Though Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi addressed a MGNREGA Bachao rally in Barnala on Saturday, his message to Punjab Congress leaders to operate as “team players” did not go unnoticed and continues to create ripples in the state’s political landscape. Warning his partymen, including senior leaders who were seated alongside him on the…
As a new war launched by the United States and Israel on Iran rages, it has pushed the Middle East to the edge, which may have wide-ranging ramifications for the region and the world. It also has grim implications for India, given the massive presence of the Indian diaspora in the Gulf countries. The killing…
4 min readThiruvananthapuramMar 3, 2026 01:59 PM IST First published on: Mar 3, 2026 at 01:59 PM IST Senior Congress leader, socialist and seven-term parliamentarian K P Unnikrishnan died in Kozhikode on Tuesday. He was 89. The former Union minister had been indisposed for the past few years. A native of Kozhikode, Unnikrishnan represented Kerala’s…
(As West Bengal gears up for the Assembly polls, every Tuesday, The Indian Express’s Kolkata bureau chief Ravik Bhattacharya decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) Five years after failing to deal a body blow to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) despite registering its best Assembly election result, the BJP is…
The Rajya Sabha election race in Bihar has the NDA in knots. While the alliance is aiming to win all the five seats being vacated in April, there are multiple claimants to the seats, including Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant Kumar. The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), which has no presence in the…
February 27 was a big day for ex-Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and their Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). In some ways, it may turn out to be even bigger than December 8, 2013, when the Delhi Assembly poll outcome saw the then debutant AAP putting up a stunning performance just 13…
As news of Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei’s killing emerged on Sunday, protests broke out in cities and towns across the country with a Shia Muslim presence — from Kashmir Valley and Ladakh to Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. For Shias, including those in India, Khamenei was not just a political leader who was the “Supreme Leader”…
Economics professors, an archaeologist-turned-academic, a Navy veteran, and a law-trained think-tank co-founder are among the contributors to the now-withdrawn Class 8 social science textbook brought out by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The controversial book has come under scrutiny after the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant,…
3 min readLucknowMar 2, 2026 03:51 PM IST First published on: Mar 2, 2026 at 03:51 PM IST The BJP in Uttarakhand has tasked its leaders with inducting 3,000 leaders from rival parties in each of the 70 Assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand, where 23 seats were decided by less than 5,000 votes in the 2022…
(Each week, Deputy Editor Liz Mathew maps the changing political landscape from New Delhi, focusing on power equations, policy moves, and shifts in alliances.) With traditional caste equations in Uttar Pradesh in flux ahead of the Assembly elections early next year, the BJP is navigating a complex crisis as it faces multiple challenges: intensifying discontent…