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Karnataka Assembly Elections

Eye on Lingayat vote, BJP likely to make Yediyurappa Karnataka campaign chief

BS Yediyurappa, ex-CM & leader of Lingayat community, won't contest assembly polls but may be face of BJP's election campaign as internal reports hint at anti-incumbency against Bommai.

Why Congress road map for 2024 doesn’t include govt-funded pension scheme it has resurrected in states

Old pension scheme — discontinued at the Centre in 2003 — was not part of economic resolution passed at All India Congress Committee (AICC) plenary in Raipur.

Tipu Sultan is back & reigning over Karnataka politics. Why BJP has resurrected him

As election approaches, BJP pits ‘unpatriotic’ Tipu against ‘patriotic’ Savarkar. It's an attempt to corner Hindu votes & divert attention from governance issues, say analysts.

BJP’s identity politics push in poll-bound Karnataka — month-long ‘Rath Yatra’ in March

Yatra will consist of four teams, led by Bommai, Yediyurappa and other BJP heavyweights.

Why BJP top leadership is taking over in poll-bound Karnataka with Bommai govt in back seat

PM Modi and senior BJP leaders are making a beeline for state, inaugurating projects, giving speeches & attending events while Bommai-led govt wades from one challenge to another.

Karnataka Congress’s women leaders are ‘invisible’. 0 MLCs, 6 MLAs & none in key party posts

On Monday, the Congress unveiled ‘Na Nayaki’, a scheme meant to empower women. But women leaders say that the party has consistently sidelined women in favour of male leaders.     

What Bommai govt’s quota upgrade for Lingayats & Vokkaligas means for EWS in poll-bound Karnataka

Govt intends to move the 2 dominant castes, so far part of 3A & 3B categories under OBC, to 2C & D, which will likely increase their quota in jobs & education by 'at least 2-3%'.

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Thailand-Cambodia clash is more than a border fight—it’s a new front in Cold War 2.0

The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.