After 132-seat jackpot in Maharashtra, BJP looks beyond coalition dharma. Fadnavis is no.1 in CM race
BJP’s Amit Shah set to head a meeting with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP in the national capital to make final decision on who gets the top post. Read Shanker Arnimesh’s report.
Muruganandam was appointed finance secy in Nov 2021. He has also served as industries secy and collector of Coimbatore & Chennai. IAS officer was appointed chief secy in August 2024, reports Prabhakar Tamilarasu.
Unlike LS polls, RSS & BJP worked ‘tirelessly’ in Maharashtra & Jharkhand. While the BJP-led Mahayuti put on a solid show in Maharashtra, the party fell short in the other, reports Neelam Pandey.
Look how Australian media covered the Perth Test defeat to India
Give it to the Aussies, they take a defeat on the chin and are brutal on their own cricket team while praising opposition India, writes Shailaja Bajpai.
BJP to middle class: Was nice to have your support at the beginning. Now we don’t need you
If a government knows how to accommodate the fat cats and has worked out how to win the votes of the poor with direct transfers, then it doesn’t need the middle class, writes Vir Sanghvi.
Dear Narayana Murthy, LBSNAA & UPSC are doing a fine job. They don’t need corporates
Murthy has a point. Govt can cut costs by hiring gig workers with attendant benefits. The question is, can we outsource elections, census, and disaster management, writes Sanjeev Chopra.
Broken cricket relationships in the Subcontinent aren’t about any disputes over the game, nor Hindu-Muslim issues. It’s about the state of nations, and what goes on between them, writes Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta in this week’s ‘National Interest‘.