In run up to assembly polls, experts say BJP is going back to the drawing board & making changes to its strategy. Opposition calls party's actions 'anti-Muslim'.
Himanta Biswa Sarma has gone all out to win over voters in constituencies with large Muslim populations, from Nagaon to Darrang-Udalguri. ‘Confident of winning 20% Muslim votes,’ he says.
Ex-MP & Pasmanda activist Ali Anwar says impact of quota for backward-class Muslims already visible in Bihar politics. BJP says quota 'depriving' Hindu backward castes of their due.
In 2014, Modi was positive & warm towards political rivals who he had defeated barely three months ago. This year, he exhorted people to 'get rid' of his adversaries.
In our already noisy cities, where the soundtrack of incessant honking is only punctuated by the din of rampant construction, clamour also follows a schedule.
Russian crude delivered to India’s west coast is already at a premium of around $2.50 a barrel, while Brent is around $107 a barrel and the UAE’s Murban crude is near $119 a barrel.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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