Daily Brief: How strident Hindutva dented BJP and allies in the North East, and more

How strident Hindutva dented BJP and allies in the North East

Observers say NDA’s footprint has shrunk because of voters’ discomfort with anti-Christian policies.

Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur among 37 ministers dropped from Modi Cabinet

Nineteen ministers from the outgoing Cabinet, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nirmala Sitharaman, were retained.

Adani, Ambani attend oath ceremony, Congress recalls Modi’s remarks about black money

Party leader Jairam Ramesh recounted that Modi had asked at an election rally if the Congress had received tempos full of black money from the indu...

The BJP’s paradoxical defeat in Faizabad

The party’s defeat is neither a rejection of the Ram temple nor the negation of Hindutva but was partly enabled by the bulldozer-led in Ayodhya

VK Pandian, aide of Naveen Patnaik, quits politics after BJD’s Odisha polls loss

Pandian said he was ‘sorry’ if the election campaign narrative against him ‘had a part to play’ in Biju Janata Dal’s loss.

A city of many dreams: How Patrick Geddes brought a human touch to urban planning in India

The Scotsman drew from the natural, social and the scientific to rejuvenate cities with minimal destruction – an approach that was far ahead of his time.

Pakistan on the brink of food insecurity following climate change effects, flawed policies

The import of the country’s staple, wheat, following two years of floods could set off a downward a spiral in the recovering agricultural sector.

This book brings oral testimonies of women who survived the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in Delhi

An excerpt from ‘The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women’, by Sanam Sutirath Wazir.

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