By KN Web Desk on 31/05/2018 @ 8:58 PM
BJP, bypolls, Congress, elections, India
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Opposition parties on Thursday appeared to be winning 11 bypolls, limiting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies to just three out of four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats across 11 states. With prestige at stake in every bypoll, the BJP lost the high-profile Kairana Lok Sabha seat in politically important Uttar Pradesh […]
By KN Web Desk on 19/05/2018 @ 6:36 PM
BJP, Congress, jds, karnataka
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The three-day-old B.S. Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka collapsed on Saturday, with the chief minister announcing his decision to resign without facing a trust vote, reports said. The Supreme Court had on Friday ordered a floor test in the Karnataka Assembly at 4pm Saturday, drastically reducing the 15-day window given by Governor Vajubhai Vala to Bharatiya […]
By KN Web Desk on 18/05/2018 @ 10:30 AM
BJP, Congress, elections, India, karnataka
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To prove their majority in the Supreme Court on Friday, 18 May, the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) combine is likely to produce affidavits of its 116 MLAs, The Quint reported Friday. During a late-night hearing on 16-17 May, the apex court had refused to stay BS Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, after the Congress-JD(S) […]
By KN Web Desk on 23/04/2018 @ 10:42 PM
AS Dulat, Azadi, Congress, India, Kashmir, National Conference
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Next coalition in Kashmir will be what it was in 1986-‘87, a Congress-National Congress coalition. That is the way I look at it Narrator Desk Srinagar: Amarjit Singh Dulat, former chief of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has said that he believes Omar Abdullah will return as chief minister of Jammu Kashmir in a […]
By Narrator on 20/02/2016 @ 3:08 PM
BJP, Cashmere, Congress, democracy, Hindutva, Kashmir, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, PDP, Srinagar
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I see Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as a very mature and seasoned politician. He conducted politics with ethics and on his own terms. He belonged to that class of politicians for whom politics was a passion rather than a profession. In his individual life as well as political life, honesty was the buzzword. Even after being […]
By Seema Kazi on 20/02/2016 @ 10:09 AM
BJP, Cashmere, Congress, democracy, Hindutva, Kashmir, Parliament, Srinagar
Commentaries

It’s just the chicken coming home to roost India’s writers, artists, scientists, historians, film-makers, academics and members of civil society have rightfully condemned the creeping climate of violence, prejudice and intolerance sweeping across the country. Such protests are a moral and ethical force amidst a deepening darkness. Extraordinary as the protests are, their focus is […]