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Karnataka hung assembly: Time to end ambiguity or leave it to governor’s discretion?

ThePrint Team -
It is now up to governor Vajubhai Vala to decide who he invites to form the government. Both the BJP and the Congress-JD (S) alliance have staked claim. Experts weigh in.

Lessons from Karnataka: Rahul Gandhi should cede space to regional parties

Kumar Anshuman -
Acting on advice of its regional leaders, Congress snubbed pre-poll feelers from the JD(S) but had they contested together, they would have secured 150 seats

Narendra Modi’s campaign-to-seats won ratio trumps Rahul Gandhi’s in Karnataka

Pragya Kaushika -
Despite a late start to the campaign, the PM touched 21 constituencies, and the BJP ended up winning 12 of them. New Delhi: When Prime...

Dalits show love for the Congress in Karnataka, but slightly more for the BJP

Kritika Sharma -
While the state’s Dalits have traditionally been Congress voters, they have also aligned with the BJP in the past, and produced a photo finish...

Prominent parties from other states swept away in Karnataka

Kumar Anshuman -
Only the BSP, which contested in alliance with the JD(S), could win a seat – its candidate beat the Congress in Kollegal by 19,454 votes.

Having cried foul in Goa, Manipur, Congress finds roles reversed in Karnataka

Maneesh Chhibber -
Party had emerged as single largest in both states but slammed governors after not being invited to form governments.

Is a JD (S)-led coalition government what Karnataka voted for?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on Congress's unconditional offer to JD (S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy to lead a new coalition government in Karnataka as the chief minister.

Congress’s loss in Karnataka assembly election reflects on Rahul Gandhi’s power as the high command

Maneesh Chhibber -
Gandhi should ask himself if his grandmother would have allowed a chief minister to dictate the terms of an electoral campaign.

Three essential Karnataka lessons for national politics 

Shekhar Gupta -
The Karnataka result seals Modi’s position as the third genuine pan-India leader after Nehru and Indira. The surprise factor could be Mayawati.

Will BJP seek JD(S) support in Karnataka or will it try to break it?

Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi -
Deve Gowda is on record rejecting any truck with BJP. In such a scenario, are Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy on the same page on an alliance partner
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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Zohran Mamdani is an authentic representation of modern India

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Nehru is suddenly back in the news. This time, the BJP could not criticise him

Economy

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Banudas Athreya -
Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

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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