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Udaipur killing fits the pattern of Western Islamic radicalisation. But don’t politicise it

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
Nupur Sharma supporters to liberals, everyone must understand it's dangerous to draw too many general conclusions from the Udaipur incident.
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Will US craft a new oil compact with Saudi Arabia? Joe Biden may have to eat his own words

+TFP Praveen Swami -
Like many, India will be anxiously watching the US-Saudi Arabia summit in Jeddah—knowing its fate is tied to the decisions King Salman and Joe Biden make.
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Zubair or Udaipur – Under Modi, India has entered era of total politics

+TFP Yogendra Yadav -
Narendra Modi’s silence on the constitutional meltdown is a message in itself.
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What Jack Ma’s increasing public appearances tell about China’s changing stance on businesses

Aadil Brar -
The easing of the tech crackdown signifies that Xi is trying to make space for other political ideas, including the revival pro-market approach.
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MP para teachers scheme showed India struggled with contract service. Apply that to Agnipath

Mekhala Krishnamurthy -
Agnipath is a continuation of the casualisation of frontline workers in civil bureaucracy—a trend that began in MP in 1996. It didn't turn out too well.
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On Maharashtra, BJP only concerned with three Gs. Gujarat, Guwahati and Goa—connect the dots

Bharat Agrawal -
Lalu and Yashwant Sinha never gelled well. The rift goes long back—when Sinha was a top bureaucrat and Lalu an emerging leader.
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Hard-nosed, practical—why India has revived relations with Kabul, and why Taliban is welcoming

Jyoti Malhotra -
By protecting the Indian embassy in Kabul for the last ten months, the Taliban is sending a message to its neighbours and the rest of the world.
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India readying Bharat NCAP for safer cars but curbing violations can make big difference too

Kushan Mitra -
The New Car Assessment Programme or NCAP is a standard of car-safety testing. It involves crashing a brand-new vehicle to rate it on the safety scale.
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Simranjit Singh Mann is reborn because there’s an uneasy vacuum in Punjab

+TFP Ronki Ram -
By electing AAP three months ago, people of Punjab had shown they were fed up with the vicious power circle of BJP-SAD-Congress. They are now teaching AAP the same lesson.
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Why ‘buy now, pay later’ fad doesn’t sit well with RBI

Andy Mukherjee -
The RBI wants every small-ticket loan to be a marriage officially solemnised in the church of banking. Its new guidelines stop nonbanks from loading digital wallets using credit lines.
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Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet

Sayantan Bera -
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.

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Indian Naval Air Squadron INAS 324 commissioned at Visakhapatnam | Twitter | @PBNS_India

India’s Eastern Seaboard gets its first naval air squadron INAS 324

Suchet Vir Singh -
With INAS 324, the Indian Navy's Eastern Seaboard will now operate a naval air squadron with HAL’s indigenously built Advanced Light Helicopter.

National Interest

Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest

Shekhar Gupta -
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.

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