Politics

News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

Opinions

On this day, in 2013, BJP declared Narendra Modi as PM candidate. I never thought he’d win

Nirwa Mehta - 13 September, 2020

13th September, 2013, just few months ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections, then BJP President Rajnath Singh held a press conference in New Delhi. He was accompanied with the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

News Reports

Nehru got AIIMS made, then why is Sonia Gandhi going abroad for ‘routine medical checkup’, netizens ask Shashi Tharoor

OpIndia Staff - 13 September, 2020

Shashi Tharoor faces criticism after Sonia Gandhi travels abroad for treatment as he had slammed Amit Shah for treatment in pvt hospital

News Reports

Days after resigning from RJD, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passes away, Lalu Yadav tweets condolences from jail

OpIndia Staff - 13 September, 2020

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh had recently resigned from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) while being lodged in AIIMS, Delhi, for COVID treatment.

Media

Narendra Modi is a fascist

Nirwa Mehta - 13 September, 2020

When chief ministers of non-BJP-ruled states clamp down on freedom of press, it clearly means Prime Minister Modi is a fascist.

News Reports

Jyotiraditya Scindia calls former colleagues Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh traitors, accuses former Congress government of leaving a debt of Rs 8000 crore

OpIndia Staff - 12 September, 2020

Scindia accused former Congress government in the state of betraying people by not keeping promise of waiving loans of farmers.

OpIndia Explains

Why Tamil Nadu govt does not want to see the growth of Navodaya Vidyalayas: Some truths about DMK and anti-Hindi agitations

Suren - 12 September, 2020

Elements in Tamil movie industry started a campaign of circulating their pictures on social media with the caption ‘I am a Tamil Speaking Indian’ or ‘Hindi Theiyadhu Poda’ – ‘I don’t know Hindi, man!’.

News Reports

Republic TV approaches NHRC to demand the release of journalists detained by Maharashtra Police

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

Republic TV has also stated that they will approach the Bombay HC, as the Maha Police have been coercing their journalist to reveal his sources.

News Reports

Mumbai police go all the way to Kolkata to arrest an alleged Kangana Ranaut fan for ‘threatening’ Sanjay Raut

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

The man from Tollygunge, Kolkata had allegedly threatened Sanjay Raut of 'dire consequences' for harassing Kangana Ranaut.

News Reports

Congress leader Ajay Maken calls the Supreme Court order directing removal of slums in Delhi as inhuman, files petition

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

Ajay Maken movese Supreme Court challenging the court's order of removing 48,000 slum clusters along railway tracks in Delhi

Opinions

How UPA era environmental laws just cost us 900 km strategic road near China border

Abhishek Banerjee - 11 September, 2020

The Center had requested for a width of at least seven meters so that military vehicles could ply on the road. The request was denied. The planned two-lane highway is now down to a single lane.

1...923924925...1,622 Page 924 of 1,622