Mayank Kumar, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

BJP prepares for battle in Himachal Pradesh

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gearing up for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled next year. In a recent brainstorming...

AIADMK aims to make a comeback in Tamil Nadu

After the debacle in Assembly polls, the AIADMK is making an all-out effort in the local body polls. New Delhi: After the debacle in the...

Bihar bypolls will decide Mahagathbandhan’s fate

RJD and Congress are fighting the bypolls separately, signalling that the alliance is no more. New Delhi: The Assembly bypolls in two constituencies of Bihar...

Congress seeks to nullify TMC challenge in Northeast

New Delhi: In view of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) expanding its footprints in the Northeast, the Indian National Congress (INC) has started drawing up...

BJP aims big in Rajasthan

The BJP is thinking of repeating its 2013 performance in the state, but factionalism remains a key hurdle in its 2023 mission. New Delhi: While...

NDA is united in Bihar: Neeraj Kumar

The politics of Bihar is going through an interesting phase. Two young leaders, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Chirag Paswan, are trying to challenge the...

Mission UP: BJP aims AT micro level booth management

Besides booth management, the party will focus on the 70 Assembly seats it was not able to win the last time. New Delhi: The Bharatiya...

China’s BRI faces major resistance in Nepal

New Delhi: Projects that are a part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and other investments across Nepal are facing significant resistance from...

RLD banking on SP-led alliance for its revival

The ongoing farm protest in which the Jats are at the epicenter had given the party hope of reviving its electoral fortunes. New Delhi: The...

Opposition parties gear up to take on KCR

Both the BJP and the Congress are trying to strengthen their organizational base in the state and corner the chief minister. Opposition parties in Telangana...

Congress trying to corner Karnataka’s BJP government

The Congress is trying to project a united front and exploit the fault lines in the ruling BJP. The Congress is trying to project a...

JDU sees cold war between rival factions

Party is witnessing a tussle between two factions, with its supreme leader Nitish Kumar remaining silent on the issue. New Delhi: With the appointment of...

Congress faces leadership issues in Gujarat

New Delhi: The sudden developments in the Gujarat government where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had changed the chief minister and the entire cabinet,...

BJP to change its Kerala strategy

After the poll debacle, the party is trying to frame a long-term strategy to reach a 20% vote share. New Delhi: After the debacle in...

To corner India, China’s ‘expansionist virus’ active in Nepal

New Delhi: The Himalayan nation of Nepal, which is considered a buffer zone between two Asian giants India and China, had in recent times...

Agencies tracking Turkey-based group’s anti-India activities in Nepal

New Delhi: Indian security agencies are keeping a close eye on the activities of the controversial Turkey-based Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief...

BJP’s preparations pick up pace in Jharkhand

Amid news of cracks in the ruling alliance, the BJP is trying to regain its lost ground in the state. New Delhi: After being defeated...

Odisha is key to BJP’s pan-India plans

Party’s central leadership is indicating that the state is on top of their priority list. New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is the...

Vehicle thief gang with Kashmir links active in Delhi-NCR

Cops had recently busted a gang active in Delhi-NCR and are looking for evidence about their links with Kashmir. New Delhi: Delhi police had recently...

‘Wait and watch should be India’s Afghan strategy’

‘India should engage with the countries in the region with whom interests converge and wait’. New Delhi: With the capture of Kabul by the Taliban,...

‘Congress not a force multiplier for any alliance in UP’

The party may try to forge an alliance with the Samajwadi Party like in 2017 for a united opposition. The Indian National Congress (INC) is...

BJP, Sena get ready for BMC battle

The BJP had given Narayan Rane the task to damage the Shiv Sena in the ‘mini-Assembly’ elections. New Delhi: The fight between the Shiv Sena...

Intelligence agencies keep an eye on Tihar

New Delhi: The intelligence agencies are keeping a close eye on the Tihar jail, amid allegations that many of the criminal activities around entire...

‘Crisis in Afghanistan will hit Pakistan the most’

New Delhi: Pakistan was the only country which had hailed the invasion of the Taliban in Afghanistan by issuing supporting statements, but many believe...

Uphill task for new Assam Cong chief

Bhupen Borah has to energise the cadre and keep the Congress as the only alternative against BJP in the state. New Delhi: The Congress looks...

A united Opposition is our aim: Akhilesh Singh

‘It is true that regional parties are strong in some states, but Congress is the only other pan-India party’. New Delhi: Since the Monsoon session...

‘Kalyan Singh helped consolidate the Hindutva ideology within OBCs’

‘He acted as a bridge between the non-Yadav OBCs and BJP which was till then believed to be a Brahmin-Baniya party’. New Delhi: With the...

Tej Pratap, Tejashwi Yadav Succession battle escalates

The feud in the RJD has the potential to damage its electoral prospects in the state. New Delhi: The ongoing feud in the Rashtriya Janata...

ISI-Pak military played a role in Taliban’s coup in Afghanistan

ISI provided the Taliban training, funding and supplies in the border areas of Pakistan adjoining Afghanistan, for the last 20 years. New Delhi: With the...

After Bengal triumph, Mamata eyes national role

All indications are that TMC leader Mamata Banerjee is determined to play a crucial role in the national poll landscape. New Delhi: Since the spectacular...

Akhilesh Yadav focuses on non-Yadav OBCs in Mission UP

SP is accommodating smaller parties in the hope of denting the non-Yadav OBC vote bank of the BJP. New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party (SP), the...

With Lalan Singh as JDU chief, Nitish puts speculation to rest

Singh’s appointment came as a surprise for many within the political circles of Patna and New Delhi. With the appointment of Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias...

Stormy session saw ‘confrontational politics’

The recently concluded Parliament session was one of the least productive sessions in many decades. New Delhi: The recently concluded monsoon session of Parliament was...

BJP, AAP, Congress get ready for MCD polls

Poll preparations got halted because of the second Covid-19 wave, which wreaked havoc in the national capital. New Delhi: All the three main contenders, the...

Delhi police hunt for 3,000 prisoners who jumped Covid parole, bail

New Delhi: Of the over 6,000 inmates who were released during the two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest Delhi’s jails and prevent...

‘Upper castes won’t desert the BJP anytime soon’

New Delhi: With the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expanding its social base by giving more representation to the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) groups...

BSP’s mission U.P. banks on Brahmin-Dalit alliance

Riding on the social engineering formula, the BSP won power in 2007; it wants to repeat the same in 2022 polls. New Delhi: The Bahujan...

‘Pakistan military may install an Imran-Zardari government in 2023’

New Delhi: With Pakistan again becoming a frontline state in the “Great Game” with the US withdrawal from the Afghanistan theatre, the army establishment...

Cracks in Jharkhand govt amid reports of horse trading

Role of a few disgruntled Congress MLAs is under scanner for alleged horse trading. With the arrest of three persons on charges of trying to...

Ahead of polls, leadership crisis in Himachal Congress

After Virbhadra Singh’s demise, the question is who can lead the party and prepare for the upcoming Assembly elections. New Delhi: After the demise of...

Harish Rawat to be Congress face in Uttarakhand polls

‘No other leader in the party has such a mass base as the 73-year-old Rawat’. New Delhi: With former chief minister and party national general...

Is Bihar staring at mid-term elections?

Discomfort in Bihar NDA and its wafer-thin majority in Assembly may lead to instability. After a close finish in the recently concluded Bihar legislative Assembly...

Leadership crisis hits AAP’s mission Punjab

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the principal opposition party in Punjab, is facing the problem of a weak state leadership to take...

Deuba becoming PM again reflects Nepal’s power shift

‘Stronger democratization process as institutions like the judiciary won’t tolerate leaders like Oli misusing Constitution for power’. New Delhi: After a period of turmoil in...

R&AW continues to be secretive unlike its global intelligence counterparts

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Will Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena have an impact in Andhra Pradesh?

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