Politics Recast: How 18 Years Changed Rajasthan

Rs 5 Gutkha Dispute Turns Violent In Rajasthan, Youth Attacked With Sword

A minor argument over gutkha in Rajasthan's Bhilwara city turned violent after a youth was chased with a sword and later stabbed in the neck.

ANDREW NEIL: Multi-party mayhem will only nothing but instability

Thursday's elections were a watershed in British ­politics. They marked the formal demise of two-party ­politics in our country and the transition to a multi-party system. This is a rupture, a new start.

Politics Recast: How 18 Years Changed Rajasthan

Since 2008, Rajasthan’s politics has been shaped as much by the street and the party backroom as by the ballot box. The Gujjar reservation agitation showed how mass mobilisation could force policy shifts, while the Congress years exposed how internal rebellion—most dramatically Sachin Pilot’s 2020 breakaway—could threaten govts from within. Even as power kept alternating between Congress and BJP, new regional forces began altering local equation…

Britain Has Entered a New Era of Multiparty Politics. It’s Messy.

A voting system created when two parties dominated is being tested by the rise of newer competitors.