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The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi on Easter day was notable, as it was his first visit to a church since becoming prime minister over nine years ago. On the same day, Easter Sunday, BJP leaders conducted an outreach in different places by visiting church leaders and houses of Christians to greet them on Easter.

For naysayers it was a the doomsday as the “historic meet” between Nitish Kumar and Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday in presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge not only sent a vibrant message that opposition unity was no more an illusion but would strengthen the ideological narrative of the opposition fight against the RSS and BJP politics of hatred and divisiveness . Further, it will also provide a new vision to the parliamentary politics.

Chandigarh: American Varun Chopra, Gurugram-based Tapy Ghai, Mysuru’s Yashas Chandra and Mohammad Sanju of Kolkata shot identical four-under 68 to make up the leading quartet on day one of the Rs. 1 crore TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship at Chandigarh Golf Club on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Rattled by four successive defeats, the top heavy think tank of the Delhi Capitals feels that batters will have to perform much better if team has to stay in contention for the play offs.

Indian economy, politics, and media was in transition when I joined India Press Agency in March 1993 led by O P Sabherwal as its Chief Editor. I had been sent there by Sumit Chakravartty, Editor of the weekly Mainstream. The transition of the 1990s had then just begun, and as the editor of the largest non-wire agency of the county focusing on analytical journalism, OP had a greater role to play.

Wearing a spotless white safari suit and a dot of vermillion on his forehead, B S Yediyurappa walked out of the puja room through the corridor of his Bengaluru home. He glanced at the verandah and meeting rooms full of people, but headed straight to the cowshed in the backyard to pet the new calf before heading back in.

Fractional ownership of real estate is catching up fast in India, particularly among the tech-savvy investors. As a concept, fractional ownership has democratized real estate investment in that it has given small investors access to commercial properties which otherwise remained the exclusive domain of high and ultra highnetworth individuals and institutions.

No constitutional democracy can sustain without a constitutional dialogue between the non-judicial forces.

Renewed controversy over Saudi ownership of English Premier League club Newcastle United suggests the kind of opposition the kingdom may encounter as it bids for hosting rights to multiple global and regional sporting mega events.

Less than a month ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka scheduled on May 10, the state unit of the BJP is vertically split between the loyalists and turncoats and between believers and nonbelievers of Hindutva. While the turncoats through their patrons at Delhi have been striving hard to side-line the loyalists, the nonbelievers in the RSS political line of Hindutva are raising their accusing fingers at the hardliners for deepening the communal schism just ahead of the polls. They even argue that some of the possible contestants enjoying the patronage of the believers were simply alienating the common people away from the BJP.