Sravasti Dasgupta

Opposition parties said that the Union government was deliberately making such recruitments through lateral hires to keep out SCs, STs and OBCs and that it was systematically attacking reservations enshrined in the constitution.

The visit has sparked concerns about whether the heads of the two arms of government — the executive and the judiciary — should be seen attending a private religious function together in public gaze.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera asked whether Modi was aware of Buch investing in Chinese firms amid geopolitical tensions with the country.

While the Congress manifesto includes seven guarantees, the BJP’s consists of 20 guarantees.

The high-level committee report on ‘one nation, one election’ approved by the cabinet states that of the 12 election commissioners consulted, only one disapproved of the exercise.

Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala, who is eyeing the chief minister's post in Haryana, has been rigorously campaigning for his son Aditya.

The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by M.K. Venu, founding editor at The Wire and senior journalist Maya Mirchandani.

A close read of the data from these polls and those of earlier ones unfurls interesting trends and a glimpse of which way voters are leaning now.

The activist's lawyer told the court that his bail plea in the HC "was adjourned 64 times, with the petitioner seeking time on eight postings."

'The government made the land available to Adani at a throwaway price. Why did that happen?'