State Scan

As AAP makes a third front with regional party GFP, Congress plan to have united front in tatters

The UCC faces a genuine tumbling block in Bihar, as BJP seeks not to upset partners JD(U) and LJP. Muslim alienation could upset electoral equilibrium

Gujarat allows shops to open 24x7, but its experiment with Ease of Doing Business may be laxity by law

The question of caste discrimination inverts Uttarakhand's social pyramid ahead of polls. The Congress is not alone in wooing Dalits

Jharkhand's recruitment tangle creates a new victim: legit recruits get the boot along with the cheats

The CM meets the qualified success in urban body polls with jubilation and relief—it's a veto for naysayers and saboteurs

Without warning or notice, 117 homes get flattened. A municipal and police posse was there—and not there

A crack anti-encroachment unit gets a rap from the court, but Revanth backs his 'demolition man'

All parties are angling for a bigger slice of the crucial Nishad vote. The riverine caste bloc ups its price by insisting on SC listing

The Shinde Sena moves to take ownership of the language card—in a bid to distance itself from the BJP

CM Satheesan, alliance partner IUML on opposite sides of a debate that puts a question of Sharia centrestage in Kerala

The seventh edition of the Madhav Gadgil plan to save the Western Ghats, although much abbreviated, still faces state scissors