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Maharashtra | The maha kushti alliance
The stinging legislative council losses in Nagpur and elsewhere renew overt hostilities within the Mahayuti—as Shinde camp calls for his return as CM, BJP says 'the real opposition is within'
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Punjab | AAP's defence first strategy
Pargat entered the field as a compromise state Congress chief, after months of factional war. But in politics as in hockey, he's forced to play defence
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Karnataka | The blistering season of stings
Questions swirl around a purported sting video from the past—who shot it and why, is it fake, who leaked it now? Big fish in political cesspool
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West Bengal | Suvendu's clean-up crew
A refurbished Anti-Corruption Branch gets cracking on a long-festering sore in Bengal: institutional corruption. The flagship initiative will be tested on its reach
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Jammu and Kashmir | Ruhullah speaks a fiery farewell
The NC suffers a shock as its sharpest internal critic calls it quits—citing its failure to redeem poll pledges
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Gujarat | Spot leopard, read pattern
Leopards seen ambling in Ahmedabad's newer fringe put focus on the real apex predator: booming human cities
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Madhya Pradesh | What's behind the hooch tragedies
Legislative council elections were perhaps never watched so closely. But four states leave some questions—written on ballot paper—for the BJP
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MLC elections | Warning from the ballots
Legislative council elections were perhaps never watched so closely. But four states leave some questions—written on ballot paper—for the BJP
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Bihar | Strongman shows JDU the door
The party expelled Mokama MLA Anant Singh, but it is he who is calling curtains on his old party
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West Bengal | The Bengal minority report
It's a ticking counter: dozens of attacks on Christians, and a systemic policy targeting of Muslims
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Gujarat | Green power vs green power
Saurashtra's Patidar farmers, including those aligned to BJP, protest an 'unfair' compensation
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Uttar Pradesh | Edge of the seat suspense
The SP and Congress are in the hard bargaining phase. The tension is showing at times, then melting, as the 'Do Ladke' head into another poll test
