Topic: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
After caste census & ‘majboori ka CM’, Nitish call for Pegasus probe is latest rift with BJP
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's demand for a Pegasus probe comes a day after his meeting with INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala, which triggered a lot of interest in political circles.
Former Manipur Congress chief Govindas Konthoujam joins BJP
A six-time consecutively elected MLA from the Bishnupur seat, Konthoujam had quit the Congress a few days back.
Basavaraj Bommai will be new Karnataka CM, BJP picks 61-year-old to replace Yediyurappa
Basavaraj Bommai, 61, is a close confidante of Yediyurappa and a Lingayat leader like him. He will take oath as Karnataka CM Wednesday.
Why BJP has to win UP by a bigger margin than it did in 2017 elections
The BJP had won 312 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2017 elections.
Chidambaram slams BJP for their silence on Siddiqui’s death, soaring inflation
The senior Congress leader said BJP-NDA will not comment on both the issues because both do not fit into the "their false narrative of we have security, development and welfare".
Piyush Goyal gets a step up in BJP, named new Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
Piyush Goyal replaces former Union minister Thawar Chand Gehlot, who was dropped from the Union Cabinet and appointed Karnataka governor last week.
Modi govt uses & dumps allies, looking to Didi for Gorkhaland solution, Bimal Gurung says
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief Bimal Gurung says he is looking to achieve his Gorkhaland demands through peaceful means now, sends delegation to Kolkata to discuss the issue.
India is and will remain a democracy and why restoring statehood for J&K will be a mistake
Subscribers look at Middle East and Myanmar to argue in favour of India’s democracy and note how statehood will undermine all progress made by revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
BJP appoints ex-IPS officer ‘Singham’ K Annamalai as Tamil Nadu unit chief
K Annamalai, who quit the IPS to join politics, will take the place of L Murugan who was inducted into the Union Cabinet on Wednesday as a minister of state.
‘Corona Management Ka UP Model’ — UP BJP’s ‘damage control’ in 5 pages, 60 bullet points
UP BJP is set to distribute a booklet to counter the opposition’s sustained jibes of 'Covid mismanagement' by the Yogi Adityanath government.
Sugar price hasn’t risen much in a decade and that isn’t healthy
Water-intensive surplus sugarcane production isn’t environmentally sustainable.
‘Shot in the arm for the world’ — IMF nations approve $650 bn to aid Covid fight
The creation of the reserve assets is the first since $250 bn issued after global financial crisis in 2009 & is meant to help nations deal with debt & fallout from the pandemic.
Defence
Project Cheetah set to take off, India to get upgraded & armed drones from Israel
Under the project, the Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Israeli Herons will be upgraded to undertake specialised and longer surveillance missions & precision strikes.
Why Mizoram vs Assam is a BJP project to ‘integrate’ northeast gone wrong
Assam-Mizoram violence is an outcome of BJP trying too hard to ‘integrate’ distinct northeastern states. This has unleashed latent regionalism.