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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
A month before the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha election were to be announced—and while polling was still under way—the 18th Lok Sabha got its first member. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Surat, Gujarat, was declared elected unopposed after all other contenders withdrew or had their nominations rejected. Over 16.5 lakh voters in the constituency were thus denied the chance to cast their vote.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
If there is one question that has come to occupy the minds of political observers in Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram, it is this: Is Shashi Tharoor, the most articulate spokesperson of the Indian National Congress, being edged out of the party? Or is he maneuvering to force the party leadership’s hand?
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
At the farewell function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for the outgoing Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna on May 13, 2025, Justice B.R. Gavai, who has succeeded him to the post, took to poetry to describe his predecessor’s six-month term at the helm. He quoted the poet Dushyant Kumar: “Sirf hungama khada karna mera maksad nahi/Meri koshish hai ki ye surat badalni chahiye” (My aim is not to create an upheaval/My effort is to ensure that the situation changes).
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
The caste census is a long-pending exercise, and the Narendra Modi government would have carried out a caste count along with the census in 2021 itself had COVID not struck, says K. Laxman, national president of the BJP’s OBC Morcha.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
It was after a gap of 13 years that Narendra Modi visited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Smruti Mandir in Nagpur on March 30—his first visit as Prime Minister. He visited the Reshimbagh complex on September 16, 2012, to pay tribute to former RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan. His last visit to the RSS headquarters in Nagpur’s Mahal area was on July 16, 2013, when he was the BJP’s prime ministerial face for the Lok Sabha election that was held the following year.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
Five years after the communal riots in the national capital, Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra, 44, finds himself in a tight spot due to a series of court setbacks regarding alleged hate speeches he made, which reportedly triggered violence.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
The topic of delimitation has turned into a South vs North debate, with most of the States in south India expected to lose seats in a demography-based delimitation exercise. The southern States strongly oppose any redrawing of Lok Sabha constituency boundaries solely on the basis of current population figures as it would not only reduce their political representation at the national level but also amount to penalising them for adhering to the national policy of population control.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to link voter ID with Aadhaar in a bid to clean up voter lists. The move comes in the wake of increasing doubts about the sanctity of electoral rolls. Consultations between the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and technical experts of the commission will soon begin in that direction, the ECI has said.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
The BJP government in Delhi has, with much fanfare, approved its much-touted scheme to provide women financial assistance of Rs.2,500 per month. The Mahila Samriddhi Yojana, approved by the Delhi Cabinet on International Women’s Day (March 8), was among the main promises of the party in the recently concluded Assembly election.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
The Yamuna occupied centre stage in the campaigning during the recent Assembly election in Delhi. All the parties called attention to the extreme levels of pollution in the river, lamenting that the city’s lifeline had turned into a dark, toxic stream. They blamed each other for the problem, with each party making familiar promises to clean it. Historically, the Yamuna was never Delhi’s water line. Ironically, its condition began to worsen after it became the city’s source of drinking water.
