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Topic: PM Modi

Narendra Modi is India’s 14th prime minister and has been in power since May 2014. He is the first prime minister to have been born after Independence. Modi is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has served as Gujarat Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014. His Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi, though, is in Uttar Pradesh, and Modi has represented this seat since 2014.

Narendra Modi joined the RSS, the BJP’s ideological parent, in the 1970s and joined the BJP in 1987. The following year he was chosen as the party’s general secretary for Gujarat. Modi took oath as Gujarat CM in 2001, after replacing Keshubhai Patel, who was held responsible for the government’s poor response to the Bhuj earthquake. Modi contested his first-ever election in 2002, shortly after which the Gujarat riots fueled controversy over his leadership. The Supreme Court in 2022 gave a clean chit to Modi and 63 others in a plea exploring a larger conspiracy behind the riots.

Rahul’s yankee rap

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Congress vice president's anti-America attack on Modi flies in the face of his family's and world history. It'll find few takers outside of JNU.

Makeover at 44

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Whatever Rahul Gandhi was doing during his sabbatical, he has rid himself of fatal flaws for a mass politician: shying from eye contact and building an image of flightiness.

Until holy cows come home: You call this maximum governance?

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If Modi wishes to rise as a tall reformer PM, he must call the RSS/VHP bluff now.

Modi’s next test: The ‘other’ minority issue

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In a democracy, the smallest minority also has a voice and, however much you may detest it, a special right to be heard over the din of the majority.

123 and two half girlfriends

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In this season of Internet jokes on politics, let me also make a humble contribution. If Chetan Bhagat were to write a book on...

If Modi wins on Sunday

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On the eve of the 2002 Gujarat elections, I had stuck my neck out to predict, somewhat audaciously, that if Narendra Modi wins, it...
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In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

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Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

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Economy

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

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Defence

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Mrinalini Dhyani -
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

National Interest

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

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It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.

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