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1 week 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
At an event organised in her constituency, Shalimar Bagh, to felicitate her after the results of the Delhi Assembly election were announced on February 8, Rekha Gupta, a newly elected MLA, expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the gathering for their support and promised to address all their concerns. Speaking in a lighthearted manner, Gupta said that with so much work to do and limited time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have to make her the Chief Minister (CM).
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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Soni Mishra
Sunder Nagri, a slum located on the outskirts of Delhi and bordering Uttar Pradesh, was where Arvind Kejriwal made the transition from a civil servant to a transparency activist over two decades ago. He had launched his NGO Parivartan in the area to address the grievances of the people with regard to civic amenities and welfare schemes by using the RTI Act. Kejriwal left a deep imprint on the locality.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Soni Mishra |Vaishna Roy
On the ground in Campbell Bay, the government’s promise to remake Great Nicobar into the Indian equivalent of Singapore, Hong Kong, or Macau is starting to feel imminent. Not only has a steady stream of Central government bureaucrats and Ministers been flocking to Great Nicobar, at least two firms have begun preparatory work on the project, which involves building a transshipment terminal and a township to support it on the island.
