Anant Gupta

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On April 8, the Supreme Court decided in favour of the Tamil Nadu government in its case against Governor RN Ravi’s failure to sign bills into law. The court ruling, which stipulates time limits for governors to act on the bills sent to them, has become the latest flashpoint in the growing rancour between the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre and opposition-ruled state governments.

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“Today is April 2, a historic day,” Raja Ram Singh noted as he rose to weigh in on the Modi government’s Waqf (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. “America’s tariffs will be announced today.

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For over two decades, a school teacher saw her students’ interest in history dwindle as their fascination for science and technology grew. Eventually, she made peace with children calling her subject “drab”. So, when Chhaava, Bollywood’s latest offering of dramatised Hindutva history, released in theatres across the country on February 14, she was caught off guard by their enthusiastic reaction to it.

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On March 23, Shiv Sainiks belonging to the party’s Eknath Shinde faction smashed equipment and tossed around chairs in a comedy venue in Mumbai’s Khar that had hosted at show at which stand-up comic Kunal Kamra made jokes about their leader. But they could not stop the jokes going around on social media.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s campaign against the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies is increasingly drawing support from parties across the political spectrum in South India. But it is also making his allies in the Hindi belt uncomfortable. Delimitation refers to the process of redrawing the boundaries of constituencies to reflect the latest population numbers. But in India, delimitation has not been conducted at the national level since 1976.