Between Siddaramaiah’s grip on power and Shivakumar’s restless ambition, the Karnataka Congress is trapped in a succession spiral. Karnataka Karnataka today has two chief ministers - one by office, the other by expectation. The power tussle between Siddaramaiah and his deputy, D.K. Shivakumar, has slipped so completely into the open that the Congress’s ritual denials sound like political farce. A whispered ‘understanding’ after the 2023 victory that each would get the CM’s po

The Masala Bond gamble that helped fuel Kerala’s infrastructure boom now lays bare the Left’s uneasy marriage with the markets. Kerala For a party that built its moral brand on austerity, probity and suspicion of global finance, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has developed a striking fondness for financial alchemy. Kerala’s celebrated experiment with rupee-denominated ‘Masala Bonds’ was meant to signal modern, market-savvy governance under Chief Minister Pinarayi Vija

Delhi’s winter smog is the symptom of a chronic governance failure. Delhi Even with farm fires at a multi-year low, Delhi-NCR’s winter air remains suffocating. For most of October and November, pollution levels oscillated between “very poor” and “severe,” fuelled not by distant fields but by a rising cocktail of PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide from vehicles, industry, waste burning and domestic fuel. According to the Centre for Science and Environment, 22 monitori

Born of bureaucratic logic in Delhi, the Chandigarh proposal has collided headlong with history and federal nerves in Punjab. Punjab The Centre’s recent aborted attempt to pull Chandigarh under Article 240 has turned incendiary. The proposal on November 21 “to amend the Constitution to bring Chandigarh under Article 240” detonated like a depth charge beneath Punjab’s already choppy waters. The reaction in Punjab was immediate and furious. Chief minister Bhagwant Mann accused

The killing of Madvi Hidma suggests the long-running Maoist insurgency in Andhra Pradesh and central India is entering its terminal phase. Andhra Pradesh The recent killing of Madvi Hidma, one of the most feared commanders of the banned CPI (Maoist), signals yet another decisive turn in a conflict that has shaped the political and security landscape of India’s heartland for half a century. Hidma, who was Central Committee member, head of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army

M.K. Stalin’s cynical campaign against the Election Commission reeks of political theatre, not principle. Tamil Nadu In Chennai’s political theatre, few performers relish the spotlight as much as M.K. Stalin. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, scion of the Dravidian dynasty that has ruled the state for much of the past half-century, now casts himself as democracy’s last defender. His latest move was to summon a grand all-party meeting railing against the Election Commission’s Spe

Priyank Kharge’s gaffe over semiconductor investments exposes not just Congress’s tone-deafness, but its failure to grasp India’s new industrial geography. Assam India’s race to join the global semiconductor club was never going to be easy. Building chip fabs requires billions in investment and, above all, political will. Yet, amid this high-stakes competition, the Congress party has managed to turn a debate about national industrial policy into an episode of regional insult.

The Trinamool Congress’s cynical politics of appeasement has corroded the moral and administrative foundations of West Bengal. West Bengal In Kakdwip, a quiet coastal town better known for its fishing boats and pilgrim traffic to Sagar Island, something far more sinister surfaced this week. The decapitated idols of Goddess Kali and Lord Shiva, found lying in a puja pandal, have set off a political and moral conflagration. The discovery of the vandalised idols, swiftly followe

Karnataka Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Congress-led government recently turned a welfare milestone into a global embarrassment. By flaunting two ‘world records’ certified by a dissolved British firm, the Congress regime there has revealed its craving for validation at any cost. On October 16, the Chief Minister triumphantly announced that Karnataka had “entered the global stage” with the Shakti Scheme and the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC)

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Odisha’s law-and-order collapse is costing its most vulnerable their lives Odisha Odisha’s long-ignored crisis of systemic sexual...

A massive liquor scandal exposes Andhra Pradesh’s circular politics of vendetta, offshore money trails, and electoral manipulation....