Badar Bashir, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Assam Congress pins hopes on party’s national prospects

It is hoping that the national narrative of the party against the BJP will persuade voters to support it in 2024 elections. The Assam Pradesh...

Difficult for Kejriwal to defeat Centre’s ordinance in RS

Even as AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal is going from pillar to post to gather the support of anti-BJP parties to defeat the Services bill...

Documentary explores Mann ki Baat’s positive impact

History TV18 launched its new documentary, “Mann Ki Baat-Bharat Ki Baat”, which explored the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s path-breaking radio programme, Mann...

Patna meet will indicate grand alliance prospects

After the meeting, we will get a clear trajectory of what we have to do next as a united team’ The much awaited Patna meet...

No decision taken on Gehlot-Pilot feud

As the Congress held the much-awaited meeting on the Rajasthan issue this week to defuse tensions between the current state Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot...

Rahul Gandhi against idea of alliance with AAP

‘However, there is pressure on Congress from a few state parties to take along all those who want to be part of the grand...

Delhi Congress says ‘no’ to peace with AAP

The Delhi Congress has refused to show any signs of holding up a peace deal with Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi....

‘Pilot doesn’t want to leave the Congress’

‘Leaders close to Pilot deny any chances of him launching his own party on 11 June’. NEW DELHI: As the political stand-off between Sachin Pilot...

Jayant wants TIE-UP with SP, Congress, others in U.P.

‘The RLD chief is believed to be in pursuit of a harmonious alliance in the state’. NEW DELHI: With a broad-based Opposition alliance formation in...

Congress to focus on dominating social media narrative in Madhya Pradesh

‘Congress leaders in Madhya Pradesh want the MP cadre to gain from the Karnataka victory momentum’. NEW DELHI: After the Assembly poll victory in Karnataka,...

BRS in Telangana goes into poll mode

BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao will embark on a 120-day tour of the state from July. NEW DELHI: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has kick-started...

Kishor thinking of contesting on 20 LS seats in Bihar

NEW DELHI: Ace strategist Prashant Kishor, who had earlier decided to contest 2024 general elections in Bihar without launching his party, is now contemplating...

All eyes will be on Rahul Gandhi’s US visit

‘Any controversial statement by him on foreign soil would give fresh ammunition to BJP against the Congress’. NEW DELHI: All eyes would be on Rahul...

Adhir stands in way of Mamata-Congress ‘peace’

‘Mamata wants the Bengal Congress chief removed so that there is no apprehension of conflict between the two parties’. NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress supremo and...

Bitter Gehlot, Pilot fight intensifies in Rajasthan

NEW DELHI: The two warring Congress leaders in Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, are again making their battle cries heard. However, this time,...

Picking up local issues helped Congress in Karnataka

All the major leaders are calling the victory a ‘collective effort’ from the rank and file of the party. NEW DELHI: The high-decibel campaign in...

Congress to face a tough battle in Telangana

NEW DELHI: The Congress in Telangana is struggling to put its unit in order as several leaders in the state claim that the party...

Some Congress leaders want Venugopal to go

NEW DELHI: As the Assembly elections in Karnataka are over, all eyes are on the formation of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Congress’ highest...

War of words between NCP and Sena, alliance to continue

NEW DELHI: This week, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena were embroiled in a war of words after NCP chief...

Shivakumar-Siddaramaiah ‘peace’ energises Congress workers

NEW DELHI: The Congress has been able to keep its two top politically dissenting leaders (D.K. Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah) in check in poll-bound Karnataka....

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...

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