With 2024 just round the corner, Telangana offers a gateway to a larger role for whoever wins. It is important for BRS as the party has signalled national ambition, even effected a name-change. For the Congress, it would be the first state in recent memory the party would have resurrected itself in, after being smashed.

With 2024 just round the corner, Telangana offers a gateway to a larger role for whoever wins. It is important for BRS as the party has signalled national ambition, even effected a name-change. For the Congress, it would be the first state in recent memory the party would have resurrected itself in, after being smashed.

While the BRS and Congress are the main contenders, the BJP could well emerge as the kingmaker by eating into the anti-BRS vote.

Even as we inch closer to the polling date (November 30), pollsters are still not able to call the election given that there seems to be no discernible wave for or against the BRS, and likewise the Congress.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief will face strong candidates in the form of Eatala Rajendar in Gajwel and Revanth Reddy in Kamareddy. The Telangana chief minister's decision to contest two seats has sparked intense speculation.

If Jesus, the most well-known Palestinian Jew, were to be born today, he would have been born on the Palestinian side of the 700-km wall built by Israel, passing through Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. But for Christian Zionists, who present Jesus as a white man with blonde hair, facts matter little.  

The Wire looks at the PM’s several inauguration sprees which have been twinned with party campaigns for state elections, since the 2022 Gujarat polls. Who benefits when the PM inaugurates a road bypass or does a ‘griha pravesh’ timed with polls in the area?

The college probe panel also noted that "there is no specific evidence of direct caste-based discrimination". Bahujan students, however, raised doubts over the report and investigation.

In its latest report 'Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting the Course', the World Bank flagged concerns over how the lack of official data on poverty from India affects the world in drawing up global poverty estimates.

The RSS chief said "religion-based imbalance" in population and "forced conversions" were breaking the country apart. However, both his claims are not grounded in reality. 

The BJP MLA from Telangana has had a meteoric rise in politics from a small-time businessman to a two-term legislator of one of Hyderabad's most underdeveloped areas.

In the din of outlandish claims made by Hindutva outfits about Indian Christians, the abject socioeconomic realities of the community get drowned out.

Violence in Amalapuram on May 24 brought to the fore the deep-seated casteism of the region and 'upper' caste members' fears over Dalit assertion.

Granting bail to Delhi University professor Ratan Lal, arrested for his comments on the Gyanvapi Mosque case, judge Siddhartha Malik offered a fine lesson on free speech.

The YSR Congress government has made it clear that the repeal of laws does not necessarily mean moving away from its stated position of having multiple capitals.