Nishtha Anushree

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which has been a predominantly Jat party for all three decades of its existence, is now looking to expand its voter base to 29 additional castes.

The Haryana assembly election result on 8 October 2024 surprised almost everyone who had covered the campaign. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took 39.94 per cent of the vote and a third term, after ten years in office and losing five of ten Lok Sabha seats in the state four months earlier.

The state that contributes nearly one-fourth of the central pool's paddy is struggling to water its own paddy fields. Punjab is among the states worst hit by this year's monsoon shortfall, and the power cuts that have followed are making even groundwater hard to reach.

Three-and-a-half years after the PM MITRA (Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel) Park was approved for the Lucknow-Hardoi site in Uttar Pradesh, there stands a boundary wall surrounding the 1,000-acre land with a gate complex.

With the protests over the suicide of a second-year BTech student, Sahil Wakode, at IIT Bombay, a tangential argument resurfaced: whether the IITs should have humanities departments at all.

With the protests over the suicide of a second-year BTech student, Sahil Wakode, at IIT Bombay, a tangential argument resurfaced: whether the IITs should have humanities departments at all. Critics alleged that the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS...

Indian film industry has found a new market in Bihar and is trying to cash in on it, as seen in its pursuits in the past few years.

Bhajan Lal Sharma is past the midpoint of his term in Rajasthan. That is usually when the countdown begins, because no government in the state has been re-elected since 1993.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) winning 92 seats in the 2022 Punjab assembly election was a feat that most pollsters didn't expect. No single party had won so many seats in the state since its reorganisation in 1966. The previous high was the Congress's 87 in 1992, won while the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) boycotted the election; turnout that year was 23.82 per cent.

On the evening of 3 October 2026, two men on a motorcycle shot dead Madhusudan Singh, a make-up artist and social media influencer known as Mad Sandhu, on Loharka Road in Amritsar. Within a week, the Amritsar Commissionerate Police had arrested the alleged shooter, Parminder alias Kaka, in Ahmedabad with help from the Gujarat Police, and traced the money behind the killing.