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ED summon to AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it on November 2 signals his possible arrest. It has triggered a serious political concern, since ED’s actions in the recent times have been by and large targeted against leaders of opposition political parties who happen to dare politically oppose PM Narendra Modi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not derive much comfort from the fact that Indian Railways, the government’s single biggest public connect, is in bad shape. India’s railway network, recognised as one of the world's largest railway systems under single management, carries some 24 million passengers daily. Politically, that is like addressing 240 mega public meetings daily with an average audience count of one lakh persons each. The Railways represents the face of the national government. The Indian Railways owns approximately 4.77 lakh hectare of land which is bigger than the size of some of the states. In the past, some of the country’s most illustrious political personalities had headed the railway ministry. They included Lal Bahadur Shastri, Babu Jagjivan Ram, Gulzarilal Nanda, Kamalapati Tripathi, S.K. Patil, Madhu Dandavate, A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, Lalu Prasad Yadav, George Fernandes, Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee.

The bomb blasts in Kerala are a reminder that war – anywhere in the world – is never far from politics. The Kerala blasts along with the conflagration it triggered has had a serious impact on politics in India. There is now a Centre-State battle on the cards with the LDF government accusing a central minister of taking advantage of the blasts to malign Kerala’s peace-loving people living in perpetual harmony.

New Delhi: Anish Bhanwala claimed a bronze in 25m rapid fire pistol event and secured India’s 12th Paris Olympic quota in shooting at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Monday. This was country's first quota in the men’s 25m pistol event.

New Delhi: India's suffered their second successive defeat as they lost to Vietnam 1-3 in their Group C match of the AFC Women's Olympic Qualifiers second round at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Tashkent.

Kerala has said an emphatic “No” to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)’s attempt to replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in the social sciences textbooks for schools.

Opposition parties in Assam, showing a greater commitment to achieve an anti-BJP consolidation than the Congress, ignored the latter’s gamesmanship to begin their long-awaited seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls in 2024.

Tipra Motha (TM), the powerful tribal party of Tripura has approached the BJP for an alliance to share the seats in the Lok Sabha election in 2024. Tripura has two seats in Lok Sabha including one as reserved. TM wants to contest the reserved seat and leave the general seat to the BJP.

Union Minister of Home Affairs and the second most influential leader in the BJP, Amit Shah, only next to PM Narendra Modi, has perhaps rightly perceived the general voters’ annoyance in Madhya Pradesh against the ruling double engine government, both in the state and the Centre. The issue of their misgovernance has become the food for thought in the general public, and hence Shah has tried to shift the blame on Congress for making Madhya Pradesh a ‘BIMARU’ state.

Some political commentators hold the view that Palestinians should have followed the Gandhian path and also implicitly accuse them that they never followed the Gandhian path. However, their suggestion also applies to the Israel. The Israeli rulers should have followed the Gandhian path, and boy how they haven’t. This is most pertinent in the case of Israel, as its political and cultural ethos has several similarities with the current Hindu-nationalist Indian tenet and the RSS, the ardent admirer of Israel, almost wholesale.