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TopicAjay Rai

Topic: Ajay Rai

Gujarat contractors ‘prevailing’ — UP Congress chief targets firm behind Kashi Vishwanath project

Ajay Rai says 'people of Amethi miss Rahul Gandhi' and UP Congress will stand by Priyanka 'with full might' if she decides to contest 2024 polls from Varanasi.

Amid Vedic chants & sea of supporters, Ajay Rai takes charge of UP Congress — ‘let’s make Rahul PM’

Rai’s first message to party workers was to strive to make Rahul Gandhi the prime minister in 2024, and he asked them to ‘spend every hour and day’ to achieve the goal.

‘Rahul Gandhi will fight from Amethi in 2024 polls,’ says Congress’s new UP chief Ajay Rai

Day after his appointment, Rai says if Priyanka wishes to contest from Varanasi, 'each and every worker will fight for their lives'. Varanasi is Modi’s parliamentary seat.

Party hopper, five-time MLA, faced Modi in Varanasi — who is new UP Congress chief Ajay Rai

Ajay Rai contested his first assembly election in 1996 & was fielded by Congress against Narendra Modi in Varanasi in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

No Priyanka vs Modi fight in Varanasi as Congress fields Ajay Rai

Ajay Rai, who is considered a local strongman in Varanasi, came third in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, after PM Modi and Arvind Kejriwal.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.