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The Delimitation Commissions have been previously set up in 1952, 1963, 1972 and 2002, after each census. But delimitation may just include redrawing of boundaries and doesn’t necessarily mean a change in the number of constituencies. In fact, the number of Lok Sabha constituencies were last revised in 1972, ...

The nature of his engagement with the officialdom in Kashmir is now subject to elaborate high-level inquiry. There are reports that Patel visited several districts of the Valley where he was courted by senior officials of the administration. At least three deputy magistrates have met him. In Budgam, Patel ...

Compared to Iqbal and Faiz, Josh’s works have not inspired any significant scholarship in either South Asia or the West. One of the reasons could be that his Shia identity in an increasingly sectarian Pakistan did not sit well in the country’s canon. In India, on the other hand, ...

This is crucial vis-a-vis its preparations for the state assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, and eventually for the 2024 general elections.Kejriwal's Soft-Hindutva: Footnotes From PunjabAs BJP's saffron politics pivoted on its narrative of Hindutva remains fashionable in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Gujarat, Karnataka, ...

India are playing Pakistan on Sunday in the 2021 T20 World Cup. Source link

Since 5 October, seven civilians—Satinder Kour, Deepak Chand, Majid Ahmad Gojri, Mohammad Shafi Dar, Virendar Paswan, Mohammad Shafi Lone and ML Bindroo—were all killed in separate incidents in Srinagar and Bandipore.This year, according to The Indian Express, at least 28 civilians have been killed in Kashmir till 7 October. ...

Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the 92-year-old veteran Hurriyat leader, who guided the separatist movement in Kashmir, passed away late on 1 September at his Srinagar residence.Though he tendered his resignation from the Hurriyat Conference almost 15 months ago and had been in house dentition for more than a decade, ...

As a relatively weakened organisation, ISIS-K’s immediate goals are to replenish its ranks and signal its resolve through high-profile attacks. Doing so can help ensure that the group doesn’t become an irrelevant player in the Afghanistan-Pakistan landscape. It is interested in attacking US and allied partners abroad, but the ...

Pakistan’s demands according to the New York Times, include control over drone strikes, which is entirely unacceptable to the US.That leaves India, with its minimal presence in Farkhor in Tajikistan and an expanding cooperative network in the region. That airfield could be made operational if China, based a little ...

Why India Wants to Safeguard LakshadweepThe challenge in Lakshadweep is fraught. The islands lie at a very strategically sensitive part of the country. Ships in great numbers from the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal go to East Asia in sea lanes on either side of the Lakshdweep islands.To ...