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MPs, MLAs who are lecturers, teachers can continue teaching, will be paid salary: UGC

Kritika Sharma -
The UGC has also decided that when the MPs or MLAs attend legislative sessions, they will be marked present at their educational institutions as well.

BJP’s priority is national security but look who asked most defence questions in Lok Sabha

Samyak Pandey -
Only one BJP MP features in a list of 10 parliamentarians who asked the most number of questions on national security-related issues in 16th Lok Sabha.

It’s a myth that 2014 election was exceptional in the vote share of winning candidates

Pradeep Chhibber -
At the constituency level, the 2009 election was the most competitive election India witnessed in the last five decades.

Only 12 of 31-MP House panel that summoned Jack Dorsey have verified Twitter handles

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
The parliamentary panel on IT has summoned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on 25 February over complaints about the portal's 'anti-Right bias'.

The pointlessness of young Indian politicians

Baijayant Jay Panda -
Statistics show that younger members of parliament participate significantly less in the Parliament.

Nearly one in three MPs embroiled in criminal cases, data shows

Simrin Sirur -
Data shows that 33% of Lok Sabha MPs and 22% of Rajya Sabha MPs are named in criminal cases.  

Data shows Parliament has sunk to a new low as govt and opposition parties slug it out

Ruhi Tewari -
This is the least productive budget session since 2014, with the Rajya Sabha also witnessing meaningful activity for just 35% of the planned time.

MPs’ salary increase: Here’s what our lawmakers’ new pay package looks like

Pragya Kaushika -
The Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances approved the parliamentary affairs ministry’s proposals, doubling MPs’ basic salary from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh. New...

Kumar Ketkar’s nomination reveals the dangers of letting journalists become lawmakers

Rajdeep Sardesai -
Journalists don't enjoy the luxury of lawyers who can afford to wear two hats, without compromising their professional integrity at some level.

PM’s Varanasi catchment takes Union Cabinet by storm

Kumar Anshuman -
Each of the five MPs along the 300-km highway corridor on either side of Varanasi is now a Union minister.
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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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