The youth of Tamil Nadu are drawn to BJP, whose state chief Annamalai attracts huge crowds and media attention. CM Stalin thinks inducting son Udhayanidhi will change that.
Kashi Tamil Sangamam event in Varanasi aims to evoke ancient cultural connection between Tamil Nadu and Kashi, and weaken ruling DMK's linguistic politics in the southern state.
BJP adopts different approaches for different states. Bulldozer in UP, ED raids in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal. For Tamil Nadu, it is looking at Tamil culture.
By getting Vanathi Srinivasan, national president of BJP Mahila Morcha & known face in Tamil Nadu, to campaign in a northern state, the BJP is trying to gain foothold in the south.
Tamil Nadu BJP chief K. Annamalai has demanded police protection for BJP, RSS functionaries. Police say 14 arrests have been made in connection with the petrol bomb attacks.
Tamil Nadu partners are staying together for the sake of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, senior AIADMK leaders say. Meanwhile, BJP looks to fashion itself as 'principal opposition party'.
BJP has made much of ‘lotus blooming in every nook and corner’ of Tamil Nadu after getting 5.4% vote share in urban local body polls, but analysts say it has a way to go.
The DMK has been playing the ‘progressive’ card, not through any meaningful action, but through anti-BJP, anti-Modi and anti-Brahmin politics, and appeasement.
BJP has shown it can emerge as an alternative pole in Tamil Nadu politics and wean the state away from caste-oriented politics and silver screen leadership.
Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.
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.
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.
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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