Aug 19, 2021 Breakfast, dinner, virtual meeting, stalling Parliament…Opposition fixes up a unity show, but will it stick?
Aug 19, 2021 Interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi will hold a virtual meeting with senior leaders to firm up a united fight against the ruling BJP. NCP chief Sharad Pawar, chief ministers Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), MK Stalin (DMK), Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena) and Hemant Soren (JMM) will be attending the virtual meet, as will RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.
Aug 19, 2021 The Collegium has recommended elevation of three women judges to the apex judiciary, including that of Justice B.V. Nagarathna, who could, even if just for a month, become the country’s first woman CJI in 2027 if the Centre clears her appointment.
Jul 28, 2021 The Captain and Sidhu have made a tentative rapprochement, but plenty signs of rancour linger in the air within the Punjab Congress.
Aug 05, 2021 Originating from colonial era carve-ups or post-independence redrawing of boundaries, territorial disputes between states fester on in low simmer or indifference, before they flare up in violence.
Aug 04, 2021 “To a man living around these forests, 34 million carats of diamonds have no meaning, all he’ll understand are the many zeroes…that is what his bank balance is most of the time.”
Jul 21, 2021 “We wanted a resolution but are moving towards an explosion.” That’s a party MP from Punjab on the situation in the local Congress after New Delhi snubbed Amarinder for Sidhu.
Jul 29, 2021 Riding high on her election victory in West Bengal, TMC's Mamata Banerjee wants to position herself as the fulcrum of Opposition unity. Can she succeed?
Jul 23, 2021 CM Amarinder Singh accepts Navjot Singh Sidhu’s invite to attend the installation ceremony of top PCC office bearers triggering speculations of a truce but can the bitter rivals work together in poll-bound Punjab
Jul 23, 2021 With his task in Punjab over, Harish Rawat can now get back to his home state where he has the difficult task of making his party battle-ready before the assembly polls due in February-March 2021.
Jul 18, 2021 Prof. Manoj Kumar Jha, Rajya Sabha MP from Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), speaks on the follies of disrupting Parliamentary proceedings and why trust deficit among Opposition parties remains the biggest challenge to their coming together against the BJP.
Jul 07, 2021 The Uttarakhand ferris-wheel spins yet again, with the 10th CM in 21 years. But the BJP is staring at both regional disaffection and internal dissension, months before polls.
Jul 14, 2021 Despite the BJP heading for a near-rout in one of the three states governed by the Congress, retaining power won’t be easy for Amarinder Singh
Jul 14, 2021 Sources say interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi also joined the interaction with Prashant Kishore through video conference.
Jul 13, 2021 The buzz over Chowdhury’s imminent departure as leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha does trigger questions on whether the staunch Nehru-Gandhi loyalist has lost the confidence of his high command.
Jul 12, 2021 The prolonged farmers’ agitation, ongoing since November last, may turn into yet another headache for Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
Jun 30, 2021 Sources in the state’s Congress and BJP units tell Outlook that both parties are a divided house in the hill state
Jun 17, 2021 Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Ashwani Kumar explains the need for his party to effect a much-delayed course correction and why he thinks the Congress must take the lead in forging a broad federal front to take on Modi in 2024.
Jun 17, 2021 Organisational flux continues to mar the Congress’s self-image as the national pole of anti-BJP politics
Jun 17, 2021 Crisis resolution plan for Punjab Congress will hinge on the high command’s adroitness in appeasing Navjot Singh Sidhu without undermining Amarinder Singh and upsetting the state’s caste arithmetic
Jun 16, 2021 It’s vital for courts to proactively uphold individual freedoms when probe agencies seek to curb them
Jun 10, 2021 Pious official rhetoric burns incandescently. World Environment Days come and go. Meanwhile, our hillside verdure routinely turns to cinder. Why?
Jun 09, 2021 Jitin Prasada had been sulking in the Congress for well over two years and his impatience over being sidelined was common knowledge.
Jun 08, 2021 Several Congress legislators in Punjab have informed the party’s central leadership that they ‘do not trust’ Navjot Singh Sidhu and would prefer to continue working under Amarinder Singh
Jun 04, 2021 At 84 years of age, Stan Swamy is the oldest among the 16 accused in the Bhima Koregaon case and, arguably, the oldest prison inmate across the country facing non-bailable charges under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.