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Kharge tried to build up a case against the RSS, extensively quoting the first Union Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Patel, who had banned the RSS immediately in the aftermath of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. While there was no direct evidence that the assassin and his co-conspirators were members of the RSS, Patel built up a case that the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi was the result of the venomous atmosphere created by the RSS across the country in the aftermath of the partition. Kharge claimed that Patel even said that the RSS volunteers had celebrated Gandhi’s killing and distributed sweets.

Declared a war criminal by the International Court of Justice, the Israeli prime minister has remained stubborn in the face of arrest warrants, sanctions and boycotts

October 31 marks 41 years of the assassination of former Prime Minister Ms Indira Gandhi. It was on the morning of October 31, 1984, as she had got ready to appear for a television interview that her two “trusted Sikh bodyguards” took her unawares and shot her dead point-blank, raining a shower of bullets on her from their automatic weapons.

The controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has reignited political fault lines, with Opposition parties alleging bias and the Election Commission asserting due process.

The recent death of 14 children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan due to contaminated cough syrups is a national tragedy. It’s heartbreaking that the deaths were linked to a generic cough syrup containing dangerous levels of an industrial chemical.

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to attend his first public rally along with the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on October 29. This is more of a token presence that Gandhi will mark in the Bihar battlefield. Otherwise, he has remained away all these days.

An unprecedented string of recusals, 16 judges stepping aside from hearing IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi’s cases, has stirred debate over judicial accountability.

The upcoming Tarn Taran by-election in Punjab, scheduled for November 11, has drawn intense attention as it tests the Aam Aadmi Party’s hold over its traditional base amid a rising undercurrent of radical politics. The contest, though unlikely to affect AAP’s majority, could signal a deeper political shift ahead of the 2027 polls.

Even 78 years after Partition, the brutal communal violence against non-Muslims in Kashmir, including gang-rapes and massacres, remains overlooked, with historical myths still obscuring the truth.

Omar Abdullah’s Rajya Sabha picks has sparked disappointment in Jammu, raising questions about NC’s regional representation despite the CM’s otherwise pragmatic leadership.

A decade after the Dantewada massacre, Bastar’s forests remain scarred by violence. Amid ‘encounters’ and corporate-driven development, the tribals bear the cost of a war they never chose.

Delhi’s air quality hits hazardous levels post-Diwali, sparking outrage as green crackers fail to curb pollution and systemic inaction persists.