Rajeev Deshpande

Severely high temperatures across northern and eastern India extract a great human cost and reinforce the need to reset urban planning

As BJP takes stock of its electoral performance, the focus shifts to the selection of the next party president and toning up organisational functioning

Rahul Gandhi has led Congress out of the doldrums. Can the party sustain its new momentum?

Modi may set aside BJP’s more contentious agendas but he is unlikely to be overcautious

Local factors undo BJP as party falls well short of majority; NDA allies JD(U) and TDP do well; shock defeats for CMs Naveen Patnaik and Jagan Mohan Reddy

BJP has the edge on BJD in Odisha’s Lok Sabha seats while the Assembly election is a closer contest than expected, reports

After a successful career in medicine, Dr Jitendra Singh has been Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) since the inception of the Modi government in 2014. He talks to Rajeev Deshpande about elections in Jammu & Kashmir and the electoral narratives as polling for the 18th Lok Sabha concludes

Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office speaks to Open in an exclusive interview