Chirag Paswan has turned a once-fractured party into the NDA’s sharpest new instrument, giving the BJP its most credible alternative to Nitish Kumar yet. For years, Chirag Paswan occupied an awkward corner of Bihar’s politics - too slight to be taken seriously, too famous to be dismissed. But the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections have reordered the hierarchy. His Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), written off after a family split and an electoral drubbing, has re-emerged as the NDA

After a crushing win, Bihar’s long-time chief returns with renewed mandate and a reminder of his political agility. Nitish Kumar has been declared many things over the years: wily survivor, serial shapeshifter, ‘sushasan babu,’ ‘Mr. Clean’ and, more recently, a fading star. But when the results flashed on Friday evening as the NDA sweeping past the 200-seat mark in the 243-member Assembly, one line captured the mood from Patna’s bylanes to its party offices: “Bihar ka ek hi s

Struggling NCP heir Parth Pawar’s newest scandal revives old doubts about Maharashtra’s most accident-prone dynast. A Rs. 300-crore land deal gone awry in Pune has once again cast an unflattering light on Parth Pawar, son of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and grand-nephew of the formidable Sharad Pawar. Parth has long been a magnet for controversy, the sort of heir whose every attempt to prove his worth seems to end

Once the voice of Appalachian disillusionment, America’s Vice-President now plays to the MAGA gallery, as remarks on his Hindu wife expose the uneasy marriage between faith and opportunism. Few politicians embody America’s moral whiplash quite like Vice-President J.D. Vance. Once a sceptic of Donald Trump and the politics of resentment, he has reinvented himself as Trumpism’s most polished apostle. This week, that balancing act came perilously close to collapse. At a Turning

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s mix of pride and pragmatism defines both his rise and the fragility of his alliances. Hemant Soren has never been one for grand theatrics. Measured, even brooding, the Jharkhand Chief Minister exudes a quiet defiance that conceals a calculating mind. The latest rupture with his allies in Bihar ahead of a key Assembly election has once again brought to the surface the contradictions that have long defined his politics: a leader proud of his roots ye

Ashley Tellis’ arrest exposes how Chinese influence operations and think-tank funding networks have blurred the line between scholarship and statecraft. For decades Ashley J. Tellis was the cleverest man in the room. A Mumbai-born academic who climbed to the summit of Washington’s strategic establishment, he helped craft the Bush administration’s civil-nuclear deal with India, taught realism to idealists, and wrote with the serene assurance of one who believed himself indispe

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As Gen Z protests reshape Nepal’s political landscape, a former judge takes the reins. Beset by mass protests and clamorous calls for...

Imran Khan’s political innings continues in defiance against Pakistan’s generals. Imran Khan has never been one for half-measures. As a...

Asim Munir thrives on nuclear blackmail, jihadist venom and shameless self-glorification while his enablers in Washington look the other...

Rahul Gandhi has turned the Congress into an echo chamber by peddling conspiracy, parroting the narrative of India’s adversaries and...

Divya Deshmukh’s World Cup victory signals a generational shift in Indian chess. For much of the past two decades, Indian chess has...

Keir Starmer delivers a landmark India trade deal with quiet efficiency while Britain waits for something more. Earlier this week,...

The nomination of Meenakshi Jain to the Rajya Sabha marks the ascent of an unapologetically indigenous view of Indian history into the...

Vaibhav Taneja, Tesla’s CFO, is now bankrolling Elon Musk’s political rebellion. Elon Musk’s long-simmering feud with Donald Trump has...

At 90, the Dalai Lama is confronting the future of his reincarnation with resolve and without deference to Beijing. On July 2, in the...

Though elected on an isolationist promise, President Trump’s Middle East doctrine has alarmed MAGA purists by embracing strength and...