Sreenivasan Jain With Inputs From Manas Singh

While the BJP (and its famed IT cell) have always strenuously denied the suggestion that its social media dominance is powered by paid supporters, increasingly, evidence is mounting of a party - and government - taking recourse to cut-and-paste tweets and manufactured trends to firefight crises and counter its critics.

Over the past three days, raids on the headquarters of Dera Sacha Sauda, the base of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, have underscored his extravagant lifestyle - buildings shaped like the Seven Wonders, luxury interiors and a fleet of heavily modified cars.

The violence has uncovered the BJP's dilemma - while Rajputs constitute a loyal base, the party cannot afford to antagonise Dalits, whose increasing support played a key role in delivering a massive mandate to the party.

Lalu Yadav's son, Tejashwi Yadav, appears to have the sort of good luck for which most entrepreneurs seek astrological intervention. A series of deals starting with 2008 - when Lalu was union Railways Minister - have climaxed with Tejashwi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, becoming part owner of companies that own valuable real estate. It is through...

Soon after the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) issued a notification making Aadhaar card mandatory for accessing mid-day meals, it released data claiming that thanks to Aadhar, four lakh 'ghost' or duplicate students enrolled with the state education department had been detected.

Indian officials are scrambling to respond to the latest setback in their attempts to bring to justice Lalit Modi, the fallen cricket mogul wanted for a raft of corruption charges.

Much is made of funds pouring in to promote Saudi-style Islam in India (known as Salafism or Wahhabism), and of its influence, but what is the ground reality?

From time to time, the Indian government has warned of the dangers of the rise of puritanical, Saudi-style Islam in India, most recently, during the unrest in Kashmir, when it warned it will not allow a 'Wahhabi theocracy' to take root in the Valley.

The company - IVRCL Group - in charge of building the flyover in Kolkata which collapsed on Thursday causing the deaths of 24 people - has claimed the disaster was an "Act of God".

Frustrated by their attempts to recover close to a billion dollars in debt from Vijay Mallya, a consortium of banks have asked him to declare his assets.

Going by their public statements, the only substantial Vijay Mallya assets that banks appear to have in their possession are Kingfisher's corporate headquarters in Mumbai and an assortment of luxury toys like yachts and private jets.

Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, has refuted newspaper reports linking him to a chain of multi-crore overseas investments.

Bhola Singh, a BJP parliamentarian from Bihar, has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for the party's massive defeat in the assembly elections in the state, saying Mr Shah must explain or step down.

In a major blow to the National Investigating Agency's Ajmer blast trial, 13 crucial prosecution witnesses have now turned hostile and gone back on their testimonies.

A loss-making firm that had negligible assets was considered so valuable by cricket tycoon Lalit Modi that he paid 9,600 times the price of the company's shares.

While the BJP (and its famed IT cell) have always strenuously denied the suggestion that its social media dominance is powered by paid supporters, increasingly, evidence is mounting of a party - and government - taking recourse to cut-and-paste tweets and manufactured trends to firefight crises and counter its critics.

Over the past three days, raids on the headquarters of Dera Sacha Sauda, the base of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, have underscored his extravagant lifestyle - buildings shaped like the Seven Wonders, luxury interiors and a fleet of heavily modified cars.

The violence has uncovered the BJP's dilemma - while Rajputs constitute a loyal base, the party cannot afford to antagonise Dalits, whose increasing support played a key role in delivering a massive mandate to the party.

Lalu Yadav's son, Tejashwi Yadav, appears to have the sort of good luck for which most entrepreneurs seek astrological intervention. A series of deals starting with 2008 - when Lalu was union Railways Minister - have climaxed with Tejashwi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, becoming part owner of companies that own valuable real estate. It is through...

Soon after the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) issued a notification making Aadhaar card mandatory for accessing mid-day meals, it released data claiming that thanks to Aadhar, four lakh 'ghost' or duplicate students enrolled with the state education department had been detected.

Indian officials are scrambling to respond to the latest setback in their attempts to bring to justice Lalit Modi, the fallen cricket mogul wanted for a raft of corruption charges.

Much is made of funds pouring in to promote Saudi-style Islam in India (known as Salafism or Wahhabism), and of its influence, but what is the ground reality?

From time to time, the Indian government has warned of the dangers of the rise of puritanical, Saudi-style Islam in India, most recently, during the unrest in Kashmir, when it warned it will not allow a 'Wahhabi theocracy' to take root in the Valley.

The company - IVRCL Group - in charge of building the flyover in Kolkata which collapsed on Thursday causing the deaths of 24 people - has claimed the disaster was an "Act of God".

Frustrated by their attempts to recover close to a billion dollars in debt from Vijay Mallya, a consortium of banks have asked him to declare his assets.

Going by their public statements, the only substantial Vijay Mallya assets that banks appear to have in their possession are Kingfisher's corporate headquarters in Mumbai and an assortment of luxury toys like yachts and private jets.

Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance minister P Chidambaram, has refuted newspaper reports linking him to a chain of multi-crore overseas investments.

Bhola Singh, a BJP parliamentarian from Bihar, has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for the party's massive defeat in the assembly elections in the state, saying Mr Shah must explain or step down.

In a major blow to the National Investigating Agency's Ajmer blast trial, 13 crucial prosecution witnesses have now turned hostile and gone back on their testimonies.

A loss-making firm that had negligible assets was considered so valuable by cricket tycoon Lalit Modi that he paid 9,600 times the price of the company's shares.