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The Haryana leader who’s uniting anti-Jat forces and could hurt BJP & Congress

Former BJP MP Rajkumar Saini is the man behind the Lok Suraksha Party, an astute political formula consolidating the anti-Jat vote in Haryana.

Why Odisha wants more and more of Naveen Patnaik, it’s 4-time chief minister

Naveen Patnaik, the Odisha CM, continues to hold sway in the state through a carefully-cultivated clean image, pro-poor policies and media management.

‘No other like Modi,’ they say in MP’s Mahakoshal after voting Congress in assembly polls

The Mahakoshal region accounts for six of MP's 29 Lok Sabha seats. Five went to the BJP in 2014, while one elected Kamal Nath for a ninth term.

Giant statues of Hindu gods and leaders are making Muslims in India nervous

The mammoth public shrines to Hindu nationalism are a pet project of PM Modi and the BJP.

Kerala candidates hit Lok Sabha campaign trail again, to clean up the mess they made

Now that all of Kerala’s 20 Lok Sabha seats have voted, a few candidates are leading campaigns to remove the deluge of promotional material.

J&K police car used to distribute food packs at BJP rally in Anantnag, probe ordered

After a video of the instance surfaced, the vehicle was withdrawn from the person and driver it was attached to.

Modi govt’s biggest failure has been in tackling unemployment, says Manmohan Singh

Former PM Manmohan Singh also said that despite having a full majority, Modi govt couldn’t achieve UPA’s 8.1% average growth rate in five years.

‘I am very much alive’, Mani Shankar Aiyar tells trolls claiming he ‘died in Balakot’

With trolls poking fun that he had been killed in the Balakot strikes, Aiyar says he has been campaigning in the south, but ‘BJP doesn’t understand Tamil’.

Pragya Thakur’s remarks on Karkare were ‘very wrong’, says Maharashtra CM Fadnavis

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis also says Congress ‘cooked up’ term Hindu terror for vote-bank politics when terrorism was at his state’s doorstep.

7 military veterans join BJP saying even they have a ‘right to political thought’

The retired officers said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken historic decisions in matters of defence and that the country could only flourish under him.

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Hormuz crisis won’t replace the dollar with yuan. De-dollarisation is a myth

Recent data does not support any dramatic shift away from the dollar. As per IMF, the share of international transactions conducted in dollars has declined from 56.90% to 56.77%.

Haryana’s new industrial policy in the works, but industry says old problems remain unsolved

Increase in employment subsidy, Rs 500 crore for estate revamp, new townships in pipeline—but land cost, power breakdowns and inspector raj top among key worries for industry leaders.

Military pushes for private participation in space, more Indian satellites. ‘Can’t rely on single entity’ 

CDS Anil Chauhan says future space capability will not be built by government agencies alone. ‘It will be co-developed with industry, start-ups, and technology innovators’.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.