Badar Bashir, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

AAP not keen on announcing Gujarat CM face early

Party believes that an early decision on the same could impact its electoral prospects. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), banking on its Punjab...

The Azad-Congress duel comes to an end

Rahul Gandhi’s decision to appoint Vikar Rasool Wani directly created a deep divide. New Delhi: When the Jammu and Kashmir Congress unit was recently reconstituted,...

TRS wary of BJP ahead of Munugode bypoll

TRS leaders believe that the bypoll could be bipolar between BJP and TRS, sending the Congress on the back foot. New Delhi: After Congress MLA...

AAP plans to turn BJP’s ‘revdi culture’ attack into election issue

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is planning to turn around the “revdi culture” attack by the BJP into an electoral issue. AAP...

Tough for J&K Congress chief to sort out mess

Vikar Rasool Wani will find it hard to strike a balance and disentangle the party from the mess it finds itself in. New Delhi: Though...

Delhi Congress may get a new chief soon

New Delhi: The Congress in Delhi is seen as an inactive force, with its own party leaders blaming it of not being able to...

Delay in CUET hits students’ wider academic plans

NEW DELHI: The delay due to the extension by another eight days of the CUET-UG schedule following examination cancellation at several centres last week...

J&K parties in hibernation After EC move on poll rolls

Parties lament that elections won’t happen this year too. NEW DELHI: After the extension of deadline for the final publication of electoral rolls in Jammu...

Congress yet to decide on UP state unit head

A decision will be taken within two months, a Congress leader said. NEW DELHI: After the poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh early this year, and...

Congress trying to rework caste arithmetic after power shift in Bihar

Party to keep appointments in seven states pending till the AICC president is elected. NEW DELHI: With the Congress emerging as a minor alliance partner...

Afghan Sikh relates tales of horror back home

New Delhi: On the intervening night of Sunday and Monday last week, at 3o’clock, some men lined up to enter a house in Afghanistan when...

Congress-JMM opt for image makeover in Jharkhand

Move comes after three Jharkhand Congress MLAs were caught in West Bengal carrying Rs 50 lakh. New Delhi: After three MLAs of Jharkhand Congress were...

People of Gujarat are fed up with both BJP and Congress: AAP

AAP’s Indranil Rajguru says the party will do well in the Assembly polls. In June this year, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced a...

A guarantee a week is AAP’s way to be in the public eye in Gujarat

New Delhi: The AAP in Gujarat is trying a different strategy in Gujarat to create a space between the two major national parties, Congress...

Traders oppose food hub in main Chandni Chowk market

‘Main Chandni Chowk does not have sufficient space to house cloud kitchens and food trucks’. New Delhi: As one of Delhi’s largest wholesale market, Chandni...

All JMM MLAs, MPs in touch with us: Deepak Prakash

The opposition BJP in Jharkhand has been preparing on multiple fronts and increasing its political base in the tribal areas. New Delhi: The alliance between...

Shiv Sena (Uddhav) worried about losing party name, symbol

New Delhi: This week, Shiv Sena’s 12 out of 19 Lok Sabha members switched to the breakaway faction led by Eknath Shinde that already...

‘Toy imports to drop further by over 10% by 2025’

The toy market in India has seen exponential growth in recent years. Imports fell by around 70% and India’s toy export market increased by...

‘RBI’s Vostro account will have long-term benefits’

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India move to start “Vostro account” to facilitate global trade in rupee is an initiative towards internationalising the...

Congress to form national panel after intra-party polls

‘The panel’s major role would be to form strategies for 2024 general elections’. New Delhi: The Congress is going to form a new committee after...

AAP strengthens itself to woo voters in Gujarat

‘The youth is getting attracted towards AAP, women are also getting attracted’. New Delhi: After the victory in Punjab, the AAP is focusing on the...

‘AAP is emerging as a third front in Himachal Pradesh’

That’s what AAP leaders believe as 50% door-to-door campaign has been completed in the state. New Delhi: In a state where Assembly elections are bipolar...

State PCC chiefs’ selection will remain pending until AICC elections

State unit presidents will be hand-picked by the new AICC president. New Delhi: As the Congress has kept pending the appointments and replacement of Pradesh...

‘Only a skeleton is left in the name of Delhi Congress’

New Delhi: The Congress is rapidly losing its presence among the people in Delhi. The reason for its decline, party leaders say, is “groupism”...

BJP tries to reclaim tribal voters in Jharkhand

Party’s leaders say that the outreach programme includes meeting all tribal families to know their worries. New Delhi: Two years ahead of the Assembly elections,...

Congress in Kashmir may get a new president

Two names that are making the rounds in party circles are of Tariq Hamid Karra and G.M. Suroori. New Delhi: After a long wait, directionless...

How Eknath Shinde grew more powerful than Uddhav

Shinde’s display of power politics has sent shockwaves within the coalition partners. New Delhi: When the collapse of the Maharashtra Vikas Agadhi (MVA) coalition government...

‘BJP will win five legislative council seats in Maharashtra’

‘BJP leaders believe that the party has an upper hand in the MLC elections’. NEW DELHI: After a surprising win of the BJP’s third candidate...

I will die as a Congressman: Bhupen Borah

NEW DELHI:fter eight consecutive electoral losses in Assam, the Congress has been on the decline. The Sunday Guardian talked to Bhupen Kumar Borah, who...

AAP to strengthen organisation structure in Jammu and Kashmir

NEW DELHI: As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is busy with elections in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, party leaders in Jammu and Kashmir indicated...

Congress is in a steep decline in Uttar Pradesh

Hit by one crisis after another, infighting within the party has demotivated Congress workers. New Delhi: Three months after the poll drubbing, the Congress in...

MCD’s flyover mural has a ‘green’ message for Delhiites

New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) last week unveiled Delhi-NCR’s largest mural on a flyover’s retaining walloutside the MotiBagh metro station. The...

Eye on Presidential polls, KCR meets Opposition leaders

New Delhi: TRS supremo and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) has been having extensive discussions with Opposition leaders, including non-BJP Chief Ministers...

JMM fields own RS candidate, Jharkhand alliance in a tizzy

All 16 Congress MLAs have shown resentment at the JMM’s decision. New Delhi: After the JMM nominated its own candidate on the Rajya Sabha seat...

Prashant Kishor may tie up with smaller parties after Bihar padayatra

Prashant Kishor has started preparing the ground to form his political outfit in Bihar. New Delhi: Ace strategist Prashant Kishor has started building the ground...

Raja Warring is Congress’ frontrunner for Sangrur bypolls

‘Raja Warring, due to his appeal among the masses, could be the right candidate to fight against AAP’. New Delhi: After Bhagwant Mann of the...

Cracks re-emerging in Rajasthan Congress

Congress is witnessing a tussle mainly between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. New Delhi: As political parties are gearing up for 2023 Assembly elections in...

Congress prepares for Naresh Patel’s entry

According to sources in the party, the campaign committee chief’s post has been kept for Naresh Patel only. New Delhi: The Congress in Gujarat is...

A walk through the newly opened PMs’ museum

‘PM Modi is the most popular followed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Indira Gandhi. Lal Bahadur Shastri is also liked occasionally’. The newly Integrated Prime...

Overtly Hindu face may become UP Congress chief

‘Acharya Pramod Krishnam is more likely to be made the president of the party in the state’. New Delhi: After months of silence in the...

Congress tries to ease tension between Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar

Both ex-CM Siddaramaiah and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar want to be the CM face in 2023. New Delhi: As the two prominent leaders in the...

AAP wants to field a strong candidate for Delhi’s Rajendra Nagar byelection

New Delhi: After the Rajendra Nagar Assembly seat became vacant following AAP’s Raghav Chadha’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab, the party is...

Kashmir witnesses record tourist footfall in four months

6.5 lakh tourists visited the valley between January and April. Srinagar: A girl in her teens standing on the bank of the Dal Lake had...

AAP keen to fill political vacuum in Kashmir

‘We have come up with a development model which is universal’. Srinagar: The AAP has seen a big rise in online membership in Jammu and...

Maken emerges frontrunner for Rajindra Nagar seat

‘Party leaders believe that he is the only powerful person in the Congress who can win the seat’. Srinagar: After the Rajendra Nagar Assembly constituency went...

SP to sideline old guard, Akhilesh stays party chief

NEW DELHI: After the Samajwadi Party (SP) lost the Assembly elections against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh last month, the party will go through...

‘AAP eyes tag of principal opposition party in Himachal’

NEW DELHI: After the AAP’s state unit’s top leadership merged with the BJP, the AAP is trying to bring back to life the party...

TMC wants to be a strong opposition party in Assam: Ripun Bora

NEW DELHI: As the Congress in Assam has been facing an existential crisis due to many of its leaders leaving the grand old party,...

Congress in Assam is facing an existential crisis

Many Congress leaders may join ruling BJP and other parties like TMC and AAP. New Delhi: The Congress in Assam is facing existential crisis and...

The Poor in Jahangirpuri struggle to earn their livelihood

Restrictions in the area have left several market lanes closed. New Delhi: As the restrictions in Jahangirpuri have left several market lanes closed, poor locals...

Jharkhand witnesses strong voter turnout in final phase

Child protection: The Just Right for Children Alliance case

J&K gears up for panchayat, municipal elections

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