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Topic2014 election

Topic: 2014 election

Nitin Gadkari says Modi-led BJP overpromised: Cracks in party or 2019 course-correction?

A clip tweeted by Congress president Rahul Gandhi showed senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari admitting that the BJP rode to power on the back...

A desperate and determined opposition isn’t good news for Modi

With national elections now less than a year away, the Karnataka episode reveals Modi's position atop India’s politics is less secure than it was just a few days ago.

Do your math. You will see that Modi increasingly looks like a one-term Prime Minister

The BJP has not shown any signs of improving its tally in its weak large states such as West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.