Daily Brief: Could an OBC backlash to the Maratha quota hurt the BJP?

Could an OBC backlash to the Maratha quota hurt the BJP?

The OBC community, a crucial voter base for the party, is loath to share reservation benefits with the politically influential Maratha community.

‘Murder of democracy, prosecute presiding officer’, says Supreme Court on Chandigarh mayoral polls

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud verbally remarked that it was obvious that the election official had defaced the ballot papers.

Uttarakhand Cabinet approves draft report on Uniform Civil Code

The Bill is set to be tabled in a special Assembly session beginning on Monday.

Poonam Pandey’s antics may have spread awareness but are a disservice to cancer patients

Aside from her creating misinformation that cervical cancer causes instant death, causing others to doubt someone’s affliction is the real damage.

How Marathi literary giant Anant Kakba Priolkar became a pioneering historian of print in India

The writer-scholar’s dedication to marking print anniversaries sparked his interest and went a long way towards building a formidable body of research.

How a (false) threat from Japan altered British attitudes towards colonial India

An excerpt from ‘The Great Flap of 1942: How the Raj Panicked over a Japanese Non-invasion’, by Mukund Padmanabhan.

When the police had to be called to control the crowds outside singing star Suraiya’s home

In the first-ever book on Suraiya, a glimpse at her rise to stardom and the mania that followed.

England tour of India: Jasprit Bumrah’s magic tricks Ben Stokes and Co in Visakhapatnam

Bumrah was awarded the player of the match for his staggering bowling performance where he picked up 9/91 in the Test match.

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