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West Bengal to Maharashtra, party absorption threatens to disintegrate India’s opposition
West Bengal’s post-election drama is more consequential than the familiar story of Indian political defection. The developments unfolding around the Trinamool Congress after its defeat by the Bharatiya Janata Party in May’s Assembly elections point to a newer mechanism of power consolidation. The immediate facts remain fluid. On Tuesday, rebel Trinamool leader Ritabrata Banerjee claimed…
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‘Just 48 Days After Marriage’: Thane Woman Dies By Suicide, Doctor Husband Installed CCTV To Track Her Each Move; 3 Booked For Harassment
Thane: Forty-eight days after her wedding, a 26-year-old woman from Thane’s Ambernath near Mumbai allegedly died by suicide following sustained physical and mental harassment by her doctor husband and in-laws. The deceased, identified as Vishakha Tilkar, had married Nitin Tilkar on April 30 this year. According to her family, what began as a seemingly normal…
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A new book examines India’s federal weakening and aggressive centralisation of power
The more overt phase of centralisation in India unfolded with dramatic speed soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in May 2019. On August 5 of that year, the Modi government stunned the nation and the world by revoking Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its special constitutional status. Not only was…