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Topic: Northeast

Citizenship Bill & PRC: BJP’s identity politics in NE a self-goal or will polarisation help?

ThePrint Team -
BJP-ruled Arunachal Pradesh is witnessing heightened protests after a government panel recommended granting PRC to members of six non-native communities.

Citizenship Bill: Will BJP lose hard-won support in northeast or consolidate Hindu votes?

ThePrint Team -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted with black flags and protests over the contentious Citizenship Bill, which will be discussed in Rajya Sabha today.

How BJP became an acceptable party in a Christian-majority state like Nagaland

Ashish Ranjan -
The BJP may sweep northeast in 2019 polls but Narendra Modi is not the only reason.

Assam Accord panel chairperson writes to MHA, says committee is ‘defunct’

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Bezbarauah’s comments come in the wake of several other members expressing their reservations regarding the committee constituted on 5 January

Will separate time zone for northeast increase efficiency or logistical chaos, alienation?

ThePrint Team -
A government panel formed to review the demand for a separate time zone for the northeast recommended against it citing "strategic reasons". This has been a longstanding...

Beyond Congress or BJP, Mizoram elections hold a lesson for post-insurgency politics

Rahul Verma -
Mizoram assembly elections prove that normalisation of electoral process roots out insurgency.

Arunachal Pradesh is Indian Army’s tallest ally, don’t take its people for granted

Tongam Rina -
The alleged violence by the personnel of the 2nd Arunachal Scouts at a police station in Bomdila isn’t acceptable behaviour.

Vanishing ways: A photographer sets out to freeze northeast’s dying traditions

Sankalita Dey -
Shyamal Datta’s photographs depict the different daily rituals of different tribes, with fire emerging as a recurring theme.

VHP wants Modi govt to impose countrywide beef ban, set up cow ministry

Pragya Kaushika -
Senior VHP leaders say BJP has agreed that cow slaughter should be banned but yet to take any concrete steps on this issue.

BJP has begun plotting how it can win over the seventh, and last, sister of the northeast

Ruhi Tewari -
Sources in the party who are part of the team stationed in Mizoram say they had begun work in February to build the BJP’s presence from the ground-up.
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IndiGo chaos forces DGCA to look inward—spotlight is back on the regulator

Bismee Taskin -
The crisis also puts DGCA’s vacancies in the eye of the storm. Naidu told the Rajya Sabha in July this year that 190 out of 410 DGCA vacancies would be filled this year.

Bangladesh polls and return of BNP’s Tarique Rahman—why Jamaat-e-Islami holds the key to both

A shame-faced modesty pervades 1991 reforms. This is strange and inappropriate: Ashok Desai

Economy

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Udit Bubna -
Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

Defence

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Vaibhav Pant -
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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