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Tracing Lord Ram’s steps & wheels for girls – comparing BJP & Congress manifestos in MP

Sakshi Arora -
The BJP has released a double manifesto for the MP polls, with one dedicated solely to women. The Congress, meanwhile, has played the soft Hindutva card.
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Jaipur’s ‘smart voters’ complain the city is yet to catch up with them

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Jaipur residents say city administration frittering public money to make superficial changes in the name of the smart cities programme.
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INLD splits as Ajay Singh Chautala declares he’ll float new party

PTI -
Ajay Chautala said that he had gifted Indian National Lok Dal to his brother Abhay Chautala.
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Congress asks BJP-led coalition to prove majority in Goa, demands special assembly session

PTI -
The Congress also claimed that the party had the requisite number of MLAs to prove majority in the 40-member House
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BJP’s Goa ally MGP demands chief minister post for itself

PTI -
MGP has also warned that it would contest the Lok Sabha polls against BJP if its demand for CM post is not met.
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Congress asks union home ministry to protect Navjot Singh Sidhu outside Punjab

Neelam Pandey -
Congress has said Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has been receiving ‘more threats’ since he left the BJP
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Congress fields ex-BJP MLA Manvendra Singh against Raje to ‘avenge insult to father’

Neelam Pandey -
Manvendra Singh, the son of former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh, had quit the BJP to join the Congress in September.
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Lala Lajpat Rai: A freedom fighter and proud son of the soil

Soniya Agrawal -
The ‘Lion of Punjab’, Lala Lajpat Rai passed away on this day 90 years ago after being seriously injured in a lathi charge ordered on freedom fighters.
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Remembering Bal Thackeray, political cartoonist who metamorphosed into a political fanatic

Prerna Chatterjee -
Thackeray rode on his anti-outsider rhetoric, pandering to a sense of alienation among Maharashtrians, changing Mumbai’s landscape forever.
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The BJP could be hurt by the ‘Made-in-Mandsaur’ farmer anger even in 2019

Ruhi Tewari -
The mood in Mandsaur, the hotbed of farmer agitation in MP, provides a peek into why the BJP has its task cut out for not just these polls but 2019 too. 
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Opinion

University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

Suresh Prabhu -
India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

Modi’s Nari Shakti pitch is fake. Men hold real power in BJP

BJP wants to be the party of Nari Shakti. Here’s a list to make that happen

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Economy

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Udit Bubna -
Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Defence

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Jaydeep Gadhavi -
Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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