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Yogi is Baba, Mahant, or Gorakhnath. Akhilesh’s image is all about ‘change with continuity’
In some pockets of Uttar Pradesh, the soft influence of Yogi Adityanath travels independent of BJP presence and outreach.
India’s income inequality fell post 2020 lockdown as rich got poorer, US economic study shows
Non-peer-reviewed paper by US-based non-profit NBER says pandemic brought decline in inequality in two senses, the second being consumption inequality also fell marginally.
Defence
BJP leaders, Naidu’s office send out Air Force Day greetings with jets India doesn’t have
Union minister Piyush Goyal and V-P Venkaiah Naidu’s secretariat used images of Lockheed Martin’s F-16, an aircraft the Indian Air Force has never possessed.
Modi vs non-BJP CMs: When most popular isn’t all-powerful & why Centre-state ties will worsen
Modi’s inability to win many states, and the huge popularity his rivals enjoy there, is pushing Indian politics in a more robustly federal direction.