With Nitin Nabin taking charge as the BJP’s national president on Tuesday, the ruling party has formally closed the chapter on J P Nadda’s extended tenure and brought itself back in line with its long-standing “one person, one post” principle. Nadda’s induction into the Narendra Modi Cabinet after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections had already…
The fraught relations between politicians and bureaucrats in Himachal Pradesh seem to have become more tense in the wake of Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Vikramaditya Singh’s recent remarks against a section of the IAS and IPS officers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, whom he accused of disregarding “Himachaliyat” – the ethos and interests of…
3 min readChennai, New DelhiFeb 17, 2026 06:44 AM IST First published on: Feb 17, 2026 at 06:44 AM IST For nearly seven years, the alliance between the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Congress has functioned as one of the most stable arrangements in Indian politics. Now, it is being tested – not by…
3 min readJan 20, 2026 12:33 PM IST First published on: Jan 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM IST New BJP national president Nitin Nabin could be one of the party’s new faces in the Rajya Sabha, where several vacancies will crop up through this year, party insiders have said. While sources indicated that the 45-year-old…
Who will control India’s richest civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which has an annual budget of over Rs 70,000 crore? The Urdu dailies have kept their focus on this question, even as they covered the Maharashtra civic body polls with a focus and sweep reserved usually for the coverage of a big state…
Holding his enumeration form, Dilim Toto sits on the floor with four others in the kitchen-turned-office of Booth-Level Officer (BLO) Prakash Pradhan’s house in Totopara village. The 25-year-old has been called for a hearing, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, for a “logical discrepancy” since he is one…
While Nitin Nabin, 45, has taken over as the BJP’s youngest-ever national president, marking a generational shift in the leadership of the ruling party, the principal Opposition Congress continues to struggle over the issue of promoting its young faces more than three years after it resolved to ensure 50% representation for youths across all levels…
Hours after taking charge as the new BJP national president on Tuesday, Nitin Nabin began to form his team as he appointed the party’s election in-charges for the upcoming Kerala Assembly election and the civic body polls in Bengaluru and Telangana. These appointments, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on the BJP being…
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to address a major election rally in Maduranthagam near Chennai on Friday, the NDA in Tamil Nadu is engaged in an intense round of negotiations that underline both the ambition and fragility of its plans for the upcoming state Assembly elections. Since Tuesday night senior BJP leaders led by…
3 min readMumbaiJan 23, 2026 10:59 PM IST First published on: Jan 22, 2026 at 08:30 AM IST The poor performance of the two NCP factions in the recent municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra has fuelled speculations about the merger of the two parties – the Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the Sharad…