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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
TopicKarnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party

Topic: Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party

In a fractious hung assembly, meet Karnataka’s ‘revolving’ MLA-elect Shankar

From participating in BJP meeting to appoint Yeddyurappa as chief minister to protesting against his swearing-in with Congress, the KPJP legislator has switched sides thrice already.

Karnataka elects more crorepatis and candidates with criminal records this year than 2013

Among the elected candidates, 54 (24%) are facing serious criminal cases, including kidnapping, rape among others, compared to 39 (17%) in 2013.

On Camera

Thali has gotten more expensive since 2020—2.3% of Indians can’t afford 2 veg meals a day

Original Thalinomics highlighted falling food prices. The updated analysis using HCES 2023–24 suggests that food access remains limited for a significant share of Indian households.

Hints of thaw in US-China tariff war—as Trump says duties to ‘come down’, China open to talks

Trump has expressed optimism about reaching a tariff agreement ‘pretty quickly’, while Xi said that tariff & trade wars undermine the legitimate rights and interests of all countries.

Ultra & Alpine Quest—technologies that keep Pakistani terrorists, especially LeT, going in J&K

The first recovery of ‘Ultra’ sets happened in 2023 in the Jammu region and not Kashmir.

Pakistan ISI is killing Hindus for 45 years. To turn India into a nation at war with itself

At some point, Pakistan’s calculation has been, Hindus will rise in reprisal against their own minorities. That’s a crisis ISI has been conjuring up in India. A nation at war with itself.