In the aggressively fought by-election to J Jayalalithaa’s RK Nagar constituency in Tamil Nadu, in which every day has been dramatic and action-packed, taxmen arrived at the homes of minister C Vijayabaskar and popular actor Sarath Kumar in Chennai early this morning. They both are accused of handing out cash for votes, tax officials say. They claim documents seized during the raids reveal 80 crores have been paid to RK […]

The spiritual head of Ajmeer dargah, who had supported a ban on the sale of beef, was on Wednesday “sacked” by his brother. On Monday, Syed zainul Abedin had also urged the government to ban the slaughter of all bovine animals to promote communal harmony in the country. However, his support has not gone down well with his brother who on Wednesday “sacked” him for the “blasphemous” support and declared […]

A controversial demonstration of the Electronic Voting Machine last week in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district last week seemed to lend credence to the opposition’s accusation that voting machines could be tampered with. It is a charge that the Election Commission has strongly rejected more than once this week. And now, a top poll panel official flown into the state to oversee by-polls to two assembly seats over the weekend has […]

Slamming the Uttar Pradesh government’s crackdown against slaughterhouses in the state, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Assaduddin Owaisi highlighted BJP’s hypocrisy on Saturday saying in Uttar Pradesh cow is mummy but in the Northeast it’s yummy, as quoted by news agency ANI. His remarks come in the backdrop of the UP government’s decision to shut down illegal slaughter houses in the state, although critics point out that the move is […]

If you follow the news in the past few days, you will observe a lot of column space has been devoted to Fali Nariman’s questions about the appointment of Yogi Aditya Nath as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. He even went at length saying, “The prime minister may deny it but that is my assumption that appointing a particular person…as the chief minister is in itself an indication that he wishes to […]

A Shiv Sena MP repeatedly hit an elderly Air India officer with sandal in a brazen burst of fury over being unable to travel business class despite having insisted on boarding an all-economy flight. Ravindra Gaikwad, the Lok Sabha MP from Maharashtra’s Osmanabad, slapped and, by his own claim, hit 60-year-old duty manager Sukumar 25 times with his sandal when the official went to persuade him to disembark after he […]

The choice of Yogi Adityanath as UP Chief Minister has stunned many. The question that a lot are asking now is whether it is the biggest gamble that the Bharatiya Janta Party played thus far or whether this is that ultimate move that seals the BJP’s position in 2019 Lok Sabha Polls? The most corollary that is being used in this context is no doubt Narendra Modi. The experts feel […]

Riding on the huge success in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now gearing up for one of its most prestigious electoral battle — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat — due at the end of this year. The BJP has ruled the state since 1998, a feat that has helped Modi’s rise to power as the Prime Minister of India. The duo of […]

The last-minute choice of Yogi Adityanath, after hectic parleys for a week in Delhi and Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, where the RSS national conclave is set to begin on Sunday, is seen in UP political circles as the resurfacing of differences between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). Frustration and dissatisfaction loomed large on the faces of party MLAs when they came out of Lok Bhawan, the […]

Ever since the pro-jallikattu protests broke out in Tamil Nadu, actor Kamal Haasan has been actively, frankly and openly expressing his political views on on social media. Speaking to Karthigaichelvan of Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, Kamal said that his political expressions were not new, and that he’d always been interested in politics and found in Twitter a conducive medium. “I was vocal about my views even as a 21-year-old boy. I […]