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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Enforcement Directorate, flush from what it perceives to be a ‘successful’ campaign against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has set its sights now on Kerala.

The INDI-Alliance has to win 2024 general elections, especially Uttar Pradesh. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's “mitti mein mila doonga” mission is death-dealing. The BJP is going after the gangster-culture holding up the Samajwadi Party superstructure with vengeance with damaging results for the entire opposition ecosystem.

On the day Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered the tribal district of Nandurbar on March 12, it was greeted with much fanfare. The mood of Congress leaders was upbeat, as Rahul Gandhi addressed huge rallies in Nandurbar and Dondaichain Maharastra. The jolt, however, came the next day—former minister Padmakar Valvi quit the party and joined the BJP.

New Delhi: On a day when most of the participanting Indians failed to cross the first round hurdle, two- time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu chalked out an easy win over Wen Yu Zhang of Canada to storm into the pre-quarterfinals of the Madrid Spain Masters badminton tournament at the Centro Deportivo Municipal Gallur.

New Delhi: National hockey team goalkeeper PR Sreejesh has been appointed co-chair of the FIH Athletes Committee along with Chile’s Camila Caram, the International Hockey Federation has announced.

Gurugram: Aman Raj, veteran O P Chouhan and Karandeep Kochar saved the hosts blushes by finishing the open round at tied 14 as Joost Luiten of Netherlands, shot 7-under 67 to share the lead with Japan's Nakajima in the Hero Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country Club here today.

Whatever you have thought about Nirmala Sitharaman and the budget she presented earlier this year, one point you have to concede. She is an honest person. After presiding over the government of India’s expenses, running over into lakhs of crores, the finance minister admitted she did not have enough money to fight a parliamentary election.

India’s youth have lost a decade. They trusted Narendra Modi’s promise made during election campaign in 2014 to provide “work with dignity for every hand”, but now after a decade on the eve of Lok Sabha General Election 2024, they find themselves simply misled by a decade of PM Narendra Modi’s bluff, which has just been exposed by the India Employment Report 2024 jointly published by International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Institute for Human Development (IHD). Youth now constitute 83 per cent of the jobless in India, and growth is not employment-intensive.

The arrest and detention of Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, by the Enforcement Directorate is a turning point in the steady erosion of democracy in India. This brazen assault on the democratic system is a first in many respects. It is the first time a sitting chief minister whose party commands more than four-fifth majority in the assembly has been arrested, for the first time the head of a national political party has been put behind bars. And this is the very first time that such an arrest has been affected after the announcement of the Lok Sabha election and the model code of conduct has come into force.

Waking up to news that "the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance is on the verge of collapse" over seat distribution for the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra and it is a familiar dirge heard ever since Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray's path-breaking son Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray cut loose from his father's legacy to cut a pact with the Hindutva-hating secular parties, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.