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Sunetra Choudhury is the National Political Editor of the Hindustan Times. With over two decades of experience in print and television, she has authored Black Warrant (Roli,2019), Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India’s Most Famous (Roli,2017) and Braking News (Hachette, 2010). Sunetra is the recipient of the Red Ink award in journalism in 2016 and Mary Morgan Hewett award in 2018.

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HT interview: History has many IFS officers in politics, says Taranjit Singh Sandhu

Sandhu worked closely with PM Minister Narendra Modi during New Delhi’s negotiations with Washington to seal the $3 billion predator drones deal

Former Indian Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu joins the BJP in the presence of party general secretaries Vinod Tawde and Tarun Chugh at BJP headquarters in New Delhi on March19. Sandhu was the 28th Ambassador of India to the US. (ANI.)
Published on Mar 22, 2024 07:06 PM IST

Another Jat leader exits NDA but BJP confident of retaining the vote base

There are other Jat leaders who haven’t quit but aren’t feeling particularly happy.

Churu MP Rahul Kaswan joined Congress in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge at Kharge's residence in New Delhi(Hindustan Times)
Updated on Mar 13, 2024 01:14 AM IST
By, New Delhi

Goel’s resignation wasn’t prompted by events during ECI’s Bengal visit: Officials

Opposition leaders, including West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, have attributed Goel’s resignation on Saturday to differences over the election schedule in West Bengal

Election commissioner Arun Goel resigned on Saturday. (PTI)
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 01:18 PM IST

Arun Goel steps down as election commissioner weeks before Lok Sabha polls

Goel’s term was till November 2027, and he was scheduled to become the chief election commissioner (CEC) in 2025

Arun Goel’s term was till November 2027 (Twitter Photo)
Updated on Mar 10, 2024 10:32 AM IST

Seat-sharing talks: BJP to get larger share in Lok Sabha polls, BJD for assembly

The return of the BJD to the NDA fold will bolster the latter’s quest for 400+ seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik during a meeting in New Delhi. (PTI/File)
Published on Mar 08, 2024 05:08 AM IST

Farmers’ protest: Mann’s inclusion in negotiating panel irks Punjab BJP

On Tuesday, Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar laid the blame for the failure of the latest round of talks between farmers and the government at the door of state chief minister Bhagwant Mann, whose inclusion in the panel meeting farmers surprised many people.

Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann. (AAP Punjab/X)
Updated on Feb 21, 2024 07:34 AM IST
By, New Delhi

BJP picks 14 names for Rajya Sabha elections

The BJP has released its list of candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, including former Congress minister RPN Singh and leaders from various states. Notably, sitting ministers are absent from the list. The elections are unlikely to change the balance of power in the House.

In Uttar Pradesh, one of the candidate is former Congress leader RPN Singh, a three-term OBC (Sainthwar) lawmaker from Padrauna who made a political switch to BJP in 2022. (HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 06:18 AM IST
By, New Delhi

After a storied career, ex-PM Manmohan Singh likely to retire from public life

Singh’s only public appearance this year was for his daughter’s book launch at the India International Centre in January, where he was present for an hour or so

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh. (AFP File Photo)
Updated on Feb 09, 2024 09:37 AM IST
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Modi to embark on tour across states before Lok Sabha polls

The PM’s travels actually began over the weekend, with Odisha and Assam, and he will be travelling for at least 15 days this month, including a visit to the UAE

Prime Minister Narendra Modi(PTI)
Updated on Feb 07, 2024 12:55 AM IST
By, New Delhi

Nitish Kumar inches closer to exiting Bihar alliance; BJP ready

If Nitish Kumar makes the switch, as rumoured, it will be the fourth such move in the past decade and the second this term

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav during a Republic Day event at Gandhi Maidan in Patna. (Santosh Kumar/HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 27, 2024 05:30 AM IST
By, , New Delhi/patna

Playing it forward: R Sukumar interviews jazz legend Herbie Hancock

He's unfazed by the potential of AI. Once an engineering student, he has a soft spot for technology. His focus now, he says, is to pass the baton he was handed.

At the American Center, New Delhi. ‘I was young once, and I made mistakes. But musicians didn’t just put me (down); they showed me how it was done. So now it’s my turn to be the kind of grandfather of the music,’ he says. (HT Photo: Paroma Mukherjee)
Updated on Jan 19, 2024 10:49 PM IST

Kharge to head INDIA bloc, Nitish offered convener role

The constituents of the INDIA bloc have accepted Mallikarjun Kharge as chairperson of the opposition grouping, but are divided over the appointment of Nitish Kumar as convener. Mamata Banerjee's opposition to Kumar's candidature has caused tensions within the alliance.

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Updated on Jan 14, 2024 05:14 AM IST
By, New Delhi

Buzz grows over Shringla entering Lok Sabha election fray from Darjeeling

The state Bharatiya Janata Party unit supports the move, while current BJP candidate Raju Bista is open to competition.

Posters featuring Harsh Vardhan Shringla have emerged all over Darjeeling. (HT)
Updated on Jan 03, 2024 04:17 AM IST

Bajrang turned down offer to join Congress to contest Raj elections

Bajrang is from Jhajjar, Haryana, and though he has no direct link with Rajasthan, he is seen as a national icon after his exploits on the mat

Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia (PTI)
Updated on Dec 23, 2023 06:48 AM IST

Poll body to revamp policy holding parties accountable for social media post

In the last bout of assembly elections, the poll body issued show cause notices to Delhi BJP president and Arvind Kejriwal over their posts.

HT has learnt that the reason those notices weren’t acted upon is that ECI concluded there was a lacuna in the current policy about holding political parties accountable for social media activity (REUTERS)
Updated on Dec 21, 2023 04:28 AM IST

Tracking the rise: From ABVP activists to CMs, BJP's picks have come far

Selected for the top job in Rajasthan on Tuesday, Bhajan Lal Sharma served in the Bharatpur unit of the ABVP from 1990 to 1996

Amit Shah’s successor as party president JP Nadda was an ABVP national secretary while key strategist and education minister Dharmendra Pradhan was national secretary (HT Photo)
Updated on Dec 13, 2023 07:07 AM IST

BJP banked on fresh faces to win heartland state polls

The party emerged victorious in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, trouncing the Congress.

While the BJP was able to wrest power from the Congress by using new faces in Chhattisgarh, in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, the party fielded just 40 fresh candidates in the 230 seat assembly (Arun Sharma/HT)
Updated on Dec 09, 2023 06:14 AM IST
By, New Delhi

‘Pranab knew he wouldn’t become PM,’ daughter’s book on ex-Prez

The new book by Sharmishtha Mukherjee explores her father, former President Pranab Mukherjee’s political journey from a lawmaker to country's top brass

Written by his daughter Sharmishtha Mukherjee and titled Pranab, My Father, the book draws on his diaries and conversations with his daughter. (HT Archive)
Updated on Dec 07, 2023 08:47 AM IST

Unsavoury words were used against me... MP results have silenced them: Scindia

Jyotiraditya Scindia whose move to BJP in 2020 saw it return to power after losing the 2018 elections, spoke to HT on stunning performance in MP and road ahead.

Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in Bhopal on November 9. (PTI)
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 02:28 AM IST

BJP plans OBC survey to blunt Opposition’s caste census campaign

The BJP has changed its strategy – from avoiding the topic altogether, to an endorsement of the survey

The BJP's central election committee decided on November 1 that the party would announce an Other Backward Classes (OBC) survey(PTI)
Updated on Nov 09, 2023 01:14 PM IST
By, New Delhi

HT Interview: By Dec 2024, you will have the entire temple, says Nripendra Misra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22, with the first phase of construction to be completed by then.

Nripendra Misra (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Oct 31, 2023 07:54 AM IST

What’s at stake for Congress: Polls put caste census demand, INDIA to test

The issue has been a rallying cry for the party, with Rahul Gandhi making it his single-point agenda at all his press conferences and public speeches

The assembly elections may be the first indicator of whether the Congress’s gambit of taking up the issue of the caste census. (File photo)
Updated on Oct 10, 2023 09:03 AM IST

Bihar caste survey: Opposition sees scope for new narrative, poll dividends

With Bihar releasing headline numbers of the caste survey on Monday, the movement appears to have acquired more momentum

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar demanded a caste survey as early as 2021 (HT)
Updated on Oct 03, 2023 08:14 AM IST
By, New Delhi

It will not be easy to draft Constitution today: Nariman in book

It won’t be easy to draft a new Constitution for India today, one of India’s most respected jurists Fali Nariman writes in his new book “ You Must Know Your Constitution”.

Jurist Fali Nariman’s comments come at a time when some right wing intellectuals have raised questions about the current Constitution, and asked whether its basic structure can be changed. (PTI)
Updated on Sep 30, 2023 07:06 AM IST
By, New Delhi

HT Interview: If Oppn fights together, we are going to succeed, says Kharge

The 81-year-old is feeling quietly confident about the upcoming five state assembly polls

Mallikarjun Kharge (PTI)(HT_PRINT)
Updated on Sep 16, 2023 07:19 AM IST

INDIA group will edge BJP out in ’24: Kharge

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge believes that the INDIA alliance will succeed in the upcoming elections, citing voting patterns and data. He also dismissed controversy over his absence from a recent G20 dinner, stating that he is of cabinet rank and not comparable to BJP party chief JP Nadda. Kharge also accused the BJP of using the upcoming special session of Parliament as a campaign tool. He expressed confidence in the alliance's unity and said that even if seat-sharing talks are 90% successful, the alliance will have an edge over the BJP. Kharge refused to comment on the topic of sanatana dharma.

Mallikarjun Kharge (PTI)
Updated on Sep 15, 2023 11:58 PM IST

Canada PM Justin Trudeau still stuck in India after plane glitch

The plane involved in the current debacle is a CC-150 Polaris, one of several modified Airbus A310-300 the Canadian armed forces uses for its VIPs.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stuck in India owing to plane glitch. (AFP)
Updated on Sep 12, 2023 08:06 AM IST

HT interview: Felt G20 consensus won’t be reached multiple times, says Kant

The Indian G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant was exhausted and relieved at having achieved what was considered impossible earlier last week -- a joint declaration.

G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant. (ANI)
Updated on Sep 11, 2023 06:55 AM IST
By, New Delhi:

Rohini Commission may recommend key changes to OBC quota policy

The report, which is more than 1,000-pages long, is divided in two parts.

Justice G Rohini Commission’s report , which is more than 1,000-page long, is divided in two parts -- the first deals with how the OBC quota should be allocated; and the second is an updated list of all 2,633 OBC castes across the country. (HT Archives)
Updated on Sep 02, 2023 08:04 AM IST

BJP grapples with CM-face question on Rajasthan poll terrain

Bharatiya Janata Party’s parivartan yatras will mark the official launch of the election campaign in Rajasthan.

The upcoming assembly elections will be the first one in 20 years where Vasundhara Raje is not the party’s chief ministerial face (Sanjib Kumar Dutta)
Updated on Aug 27, 2023 02:59 AM IST
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