In 2014, Modi wave did an unthinkable for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh by winning 73 of 80 Lok Sabha seats for the alliance. Less than three years later, it was a repeat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. But, this time apart from PM Modi, there is another ‘chai-wallah’ who shares the credit for stupendous victory for the BJP. Keshav Prasad Maurya, the UP BJP president, is said to […]

The ‘project’ which was started by LK Advani and Kalyan Singh over two-and-half decades back has finally come a full circle. The state of Uttar Pradesh, a veritable cauldron of humanity, has turned saffron and how! It has defied expectations of pundits, casual observers and many politicians who were busy getting an alternative plan in place bracing for a hung mandate. BJP has won a thumping majority currently leading in […]

The Modi government is expected to accelerate economic reforms as the BJP looks set to score a huge win in Uttar Pradesh assembly election, which was billed as a referendum on demonetisation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP was headed for a two-thirds majority to make a comeback in the country’s largest state, counting trends indicated. The outcome belies apprehensions in the Sangh Parivar and a section of the BJP about […]

After over a month of voting, counting of votes in Assembly polls in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur – will begin at 8 am today and early trends are expected to start coming in at 10 am. Congress is claiming it will wrest power in Punjab and retain its hold in Uttarakhand and Manipur. The election is also important for the nascent Aam Aadmi Party, […]

The much awaited results of 2017 is due in less than twenty four hours. As Uttar Pradesh braces up for counting day, most exit pools are indicating a clear landslide victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state. Most election experts anticipate the return of Modi wave catching momentum on the national arena. No doubt a 250-270 seats victory is likely to not only reinstate BJP’s position strongly in […]

At a time when the Indian-American community in the US is seeking answers over the sudden spike in attacks on its members, Hindu Americans were left shocked by the extremely stereotypical portrayal of them in a latest CNN television series titled “Believer”. The influential community has alleged that Reza Aslan’s six-episode Spiritual adventures series portray Hinduism in a negative light. The first episode of the series featured the mystical sect […]

The Trump administration is expected to drop Iraq from the list of Muslim-majority nations to be impacted by a travel ban that the president was to sign into effect on Wednesday, but didn’t, along with several other substantive changes from the previous executive order that had been put on hold by a federal court. The new order is likely to exempt existing visa holders from the listed countries — the […]

Mocking economists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “hard work is more powerful than Harvard” as the latest GDP data shows demonetization did not affect growth rate, rather the figures improved. “On the one hand are those (critics of note ban) who talk of what people at Harvard say and on the other hand is a poor man’s son who through his hard work is trying to improve the economy,” he […]

She spoke her mind on the attacks on Delhi University students in a 140-word Facebook post and a picture put out hours after the ABVP activists clashed with Ramjas College students this week. Three days later, the Kargil martyr daughter’s social media campaign to protest the “tyranny of fear” unleashed at Delhi University has gone viral. Over 20 students were injured on Wednesday when ABVP activists clashed with students protesting […]

Amnesty International said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s “poisonous” rhetoric on his way to winning the White House led a global trend towards increasingly divisive politics in 2016 that had made the world a “darker” place. In its annual report covering 159 countries, the human rights group said principles of human dignity and equality had come under assault from politicians seeking election and it zeroed in on Trump, who […]