Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has set about shuffling the bureaucracy and implementing BJP’s poll pledges ahead of the Lok Sabha election
The demands made by Punjab’s agitating farmers call for nothing less than a total capitulation by the Union government
They are marching from Punjab hoping for another retreat by the Modi government. It may not happen this time
The Law Commission has affirmed that sedition is a necessary law that must be saved but with additional safeguards
When the local police tried to disperse the crowd, the ‘farmers’ resorted to violence and damaged government property
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The slashing of key subsidies in agriculture was long overdue and signals the government’s seriousness about economic revival
The Prime Minister’s security breach in Punjab highlights the increasingly extra-parliamentary nature of protest
The threat posed by identity politics to India’s toughest economic reform appears to have influenced the government in taking a decision in the national interest