When India’s financial watchdog dared to expose the coal scam’s rot, it was met not with rebuttals but with a stinking room, vanished files, and a full-blown campaign to suffocate accountability.
The 2025 Bihar Assembly election, expected later this year, promises to be among the most closely watched political contests in India. With a 7.42 crore electorate, a complex caste landscape, and shifting alliances, Bihar exemplifies the dynamics of Indian democracy.
Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi portrays Yogi Adityanath’s transformative journey, blending spirituality with politics to celebrate leadership rooted in faith and service.
At a time when identity politics in the Northeast is repeatedly stirred for partisan gains, Sarma’s words offered a counter-narrative of Hindu civilizational unity, rejecting the manufactured binary of Assamese versus Bengali.
For months, Chinese restrictions on exports of key equipment and raw materials had threatened India’s infrastructure and industrial plans. Now, after Wang’s visit, Beijing has promised to resume supplies of tunnel boring machines critical for metro and highway projects, lift curbs on rare earth magnets indispensable for electric vehicles and renewable energy, and restart exports of speciality fertilisers essential for Indian agriculture.
The BJP, meanwhile, is framing the issue differently, that true Bengali pride lies in protecting the culture from demographic invasion, not in sheltering illegal immigrants.