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As an eight-time MP and the former Lok Sabha speaker, Sumitra Mahajan is seen as one of the tallest leaders in Madhya Pradesh’s politics and part of the BJP’s old guard. We met her at her home in Indore to discuss her party’s poll prospects, the probable chief ministerial candidate…

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s description of coitus interruptus in the assembly – to stress the link between education and reproductive autonomy – has triggered a political controversy and discomfort within some sections. 

Days after TMC leader Mahua Moitra and opposition MPs stormed out of the meeting of the Parliamentary ethics committee, the panel is said to have recommended her expulsion from the Lok Sabha. The panel is probing the cash-for-query allegations against her, and Mahua had slammed the panel chairperson’s line of…

The ongoing campaign and the nature of contests in the assembly polls in five states – Mizoram, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh – were seen by many as an early test for the cohesiveness of the 28-parties national opposition alliance INDIA. Almost four months after it was formed in…

NewsClick has told the Delhi High Court that the foreign funding violation charge was a bid to “target” the outfit and create a “chilling effect”, PTI reported.

मध्य प्रदेश में प्रत्येक युवा को मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान या तो भांजी या भांजा के रूप में संबोधित करते हैं, वे उनके ‘मामा’ के रूप में अक्सर उन्हें नौकरी देने के बारे में बड़े दावे करते नजर आते हैं.

Each youngster in Madhya Pradesh is addressed as either bhanji (niece) or bhanja (nephew) by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who, as their maama (uncle), often makes tall claims about giving them jobs. 

Be it the searches at NewsClick, BBC, the Wire, or at the homes of journalists in several states over the last few years, the seizures of journalist’s digital devices have often underlined two issues – pertaining to journalistic privilege and the fundamental right to privacy.

Amid the elections in Telangana, the buzzword is Karnataka. Over the last few weeks, Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao and others in the Bharat Rashtra Samithi have been pointing to the Congress rule in Karnataka and cautioning the Telangana voters. 

In poll-bound Chhattisgarh, the BJP’s campaign strategy doesn’t revolve around just unemployment, corruption and women’s safety but Hindutva poll planks too. 

छत्तीसगढ़ विधानसभा चुनाव में भारतीय जनता पार्टी बेरोजगारी, भ्रष्टाचार, महिला सुरक्षा और आदिवासी हितों से इतर हिंदुत्व, धर्मांतरण, कश्मीर और राष्ट्रवाद जैसे मुद्दों को भी प्रचार का जरिया बनाए हुए है. इसी कड़ी में असम के मुख्यमंत्री हिमन्ता बिस्व सरमा भी छत्तीसगढ़ में चुनाव प्रचार के लिए पहुंचे.