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The Congress party decided to support the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in opposing the Delhi Ordinance Bill in Parliament. Will the AAP-Congress alliance work in Delhi and Punjab?

A recent report unwinds possible war scenarios involving Russia and China in the aftermath of the ongoing Ukraine war and how the United States is gradually losing its foothold as a once insurmountable defence power. 

The AAP and Congress, ahead of the Opposition meeting in Bengaluru, decided to bury the hatchet as the latter confirmed that it would not support the Delhi ordinance.

Even if the electorate in Maharashtra deliver a sympathy vote to the beleaguered Sharad Pawar, the revolt of Ajit Pawar and other top NCP leaders has opened up the possibility of the BJP-led alliance to cross threshold vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Defections to help the BJP are not limited to Maharashtra. They have happened across states. Here’s the how and the why of a phenomenon that started in 2014, but merely mirroring what the Congress did when it was in power.

The circumstances of the 1978 rebellion were far different from the current split in the NCP. Though it is popularly believed Pawar backstabbed Vasantdada Patil, it is said Patil ditched the rebellion after his telephonic conversation with the late Indira Gandhi.

As Ajit Pawar and eight other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, all eyes are now on Sharad Pawar to see how he will react to a sordid defection drama in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) that he formed on June 10, 1999

A developing country like India should have feared the harsh impact of a recession of this magnitude. Surprisingly, reports predict that India has a 0% probability of recession in 2023.

PM Modi’s remarks have reignited the Uniform Civil Code debate. But what exactly is it? And can India have a UCC?

Two suspended Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) leaders - P Srinivas Reddy from Khammam district and Jupally Krishna Rao from Mahbubnagar district - joined hands with the Congress on June 26.

Of course, Vande Bharat is a showstopper but does the PM really have to do all the flagging offs? Why does he do it?

India Today's OSINT team analyses how the inbuilt features of Aadhaar and its linkage to multiple official sources lays bare a cluster of ongoing scams, and what can be done to assuage it. 

Fifteen Opposition parties on Friday resolved to fight the next Lok Sabha polls together to “dethrone the BJP” after an over four-hour-long meeting in Patna. The next meeting of the Opposition parties will be held in Shimla to chart the future course of action, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said at a joint press conference, flanked by leaders of the parties.

If the Aam Aadmi Party goes the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), led by K Chandrashekhar Rao, way, it will go alone to the polls, which will mean that Arvind Kejriwal will attack both Congress and the BJP and spread his organisational strength in different states. 

Bangladesh has a history of elections which are accompanied by violence and rulers upstaged by coups. With the 2024 general elections looming large over the country, it remains to be seen which side will come out victorious.