Politics

NCP rebel Ajit Pawar visits Amit Shah for Diwali after visiting Sharad’s residence

NEW DELHI: Amid the power struggle between the Nationalist Congress Party uncle-nephew duo of Sharad and Ajit Pawar, the latter found his way to Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence in Delhi on Diwali, alongside other NCP MPs Sunil Tatkare and Prafful Patel.  Ajit was earlier seen at Senior Pawar’s residence in Mumbai for a family […]

BSF soldier’s death marks third Jammu ceasefire violation by Pakistan since Oct 17

JAMMU: In a tragic incident, a BSF jawan succumbed to injuries sustained during an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistani Rangers along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir. The incident took place in the Ramgarh sector of Samba district, marking the third ceasefire violation in the Jammu border in the past 24 days and the […]

Shivraj Chauhan’s son’s recipe for long poll campaign: Cold coffee & peanut butter

BHOPAL: As the countdown trickles down to a few days in the run up to  the Madhya Pradesh elections, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua engaged in a conversation about the state’s progress with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s son, Kartikey Singh Chauhan, in Bhopal on Thursday. During the discussion, the 28-year-old recluse son […]

Mahua can handle herself on her own: TMC finally breaks its silence

KOLKATA: Following claims of Lokpal directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct inquiry into the cash for query scandal, Trinamool Congress finally breaks their silence on Mahua Moitra’s future. Upon leaving the CGO complex after submitting 6,000 pages of documents in relation with an Enforcement Directorate registered cash-for-jobs scam, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee […]

Moving beyond caste reservation: A path towards equality

Caste reservation, which was meant to be a temporary measure to uplift the marginalized communities, has become a permanent and problematic feature of Indian society.