Tippler’s tricks  One of the provisions of the draconian prohibition law in Bihar allows the authorities to seal off premises where people are caught drinking. The rich may not care ...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU on Thursday seemed unconvinced by the BJP’s condemnation of its cultural cell national convener Daya Prakash Sinha’s purported insult of Asoka the G...

Footnote The BJP’s outreach to Delhi’s slum dwellers ahead of the upcoming municipal polls took an embarrassing turn this week. A photograph of the Tamil author, Perumal Murugan, was feat...

Footnote Just when he may have expected applause for his handling of Covid-19, the Karnataka health minister, K Sudhakar, was criticized at a cabinet meeting for usurping major projects, including a ...

The effort to take the Trinamul Congress footprint beyond Bengal is a project minted by Mamata Banerjee’s political strategist Prashant Kishor. The central assumption of the strategy is that th...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday welcomed a current and a former Congress politician and an ex-Janata Dal United leader into the Trinamul fold in an apparent effort to emerge as the principal challenger to ...

Footnote The former Karnataka CM, HD Kumaraswamy, has lately been training his guns on a ‘senior Congress leader’ — possibly the leader of the Opposition, PC Siddaramaiah — fo...

Footnote Covid-19 restrictions were cited to keep some prominent people away from the BJP’s national executive committee meeting in Delhi last week. Among them was the former cabinet minister, ...

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday vowed to conduct a full review of the implementation of prohibition in the state and fix the responsibility of government officials in compromising the ban after ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called a meeting with his ministerial colleagues to figure out how to tighten the state's liquor ban policy. The move comes after over 40 people died due to d...