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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

BJP’s 10 per cent reservation for upper castes is votebank politics, but will face legal issues

Maneesh Chhibber -
Implementation of the vote-catching decision, finalised by the Union Cabinet Monday, will require deft political maneuvering.

Mayawati assures Akhilesh Yadav of support amid CBI probe into mining scam

PTI -
Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is tying up with Yadav's Samajwadi Party in a pre-poll alliance to defeat the BJP in the upcoming general election.

Chief Election Commissioner claims EVMs are tamper proof

PTI -
CEC Sunil Arora dismissed apprehensions related to the EVMs' functioning, and said there was no reason to doubt them. 

No Smriti Irani, Uma Bharti in BJP’s 17 election committees

Ruhi Tewari -
The BJP Sunday declared a list of key committees that will lead it into the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign.

AAP has no identity in Punjab, no need for alliance: Amarinder tells Congress chief Rahul

PTI -
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh said there was no need for Congress to ally with AAP in Punjab, but a final decision is yet to be announced by the party.

Neither BJP nor Congress wants to engage with the middle class

D.K. Singh -
Our leaders may be mistaken about the numbers or the spread of this part of the electorate.

Prakash Raj to contest Lok Sabha elections as an independent

PTI -
The National award-winning actor announced on Twitter that he will contest as an independent from Bengaluru Central constituency in the upcoming general elections.

When Rahul Gandhi pulls off a Kejriwal—and denies Modiji the headlines

Fatima Khan -
The parallels between 2014 and 2019 are too obvious to ignore.

Dec 2017 to Dec 2018: The year that changed Indian politics after Modi came to power

Shekhar Gupta -
In these 12 months, the script for the race between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi for 2019 was rewritten.

Months before polls, Modi govt plans to monitor media to flag ‘negative publicity’

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
PIB to hire private agencies to keep tab on all media platforms and help the government firm up its communication strategy ahead of the 2019 polls.
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A frosty start featuring ‘ULFA tapes’, thawed by a love of dogs. My conversations with Ratan Tata

Shekhar Gupta -
Besides politics, his frustrations with business environment & inspirational ideas ranging from entrepreneurship to technology, aviation, philanthropy, we discovered a common passion: dogs

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Economy

RBI’s policy-setting body keeps rates unchanged for 10th straight time, changes stance to ‘neutral’

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Change in stance signals possibility of rate cuts, potentially as early as December, depending on inflation trends & global economy. Growth projection for FY 2024-25 retained at 7.2%.

Defence

Amid concerns about use of Chinese parts in drones, Army general urges industry to be transparent

Smruti Deshpande -
Maj Gen CS Mann, ADG, Army Design Bureau, cites national security concerns. This comes after intelligence agencies flagged use of Chinese components in drones purchased by armed forces.

National Interest

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

Shekhar Gupta -
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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