Badar Bashir, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Congress to contest MP elections on Himachal, Karnataka lines

The party’s major focus would be on issues related to women and farmers. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Madhya Pradesh is planning to contest the...

DMK’s ‘social justice pitch’ for Opposition unity takes a hit

NEW DELHI: After Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held talks with Rahul Gandhi to initiate strengthening of Opposition unity, the Dravidra Munetra Kazhagham’s idea...

KCR eyes third term in Telangana

NEW DELHI: The ruling party in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi, is eyeing to come back to power for the third term after its internal...

‘Ajit Pawar’s exit will create greater space for Supriya Sule’

‘Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule are poles apart in their administrative prowess’. NEW DELHI: As speculation about Ajit Pawar switching sides is continuing to grow,...

J&K Congress is in a critical phase

Leadership has given responsibilities to those who are either ‘new’ to politics or those who have least ‘political acumen’. NEW DELHI: Three months after the...

Rajasthan Congress faces poll hurdles: Internal survey

As the Congress is struggling to show a united face in Rajasthan, an internal party survey conducted lately under the Congress’ national leadership has...

Mamata wants Patna to be Opposition’s political Base

The TMC chief wants to cut to size the ‘big brother role of Congress party’. NEW DELHI: After West Bengal Mamata Banerjee made a request...

‘Triple talaq Ban has created a sense of security in marriage for Muslim women’

New Delhi: After the Narendra Modi government introduced the law to criminalise triple talaq (verbal divorce), Muslim women who were divorced before the law...

An all-women company selling mulberry products globally

After starting her venture of producing silk with other women, with minimum resources, Nutan Devi, a resident of Bihar, is now part of a...

When then CM Modi called Rajkumari Devi ‘Kisan Chachi’

After a long struggle, she managed to learn cycling at the age of 40, so that she could travel and sell pickles on it....

PM praised her work for the blind, differently Abled

After going through a lot of eye treatment, Mukta P. Dagli could not retain her eyesight. Later, when she was studying, she realised that...

‘One needs to have courage to do something in life’

Asia’s first motor woman, famously known as India’s first female loco pilot, and recently mentioned by Prime Minister Modi in his podcast “Mann ki...

Woman implements plan to end water crisis in village

Babita Rajput came up with an idea of water conservation which transformed the lives of villagers in the Bundelkhand region. Struggling from the water crisis...

Pilot explores options to keep himself relevant

Pilot contacted Kishor to help him in his image-building before the Assembly polls: Sources NEW DELHI: After a failed show from Sachin Pilot in trying...

Tiff in SP-RLD UP alliance over seat distribution

Leadership from both sides have termed the differences as ‘temporary’. NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance is going through a...

Prashant Kishor will support Independents in LS polls

‘Kishor hasn’t been able to make his yatra speedy; he has been rather slow’. NEW DELHI: A year ahead of the general elections, Prashant Kishor,...

Congress goes soft on archrival AAP in Delhi

NEW DELHI: The Congress, which has tried to corner AAP on the alleged case of liquor scam, has softened its approach towards it. Interestingly,...

Pilot stands at the exit door of Congress

‘Either he remains in the party without creating trouble or else he won’t be persuaded to stay in the party’. NEW DELHI: After former Rajasthan...

‘Congress brass scared of taking hard decisions’

‘Party fears consequences of such magnitude that they cannot manage, making it an ever scared leadership’. NEW DELHI: After having tumultuous months of bickering between...

BRS aims for major swing in Dalit votes in its favour

‘KCR is targeting to get the votes of Telangana’s 17% Dalit population, which can help him counter the tide of anti-incumbency’. NEW DELHI: With the...

‘Pilot may be Congress CM face in Rajasthan Assembly polls’

‘The strategy is to make him the chairman of the campaign committee and project him as the top leader’. NEW DELHI: Sachin Pilot may be...

‘BRS-Congress tie-up possible for Lok Sabha polls’

‘However, a decision will be taken after the upcoming Assembly elections later this year’. NEW DELHI: As there is strong support from Opposition camps for...

Congress pushing narrative to dub JDS as BJP’s B-team

‘D.K. Shivakumar has recently met H.D. Kumaraswamy to strike a deal’. NEW DELHI: As the Congress is trying its best to attain full majority in...

Union Minister Smriti Irani presents Shakti awards to women achievers

NEW DELHI: Speaking at iTV Network’s “We Women Want” Conclave at the Taj Vivanta Ambassador, Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smriti Irani,...

‘We Women Want platform created to celebrate women’

iTV Network hosts second edition of the ‘We Women Want’ conclave. NEW DELHI: The iTV Network hosted the second edition of the “We Women Want”...

Uzbekis love Indian culture, Bollywood: Shibani Kashyap

The Indie-pop queen recently performed in Uzbekistan on the occasion of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations. New Delhi: Shibani Kashyap, a renowned Indian singer, is...

‘Opposition support for Rahul is issue-based’

‘Opposition alliance is not on the agenda currently’. NEW DELHI: After all anti-BJP opposition parties came together against Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha, major...

Tharoor may get inducted in CWC

NEW DELHI: With many of the top leaders expecting their names to be nominated for the Congress Working Committee (CWC), it is believed by...

Congress on a tightrope ahead of Karnataka polls

NEW DELHI: With the Election Commission announcing the Karnataka Assembly election date on 10 May, Congress in the state has entered a challenging phase....

‘AAP’s soft approach towards Congress is not sudden’

‘The AAP leadership knows that it needs to go along with Congress and support it against the BJP’. NEW DELHI: There is a clear message...

‘TDP-JSP alliance sans BJP in the works in Andhra’

‘Both TDP and Pawan Kalyan’s JSP agree that if they have to protect their interests, coming together would benefit both’. NEW DELHI: Telugu Desam Party...

Opposition unity a major challenge for Congress

‘Regional players believe that contesting with the Congress may not help the parties’ Lok Sabha poll prospects’. NEW DLEHI: Even after the success of Rahul...

Rahul set to lose official 12 Tughlaq Lane residence

‘Greater threat to the party is that unless a higher court stays his conviction, he won’t be able to contest elections for 8 years’. NEW...

‘Gehlot unlikely to be replaced by Pilot in Rajasthan’

‘Gehlot has a single point agenda, and that is Pilot must not be made the CM’. NEW DELHI: For several political analysts, a change in...

Congress in UP struggling, cadre demoralised

NEW DELHI: The Congress in Uttar Pradesh has been struggling to bring in a leadership that could salvage the party from its persistent decline....

MVA starts early preparations for Lok Sabha polls

Sources said that the alliance has decided on its seat-sharing formula for 2024 elections. NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a combine of Congress,...

‘Need a J&K Congress chief sans poll ambitions’

New Delhi: The Congress in Jammu and Kashmir is finding it difficult to keep the party leaders together. Party insiders claim that there is...

Tharoor tries to establish himself as a mass leader

‘He is seeking for himself a bigger position in the organisation’. NEW DELHI: As the focus on Congress’ top body Congress Working Committee (CWC) is...

If Kavitha is arrested, it will create a sympathy for party, say BRS leaders

NEW DELHI: As Telangana’s ruling party leader K. Kavitha, who is also the daughter of the state chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, is facing...

Congress needs a full-time president in J&K

NEW DELHI: The Congress in Jammu and Kashmir launched “hath se hath jodo abhiyan” this week. However, according to sources, the momentum it was...

MVA meet of leaders will be Uddhav’s show of strength against BJP

‘The plan is to manifest authority by summoning powerful satraps and show to the BJP that Uddhav won’t go slow’. NEW DELHI: The Maha Vikas...

Rajasthan cadre loses significance for Congress

Infighting between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot has created a void between the state leadership and high command. NEW DELHI: As the Congress’ Rajasthan cadre...

A dark horse may emerge as Rajasthan Congress’CM face

‘High command may explore a third option to get rid of problems caused by Gehlot-Pilot rift’. NEW DELHI: The Congress is in deep waters over...

Sarma deconstructs Rahul’s Cambridge speech

NEW DELHI: After former Congress president Rahul Gandhi gave a lecture titled “Learning to Listen in the 21st Century” in Cambridge University earlier this...

Tough for Congress to win Rae Bareli LS seat

‘The BJP wants to ensure that Rae Bareli, which is long held by Congress, does not remain with it.’ NEW DELHI: Speculation is rife over...

Grassroots politics in need of greater women participation

All women politicians agree that a perception of ‘what can she do’ runs through the male dominated political landscape. Women’s participation in Indian politics is...

Uddhav-led faction on edge after EC-SC’s Sena symbol move

NEW DELHI: The faction led by Uddhav Thackeray is on an edge after the Election Commission (EC) announced to give the symbol (bow and...

J&K Congress in ‘inactive’ mode after Rahul’s yatra

‘Rahul Gandhi did his job, but who will follow up?” NEW DELHI: After the end of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir, Congress leaders...

India is like a miracle, says Indophile French author

NEW DELHI: Jean-Claude Perrier is a journalist and author of several books, novels, biographies, essays and travel accounts. He was born in Paris in...

BJP focusing on Gujjar-Meena belt in Rajasthan

Gujjars and Meenas are the two major communities comprising around 16% population in the state. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently unveiled the Dausa...

Global South in focus, PM Modi heads for BRICS Summit

Sinwar is dead, but Iran’s IRGC is an existential threat to Israel

Dussehra in Bastar: celebrating progress and transformation

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