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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Tighter security for PM Modi, MHA says ‘threats to life at an all-time high’

PTI -
Not even ministers and officers will be allowed to come too close to the prime minister unless cleared by his special security.

What Gowda’s bed yoga and Nitish’s no-yoga may tell us about 2019

D.K. Singh -
On the face of it, Gowda’s and Kumar’s responses to PM Modi’s yoga promotion project gave an impression of restless souls trapped in the wrong bodies. But are they?

Opposition parties must set aside egos to take on BJP in 2019 elections: Tejashwi Yadav

Asim Kamal -
Yadav says issue of prime ministerial candidate secondary, more important for opposition parties to come together.

Upset Amit Shah cracks whip on Haryana leadership, tells them to get their act together now

Pragya Kaushika -
BJP chief gives party's Haryana unit 10 days to complete organisational tasks such as mass outreach plan and setting up booth-level committees. 

The grand opposition alliance will not work because it doesn’t have a Modi

TN Ninan -
The alliance is also unlikely to have a strong anchor party to act as the glue or a sufficiently comfortable majority

Forget Congress-mukt Bharat, is BJP planning an ally-mukt party for 2019?

Kalyani Shankar -
The BJP is ambitious and wants to expand while the allies are suspicious of it.

Controversial Jairam Ramesh has skills, but some in Congress don’t want him to run 2019 war room

Rasheed Kidwai -
Jairam Ramesh is known as someone who has had many lives. The technocrat from IIT has come unscathed from several controversies.

Focus 2019, Modi govt sets ambitious target to finish rural road construction

Ruhi Tewari -
The BJP-led government plans to complete 61,000 km covering over 19,000 habitations by March next year — the highest target set by it since 2014.

The so-called non-political RSS is setting the agenda for 2019 elections

Kumar Ketkar -
For the first time, the RSS has come out into the political mainstream. So far the organisation pretended that it was only a cultural body.

Lousy economics & lousier politics: Modi govt acting like any other panicky last-year govt

Shekhar Gupta -
A series of bypoll losses has pushed the Modi government into panic mode. Uncharacteristically, it’s letting events dictate its actions.
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SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Amana Begam -
India is a country where access to documents and digital systems is still uneven. Election Commission's SIR must not turn into a hostile exercise.

Moderate Democrat victories signal a bigger shift than Mamdani. The party is bouncing back

As Gaza peace plan takes shape, does India have a role?

Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

+TFP Debdutta Chakraborty -
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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