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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.

‘Dynasty, casteism & regionalism’ — Modi takes aim at Congress, other parties on BJP foundation day

Unnati Sharma -
In virtual address to party workers, PM slams Congress for 'feudal mentality' & 'mocking' the poor and downtrodden. He says BJP's culture is to take everyone along.

SubscriberWrites: Western political thinker’s anxiety over Modi’s popularity misplaced

Sumanta Guha -
A poor country with a population of nearly one and a half billion can scarcely afford years of one party chasing out the last from power, writes Sumanta Guha.

CBI is a ‘brand for justice’, its main responsibility is to make India corruption free: Modi

ThePrint Team -
The prime minister addressed the probe agency’s diamond jubilee Monday, and extolled its role in giving hope to common citizens.

As Modi flags off 11th Vande Bharat Express from Bhopal, a look at 4-year journey of India’s fastest train

Sukriti Vats -
Manufactured under Make in India initiative, the trains are equipped with unique features. Travel time from Delhi to Bhopal reduced from 11 hours to 7-½ hours.

‘Politically vexatious’: Gujarat HC on Kejriwal plea as it set aside CIC order for disclosure of PM’s degrees

Apoorva Mandhani -
Hearing Gujarat University plea, HC said plea such as Arvind Kejriwal's, when he himself was a respondent before the CIC, makes 'mockery of intent and purpose of RTI Act'. 
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Why Pinarayi Vijayan is going soft on an Ezhava leader’s anti-Muslim hate speech

Anand Kochukudy -
Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.

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Economy

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

Defence

2025: Pakistan’s deadliest year in over a decade

Sushovan Chakraborty -
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.

National Interest

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Shekhar Gupta -
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.

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