Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP Naramalli Sivaprasad dressed as Narad Muni stages a protest demanding special status for the state of Andhra Pradesh during the budget session, at Parli...
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Congress President Rahul Gandhi arrives at Sharadamba Temple, Sringeri Mutt, during his visit to Chikmagalur, in Karnataka.
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Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of Navjot Singh Sidhu, interacts with media persons after resigning from the primary membership of the BJP in Amritsar.
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Textiles Minister Smriti Zubin Irani distributing sweets to Army jawans while celebrating "Raksha Bhandan” with them at Siachen base camp.
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UP Cabinet Minister Azam Khan being garlanded by his supporters during the Jashn-e-Azadi Mushayara organised on his birthday in New Delhi.
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Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia addresses the press at Delhi Secretariat.
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Textiles Minister Simiriti Irani celebrating Teej festival with women in New Delhi.
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AAP MLA Amanatulaah Khan was denied bail todayn in an alleged case of misbehaviour with a woman in Delhi. The woman had alleged while she was returning from the legislator's reside...
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju looks on as Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma speaks during a press conference in New Delhi.
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Delhi Chief Minister pictured wearing a flower tiara in what seemed like a real life Snapchat avatar in Goa.
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Police detains Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia at Tughlaq Road Police Station during AAP MLAs' march towards Prime Minister's residence to protest against the arrest of ...
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Police detains Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and other AAP MLAs at Tughlaq Road Police Station during their march towards Prime Minister's residence to protest against...
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Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar takes a dip in the river Ganga at the Sangam, in Allahabad.
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Absconding JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi surrenders at a court in Gaya, Bihar.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wears a Mysore Peta presented to him by AAP members during a public rally against the Rule 8 of Motor Vehicle Act that mandates eighth class pa...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa speaks while replying to the debate on the Governor's address, at the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
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CPIM MLAs and Congress MLAs engaged in a scuffle during zero hour of the assembly in Agartala, Tripura.
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Union Minister of Human Resources Development Smriti Zubin Irani is felicitated during BJP's public meeting in Golaghat, Assam.
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his 63rd birthday at Lodhi Garden, in New Delhi.
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Former Higher Education Minister and VYAPAM Scam accused Laxmikant Sharma being greeted by his supporters while coming out from Central Jail after granted bail by High Court, in Bh...
The junior minister in the HRD Ministry denounced those who attacked him over his comments and said "it's not scientific temper to condemn the point of view of another person".
The Chief Minister also ordered her suspension, after she allegedly used abusive language, while seeking her transfer from a remote location where she had been working for 25 years.
Singhal had also asked Hindu families in his constituency to not allow Muslims to enter their homes as they are "habitually involved in all kinds of crimes".
Hostile speeches and abusive remarks, it is now pervasively believed, can make or break electoral verdicts. Whenever rival politicians indulge in a war of words, the public avidly tallies who ‘won’ or ‘lost’ each round.
Politicians often turn a blind eye to police lawlessness so that cops are beholden enough to do their bidding. Policing suffers the most due to this symbiosis.
From syncretic socialist to outright authoritarian, Indira Gandhi’s political journey changed many courses of the peninsula. She was born in 1917, a hundred years ago.