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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicKarnataka MLAs

Topic: Karnataka MLAs

Congress MLA flouts ‘no person’ rule for oath-taking, swears in name of ‘aaradhya dhaiva’ Shivakumar

Sharan Poovanna -
Others to violate the rule during oath-taking for new Karnataka assembly was BJP's Basanagouda Patil who swore on 'Hindutva & Goumata'. Several others took oath in the name of local deities.

Sex scandal has Karnataka BJP & Congress on edge ahead of bypolls

Rohini Swamy -
At least eight leaders of BJP and Congress have reportedly fallen prey to extortion scandals based on explicit videos featuring them.

Children’s day with Indian political dynasts and Shiv Sena’s clash with Chanakya

Fiza Jha -
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How ‘constitutional silences’ saved the day for 17 disqualified Karnataka MLAs

Apoorva Mandhani -
Supreme Court has upheld Congress & JD(S) MLAs’ disqualification, but said Speaker doesn’t have power to prevent them from contesting elections.

SC clears way for 17 disqualified Karnataka MLAs to contest 5 December bypolls

Debayan Roy -
The top court observes in its ruling that there is a growing trend among assembly Speakers to act against constitutional mandate.

A jittery BJP waits as SC is set to rule on rebel Karnataka MLAs Wednesday

Rohini Swamy -
SC verdict will give rebel MLAs a clear picture on whether they can contest the 5 December bypolls or wait until 2023.

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Opinion

New Delhi prefers to look at Manipur as a horizontal problem, not vertical

Karanjeet Kaur -
‘Well-entrenched institutional apathy' is how Dhiren A Sadokpam, editor of The Frontier Manipur defined it. 'New Delhi has the power to intervene at every level,' he said.

Beneath the ice — what a lost US base from the Cold War reveals about Greenland

Mark Tully made me a journalist. The profession was religion to him: Satish Jacob

Economy

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Udit Bubna -
Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

Defence

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Vaibhav Pant -
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

National Interest

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

Shekhar Gupta -
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.

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