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.

News Reports

Himachal Pradesh: Inspired by renaming of ‘Prayagraj’, state government wants to restore name of Shimla to ‘Shyamala’

OpIndia Staff -
Reportedly, the Britishers changed the name of the city from 'Shyamala' to Shimla, as they found it difficult pronounce the former name.
News Reports

Sabarimala: HMO had warned Kerala govt about Left Wing Extremist groups instigating violence

Jhankar Mohta -
Questions were raised whether the Communist government of Kerala was more than happy to allow Hindu religious sentiments to be hurt
News Reports

In its third election ever, Bhutan elects a third party, Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) party to form government

Raju Das -
DNT party president Dr Lotay Tshering will become the third Prime Minister of Bhutan
News Reports

Bihar: Controversy erupts as posters depicting Tejashwi Yadav as ‘Ram’ and Nitish as ‘Ravan’ surface

Jhankar Mohta -
The JD(U) was quick to remind the RJD that it was Nitish Kumar’s face which helped them increase their tally from 22 to 80 in the 2015 assembly elections
Fact-Check

Congress lies blatantly after deleting Facebook ad of ‘Modi hatao desh bachao’ which was promoted in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff -
This is not the first that time that Congress or its functionaries have brazened out their embarrassing posts after silently deleting them
News Reports

Karnataka: Congress’ DK Shivakumar confesses it was a mistake to divide Hindus by declaring Lingayat a separate religion

OpIndia Staff -
The Congress government headed by Siddaramaiah had recommended for a separate religion tag for 'Lingayat'
News Reports

Fresh notice of eviction served on Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund over Teen Murti Bhavan offices

OpIndia Staff -
JNMF had rejected the claims of unauthorised occupation.
News Reports

After two Congress MLA’s join BJP, party unit chief claims more Congress MLAs willing to crossover

OpIndia Staff -
Such defections have considerably helped the BJP to grow and yank dominance in several states
News Reports

Madhya Pradesh: BJP files complaint against Kamal Nath for posting fake photo ahead of polls

OpIndia Staff -
Kamal Nath had used an unrelated fake image of a Bangladeshi citizen to criticise the Madhya Pradesh government led by the BJP.
News Reports

Rift within Congress: Party distances itself from Gujarat Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor, does not invite him for an event in Bihar

OpIndia Staff -
The celebration is seen as an attempt by the Congress to win back a section of the upper castes who have recently gravitated towards the BJP
1...1,7191,7201,721...1,784Page 1,720 of 1,784

Latest News

Recently Popular