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    Strange shift: Bengal’s Left Front is melting away – into the BJP

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · May 17, 2019 · 09:00 am
  • Election watch: Opposition mocks PM Modi for redirecting questions at press meet to Amit Shah

    Election watch: Opposition mocks PM Modi for redirecting questions at press meet to Amit Shah

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    · May 17, 2019 · 08:42 am
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    Can BJP retake Adityanath’s Gorakhpur stronghold? The Nishad community holds the key

    Akash Bisht
    · May 16, 2019 · 06:30 pm
  • Narendra Modi had asked for 10 years to transform India. This book asks if he should get them

    Narendra Modi had asked for 10 years to transform India. This book asks if he should get them

    John Elliott
    · May 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • Adityanath invokes Ram Manohar Lohia’s prophecy to suggest Modi will be PM for 25 years

    Adityanath invokes Ram Manohar Lohia’s prophecy to suggest Modi will be PM for 25 years

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    · May 16, 2019 · 11:22 am
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    The Election Fix: Is the non-BJP, non-Congress ‘Federal Front’ just an electoral mirage?

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    · May 16, 2019 · 09:30 am
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    Kolkata violence: Campaigning in West Bengal will end at 10 pm on Thursday, says poll panel

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    · May 15, 2019 · 08:21 pm
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    Half the Vote: A Mumbai woman struggles to take control of her life – and her political choices

    Nayantara Narayanan
    · May 15, 2019 · 06:30 pm
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    We’ve got enough ammunition: Shastri not worried about No 4 slot in ‘flexible’ Indian team

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    · May 15, 2019 · 01:36 pm
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    Vidyasagar statue smashed: Trinamool pushes its Bengali nativist messaging for last phase in Kolkata

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · May 15, 2019 · 09:00 am
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    Election watch: Mamata Banerjee says EC is full of ‘RSS people’ after campaigning time is curtailed

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    · May 15, 2019 · 08:54 am
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    Pep Guardiola edges Jurgen Klopp to win manager of the year award, Pochettino third

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    · May 15, 2019 · 08:40 am
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    The real ‘Gentleman Jack’: The ‘first modern lesbian’ who was as brave in politics as in sex

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    · May 15, 2019 · 08:15 am
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    The Readers’ Editor writes: Modi’s views on media’s neutrality and journalists’ bias are dangerous

    Kalpana Sharma
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    · May 14, 2019 · 08:56 am
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    Congress’ ‘hua to hua’ remark reflects party’s arrogance, Narendra Modi says in Madhya Pradesh

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    · May 13, 2019 · 02:14 pm
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    Lok Sabha polls: SC dismisses plea seeking to start polling at 5 am during Ramzan

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    · May 13, 2019 · 12:43 pm
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    ‘If there is anyone in BJP who can admonish me, it is Sumitra Mahajan,’ says Narendra Modi

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    · May 13, 2019 · 12:38 pm
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