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Topic: Bihar

BJP forced to share seats in Bihar, but Ayodhya temple push is alive

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

BJP & JDU to contest on 17 seats each, LJP gets 6 in Bihar seat-sharing deal for Lok Sabha

PTI -
Amit Shah made the announcement in presence of Nitish Kumar and Lok Janshakti Party chief and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

Even in HRD ministry there were tell-tale signs that Upendra Kushwaha would quit NDA

Kritika Sharma -
Upendra Kushwaha's exit from NDA is likely to impact the BJP in Bihar, where his RLSP was an ally.

Congress in damage-control mode, tells Kamal Nath to clarify UP, Bihar migrants remark

Neelam Pandey -
Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath’s comments on jobs for locals draws flak from Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party, Congress’ potential ally for 2019.

Days after Bihar leader Upendra Kushwaha quits NDA, BJP announces OBC meet in Patna

Ruhi Tewari -
Besides the OBC meet in February, morcha meetings will be held with focus on SC/STs too

Upendra Kushwaha’s exit could undo BJP’s carefully planned Bihar caste coalition

Pragya Kaushika -
Upendra Kushwaha, who belongs to the Koeri community, was an important cog in BJP’s Bihar caste alliance of non-Yadav OBCs.

BJP’s Bihar ally Upendra Kushwaha quits NDA, says Modi reduced Cabinet to ‘rubber stamp’

Pragya Kaushika -
Bihar leader Upendra Kushwaha attacks PM Modi in letter, says ministers and officials have become mere 'figureheads', accuses govt of ‘toeing RSS agenda’.

Why political parties are scared of Lalu Prasad Yadav

Dilip Mandal -
Terminally ill and in jail, Lalu Prasad Yadav still scares his opponents.

Bihar ex-minister Manju Verma surrenders to court in Muzaffarpur shelter home case

PTI -
Manju Verma and her husband, Chandrashekhar Verma reported having close links with the prime accused in Muzaffarpur shelter home scandal.

Can’t return home until family agrees with my divorce, says Tej Pratap Yadav

PTI -
RJD chief Lalu Prasad's son and MLA Tej Pratap Yadav has been in the news for his failed marriage with wife Aishwarya Rai.
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Opinion

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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