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TopicShakhas

Topic: shakhas

This is how RSS plans to expand base in rural UP with Ram Temple & farmers in focus

Prashant Srivastava -
A blueprint for the RSS plan was chalked out last week in Lucknow, which was attended by its new general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale. 

RSS shakhas set to return, but only where risk of Covid infection is low

Neelam Pandey -
RSS asks district units to consult public before starting shakhas again, says decision is in line with new govt guidelines allowing 100 people to gather.

RSS calls off shakhas, Mohan Bhagwat says need to make social distancing a success

Neelam Pandey -
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has called on volunteers to respect social-distancing norms even while aiding the government in relief work. 

Now, RSS activists want a shakha in India’s oldest Muslim university

Sanya Dhingra -
The move is aimed at countering what is alleged 'misinformation' by the university against the sangh. 

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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Vaibhav Pant -
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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