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The Ram Mandir test: How Modi fares can be his defining legacy

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The Ayodhya issue will test Modi’s political capital, because one party will leave the table more aggrieved than the other.
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A runaway judiciary is Modi govt’s biggest frustration

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There's much room for reform in the government-judiciary relationship. But first, both need to speak the same language. 
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Mandal is reborn, minus the Muslim factor

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Identity politics is returning to the centre stage and political parties and next-generation leaders are rushing to carve out a slice.
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The Gujarat division of CBI

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An extraordinary push to to appoint officers with a ‘Gujarat connect’ has turned the country’s premier investigative agency into a messy, divided house.
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In the name of interlocution

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Kashmir interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma has little political room for manoeuvre, but his appointment is a masterstroke in political management.
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#Rahul, #Congress need to follow and like each other

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Rahul Gandhi can't be a Modi-like outsider and shake up Congress because he is a part of the problem.
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For Modi, Gujarat win will be cherry on icing

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Gujarat is the first critical state since 2014 where BJP is seeking re-election, and a convincing win will seal Modi’s supreme leader status.
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Happy Diwali, Singapore style!

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Singapore’s former premier Lee Kuan Yew had a tough time balancing firecrackers and his First World aspirations in the 1960s, but here’s what he did.
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The lone global consensus is on terrorism, and Pakistan is at the centre of it

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The world is agreed on a new, polarising stand to take on terrorism. It is good news, and a challenge for India.
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Vivan Sundaram built his theatre of art around the avant-garde spirit

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Sundaram’s larger-than-life influence on the community, history and global trajectory of Indian art is a hallmark of our cultural treasures.
Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan moves SC seeking stay on conviction, SC to hear matter on April 5

Supreme Court’s ‘guilt by association’ verdict risks innocents getting targeted under...

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Amritpal’s rise and fall expose a vulnerable Punjab. Minority bashing will...

Economy

A man walks past a logo of Alibaba Group at its office building in Beijing, China | Reuters file photo

Alibaba Group’s breakup lifts hopes China’s regulatory winter is thawing

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Alibaba said it was planning to split into 6 units & explore fundraisings or listings for most of them, in the biggest restructuring of the tech conglomerate in its 24-year history.

Defence

File photo of Bhutan’s PM Lotay Tshering | Twitter @PMBhutan

PM Tshering denies Chinese villages built in Bhutan. Expert suggests Bhutan...

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Bhutan PM Lotay Tshering refutes reports of Chinese villages being built on Bhutanese territory, says 'it is not for Bhutan alone' to settle Doklam issue.

National Interest

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Four reasons the Sikhs are hurting. And it’s not about the...

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'Causes' of anger are dera threat to Sikhism, incarceration of ‘Bandi Singhs’, inaction in sacrilege cases, & ‘if BJP-RSS want Hindu Rashtra, what’s wrong with Sikh Rashtra?’

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