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Pune's DJ row gets noisy and political

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Vidyanand Bapat was giving an interview to TV9 Marathi news channel on Tilak Road in Pune when a youth attacked him. Few cameramen of news channels were present at the time of th... Read More


Who is Tukaram Mundhe and why is he trending?

New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Tukaram Mundhe could possibly be the only IAS officer from India to get international publicity. Taipei Times, a national daily from Taiwan, printed a long profile on Mundhe in i... Read More


Who wants Third Mumbai?

New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March inspired millions of Indians to defy British rule through civil disobedience. Chirner, a village in Uran Tehsil of the then Colaba district,... Read More


Goa's opposition is squandering its best shot at unseating the BJP

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- "I am only asking the opposition: hold your egos and leave them outside the door. Unite, or else the BJP will finish the Goans and the culture of Goa." Walter Lobo's words echo t... Read More


Not in our backyard

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- When Dayanand Nene, a well-known BJP and RSS activist from Thane, Maharashtra, led a protest on July 18 against the proposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre in his city, it ... Read More


The other ethanol crisis

New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- As protesters left Jantar Mantar Road in New Delhi after weeks of demonstrations, many among the Gen Z crowd taunted the on-duty police, promising to return soon-this time to dema... Read More


Sharad Pawar plays the 'mixed signals' game again

New Delhi, July 20 -- In the 2009 general election, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was part of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA). The Left Front, which had with... Read More


The tiger mauled

New Delhi, July 11 -- There was a time in Uddhav Thackeray's political life when he was known to be an indefatigable fighter. If he indeed lost a political battle, one could always bet on him taking i... Read More


Maharashtra's opposition disoriented as BJP tightens grip on the State

New Delhi, June 27 -- Uddhav Thackeray has lost six of his nine MPs from the Lok Sabha to Eknath Shinde's faction of Shiv Sena. This was the second major blow for Uddhav after losing both the governme... Read More


Two decades of conditional rights and broken promises

New Delhi, June 19 -- On the morning of June 4, hundreds of tribal people in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district travelled in trucks, tractors, autorickshaws, and motorcycles from their hamlets to the D... Read More