Assam’s youngest candidate Kunki Chowdhury loses to BJP veteran Vijay Kumar Gupta in the newly carved urban seat
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Veteran leader Kipgen is the Deputy Chief Minister of Manipur
In Kairana, Iqra Choudhary is crafting a low-key but deliberate politics, focused on grievance redressal, local infrastructure, and intersectional representation rather than headline-grabbing schemes.
Activists allege illegal detentions and legal violations in aftermath of Noida workers’ protests
Nearly three years since ethnic violence first tore through Manipur, the casualties and the cumulative toll of conflict keep accumulating. Even as the current political climate in India continues to be defined by the reverberations in mainstream poll-bound states, in Manipur, peace appears to have adopted the form of a managed illusion: one that is brittle, fragile and heavily policed
The move, framed by Chadha as a “constitutional merger” backed by two-thirds of AAP’s Upper House members, marks one of the most significant defections the party has faced since its inception, and raises sharp questions about ideological consistency, political ambition, and shifting loyalties in India’s opposition landscape.
The contractual labourers in Noida are navigating a tricky situation—while they are still angry about low wages, they also fear that raising the issue would mean losing little that they earn
As the US-Israel war on Iran deepens and tensions continue to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy and fertiliser shipping routes, anxiety and fear is quietly spreading across India’s farm belt.
According to local authorities and humanitarian agencies, nearly 71,000 people remain in Tyre and nearby towns, many now at risk of being cut off from essential supplies as the Qasmiyeh crossing and other routes come under repeated attack.
At a time when militarisation is intensifying, public discourse is increasingly soaked in nationalism, and the spectre of conflict looms from West Asia to South Asia, the Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) convened a cross-border webinar titled “Counting the Costs of Conflicts — Why Peace Matters”.
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