Politics

News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

Crime

Illegal telephone exchange case: Special CBI Court frames charges against Maran brothers and five others

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2019

The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed the plea of former Union telecom minister Dayanadhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and five others against the Madras High Court order setting aside their discharge in the case.

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‘Congress is using its lawyers to delay the Ram Mandir case’: Amit Shah in Kanpur

OpIndia Staff - 30 January, 2019

Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah today addressed the booth-level presidents of Kanpur-Bundelkhand and Avadh region at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in Booth Adbyaksh Sammelan

News Reports

Tickets for sale: AIADMK tells party leaders to pay Rs. 25,000 as ‘application fees’ if they want to contest 2019 Lok Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff - 30 January, 2019

All 40 constituencies (39 Tamil Nadu and 1 Puducherry) have been listed for sending applications

Editor's picks

Shashi Tharoor’s tweet denigrating the Kumbh ought to make us all wary

K Bhattacharjee - 30 January, 2019

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has decided to participate in the propaganda against Kumbh

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‘Stooping so low as to make a false statement raises questions about purpose of your visit’, Manohar Parrikar to Rahul Gandhi in a scathing...

OpIndia Staff - 30 January, 2019

Manohar Parikar says Rafale was not discussed when Rahul Gandhi met him on January 29

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QNet: All you need to know about the scam, the company’s association with Times Group and bonhomie with Congress leaders

K Bhattacharjee - 30 January, 2019

QNet, formerly known as QuestNet, GoldQuest and QI Limited, is a Hong Kong-based multi-level marketing (MLM) company founded in 1998 by Vijay Eswaran and owned by the QI Group

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Leave Manohar Parrikar alone, Rahul Gandhi

Nirwa Mehta - 30 January, 2019

When the destruction of a man is inevitable, the conscience of the man is the first to die.

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‘Without my integrity, my profession would be over’: Vivek Doval records statement in defamation case against Caravan and Jairam Ramesh

OpIndia Staff - 30 January, 2019

Vivek Doval appearing before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal on Tuesday said that the allegations put forward by the magazine Caravan in its article titled 'The D-Company' were completely baseless and false.

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