Politics has always been described as the art of the possible. There is an old saying that there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics. Perhaps today’s India demands an update to that maxim. The finest political strategy is often to defeat one opponent with the help of another. Indian politics has repeatedly demonstrated […]
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The Congress leadership is expected to hold key discussions on Tuesday over the future of its Punjab unit, amid growing speculation about a possible change in state leadership. However, there is no certainty that any decision will be taken or announced immediately. Sources say senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge are […]
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It was 2004 when I first travelled across Haryana to cover the Lok Sabha elections in Sonepat and Panipat districts. Journalism then belonged to a slower, rougher India. Internet speeds crawled. Filing a report from the field was often an act of patience mixed with desperation. Reporters waited endlessly for emails to send, sometimes silently […]
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By mid-morning on Monday, the scenes outside BJP offices across India had already answered the question that Indian politics had been asking for decades. Workers were dancing in the streets. Sweets were being distributed with the abandon of people who had stopped daring to hope and suddenly found themselves proven wrong. From Delhi to Guwahati, […]
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When MPs walk out, not one, not two, but seven, it stops being a personnel matter and becomes a political statement. The staggered departure of Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha members is not merely an organisational inconvenience ahead of Punjab’s assembly elections. It is a signal flare, and the party would be reckless to dismiss […]
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In politics, defeat is rarely just defeat. Sometimes, it is theatre. Sometimes, it is a strategy. And occasionally, it is both at once. The rejection of the women’s reservation bill, popularly framed as Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, falls squarely into that uneasy space. On paper, it is a legislative loss for the ruling NDA government […]
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Nobody warns you that love arrives in fragments. Not in one clean moment you can point to later and say — there, that’s when it happened — but in pieces, scattered across years, showing up in unexpected places. A half-remembered film. A line of dialogue that means nothing the first time and everything the fifth.I […]
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The North News Chandigarh, January 13 The United Kingdom has before it a rare opportunity to demonstrate moral leadership by recognising the enduring importance of history—and by acting on it. The Punjab government’s request for access to original archival audio and video recordings linked to the trial of revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar […]
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The North News Chandigarh, December 16 Punjab’s law-and-order crisis is no longer a matter of perception or political sparring; it is a lived reality, written in blood across its streets. The killing of a 30-year-old kabaddi player in Mohali on Monday was not just another crime statistic — it was a chilling demonstration of how […]
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The North News New Delhi, December 6 The chaos that engulfed India’s busiest airports this week did not surface overnight. It was the result of months of ignored warnings, regulatory deadlines and an airline determined to expand faster than it could staff its own flights. When IndiGo — the country’s largest carrier — suddenly began […]
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