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Poonam Sharma The recent electoral verdicts in the majority states are not just political victories but a tectonic shift of great significance in India’s socio-political fabric. The BJP's rise to power, built on decades of relentless…

Kerala: UDF leads with 85 seats, LDF follows with 49, BJP/NDA lags behind with only 3. Tamil Nadu: AIADMK secures 76 seats, DMK holds 54, TVK impressively gathers 103, and others remain minor players. Assam: BJP dominates with 98…

Poonam Sharma From Rebellion to Rule Few political stories in independent India are as dramatic as the meteoric rise and subsequent transformation of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. Emerging from a crucible of…

Poonam Sharma Late-Night Blaze Triggers Political Explosion in Bengal West Bengal politics has been rocked by sensational allegations after reports emerged that large quantities of company papers and confidential files were allegedly set…

Poonam Sharma Once again a deeply disturbing case from Chhattisgarh has brought to the fore the dangerous confluence of blind faith, illegal religious conversion and exploitative practices of healing. The death of a young woman Yogita…

Poonam Sharma Great Nicobar Project: Politics of Opposition, Security and Infrastructure India’s proposed Great Nicobar Project is no ordinary infrastructure announcement. It is one of the biggest strategic projects undertaken by the…

Poonam Sharma The last few days in West Bengal have exposed a crisis not only of politics but of faith — a faith that is supposed to bind a leader to the Constitution and to the institutions that uphold our democracy. Mamata Banerjee, the…

Poonam Sharma During the ongoing process of verification and digitisation of Waqf properties, In UP  Deoria district administration has cancelled registration of 205 Waqf Board properties including 165 graveyards in a major administrative…

Poonam Sharma In April 2009, inside the US State Department, the mood seemed warm, strategic and hopeful. Back then, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiled for the cameras with Mutassim Gaddafi, as the two countries projected an image…

Poonam Sharma As Tamil Nadu moves towards the results of its seventeenth legislative assembly elections, all eyes are on an age-old battle between the Dravidian giants and a persistent challenger — the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While…