The Daily Fix: AAP’s aborted protest suggests Centre only pays lip service to cooperative federalism

Everything you need to know for the day (and a little more).

Ipsita Chakravarty

· 4 hours ago

Indira Gandhi’s conscience keeper? ‘I could not become a ‘keeper’ of something which did not exist’

Extracts from a new biography of the former prime minister’s close aide, PN Haksar, who has been called her ‘moral and ideological compass from 1967 to 1972’.

Jairam Ramesh

· 6 hours ago

Video: What explains UK's snub to Indian students on relaxed visa rules

Every morning, Scroll.in brings you the day’s most important stories to start you ahead.

Scroll Staff

· 8 hours ago

By rallying for Kejriwal in Delhi, four non-BJP chief ministers have sent Congress a strong message

Regional satraps seem to be making it clear that the party will not get to call the shots in the anti-BJP alliance.

Anita Katyal

· 8 hours ago

Sri Lanka is helping Japan contain an increasingly assertive China. Can it afford to?

Given the island nations’s strategic location, Sri Lanka is courted by almost every country preoccupied with security in the Indian Ocean Region.

Anne-Léonore Dardenne

· Yesterday · 09:30 pm

Why I am resigning from the BJP: A Narendra Modi supporter and party campaign analyst explains

‘The real negative of this government is how it has affected the national discourse with a well considered strategy. This isn’t a failure, it’s the plan.’

Shivam Shankar Singh

· Yesterday · 05:27 pm

The Weekend Fix: What Lionel Messi’s penalty miss means, plus nine more reads

Everything you need to know for the day (and a little more).

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Yesterday · 09:10 am

Bangla pride vs ‘Hindi-Hindu-Hindustani’: In West Bengal, a new Trinamool front to counter the BJP?

Garga Chatterjee, the ‘quasi-spokesperson’ of the ruling party, has started a ‘new type of non-partisan nationalist political organisation’.

Aritra Bhattacharya

· Yesterday · 09:00 am

India’s rising paranoia and the myth of the persecuted Hindu

Hostility against minorities is growing at a time when Hindus are more powerful and privileged than ever.

Samar Halarnkar

· Yesterday · 08:00 am

To beat BJP in three poll-bound states, Congress is working on an alliance with civil society groups

This follows the party’s successful strategy in Gujarat to partner mass leaders Jignesh Mevani, Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor.

Anita Katyal

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

How far can Europe push back its borders? The case of France in Niger

Emmanuel Macron announced last year that France would create ‘hotspots’ in the Sahel-Sahara region to sort out potential refugees.

Virginie Grzelczyk, The Conversation

· Jun 16, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Afghanistan: 20 killed in explosion at gathering of security forces and Taliban in Nangarhar

They were celebrating an unprecedented ceasefire between their sides.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 16, 2018 · 08:23 pm