Badar Bashir, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

‘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...

After Jahangirpuri riots, cops intensify watch on Trilokpuri

New Delhi: After the unrest in Jahangirpuri, Delhi Police has intensified its watch and patrolling in many areas it considers sensitive to cut down...

Gujarat Congress MLAs believe Hardik Patel won’t join AAP

New Delhi: As the Congress in Gujarat is facing serious challenges to hold their workers back in the party fold, speculation about Hardik Patel...

Hyatt Centric Janakpuri to tap leisure customers in India

The Hyatt Centric brand makes its debut in the national capital. New Delhi: Travelers visiting Delhi will now have a recreation-oriented hotel dedicated to them....

BJP, AAP, Congress expect to benefit from delay in MCD polls

All the parties feel the delay would boost their party’s opportunity to increase the number of seats when the polls happen. New Delhi: The political...

India’s coal production may exceed demand by 2030

Coal analysts believe that production will increase by leaps and bounds due to inclusion of the private sector. New Delhi: India, the second-largest coal-producing country...

NGT imposes fine on RIICO, two Rajasthan districts

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs 2 crore each on Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment Corporation...

Organisational polls are a priority for Congress

New Delhi: After Rahul Gandhi resigned from the Congress president’s post in 2019, the elections for the key post were put off without electing...

Jharkhand Congress struggles with internal discord

New Delhi: Amid internal discord within the Congress and worsening rift with its coalition alliance partner Jharkhand Mukhti Morcha, party leaders are sure that...

Russia-Ukraine war hits India’s energy sector

India’s domestic fuel prices have been rising, adding to the country’s inflation. As the energy prices in international markets are growing by the day, India’s...

Sugarcane production set to rise by over 20% in next crop cycle

‘This will give India an edge to bolster its ethanol production needs’. New Delhi: India’s sugarcane production is set to increase by more than 20%...

Women leaders in UP Congress blame Priyanka Vadra for loss in elections

New Delhi: After the Congress failed to gather any sizeable support from women in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh elections, the leaders in the party...

UP Congress faces rebellion from within

New Delhi: The Congress in Uttar Pradesh is facing serious rebellion in its camp after its failed attempt to establish the grand old party...

Congress faces stiff AAP challenge in Gujarat

New Delhi: The Congress is facing a considerable challenge from AAP in Gujarat after the grand old party failed to win even a single...

Delhi University’s 100-year grand journey from humble beginnings

New Delhi: Starting from humble beginnings, the University of Delhi commenced with just two faculties for arts and science, and was attended by 750...

RJD will dictate terms for an alliance with Congress in Bihar

New Delhi: The distaste between the Congress and RJD in Bihar could be a temporary thing as party leaders from both sides believe that...

CM Gehlot increases communication with junior leaders in Rajasthan

CM Gehlot lays stress on coordination and communication within the party. New Delhi: The Congress in Rajasthan is showing signs of strength as the party...

UP Congress workers demoralized after poll defeat

New Delhi: After the great debacle of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, the morale of the party workers has gone from bad to worse....

Gujarat HC permits Narayan Sai to visit father asaram

Indian intelligence is not just about IB and R&AW anymore

The unlikely heroes of India’s electric vehicles revolution

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