actress Jaya Prada five hours after she joined BJP “what’s wrong in fielding Sadhvi Pragya who is a die-hard nationalist.

A-Sat is strategic weapon. Missile to blast to smithereens enemy satellites. Spies in outer-space. Sending inputs, pics and what not, to enemy planning God knows what. A-Sat is election weapon. The day after, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept hammering ‘Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai’ at a Modi rally. Space is Modi's last frontier. Modi himself spoke of opposition angry with ‘Antriksh Ke Chowkidar.’

China has hardened its policy on dealing with the status of the spiritual head of the Tibetans Dalai Lama who is in exile in India since 1959. In a document released on Wednesday ahead of the 60th anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama’s exit from Tibet after the failed uprising against the Beijing regime, the state council information office of the Chinese government circulated a white paper on Tibet ruling out any engagement with the present Dalai Lama who is 83 years old and is having serious ailment.

On 18th March, 2019, the High Court at Delhi gave a path-breaking judgment on the arbitrary eviction of slum dwellers, and upheld their right to housing. In this case, the division bench of Delhi High Court, i.e., Justice S. Murlidhar and Justice Vibhu Bhakru, was hearing a petition filed by Ajay Maken, Congress leader, who had challenged the forced eviction of around 5000 dwellers of a jhuggi jhopri basti at Shakurbasti on 12th December, 2015. Around 1200 jhuggis were demolished on the orders of the Indian Railways by Delhi Police, leaving thousands of person homeless in severe winter, and also resulted in the death of a six month child.