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With grand ‘yagna’ & new office in Delhi, KCR steps up drive to become ‘desh ka neta’

Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao is in Delhi for two-day yagna that will conclude with official launch of the office of his renamed party, Bharat Rashtra Samithi.

WhatsApp chats, ‘conspiracy meetings’: How BJP’s Santhosh became an accused in TRS poaching case

Telangana govt-appointed SIT submits fresh evidence against BJP's top gun in court. The senior leader's name had figured in a remand report & SIT had named him as accused last week.

‘Shinde model’ vs ‘call to Kharge’ — KCR’s daughter Kavitha & BJP trade barbs in Telangana

Denying BJP MP Dharmapuri's claims that she had called the Congress president, Kavitha Kalvakuntla challenged him to contest against her in polls, threatened to 'slap him with slippers'.

National ambitions in mind, KCR could send party legislators to campaign against BJP in Gujarat

With an aim to dent BJP voter base, Telangana CM considers sending a team of MPs, MLAs, MLCs to Gujarat where polls are due next month; BJP says it will turn out to be a futile exercise.

Modi will be BJP face in Telangana polls, says Rajya Sabha MP after ‘moral victory’ in bypoll

Senior BJP member K Laxman says TRS made Munugode bypoll battle of 'prestige', pumping in over Rs 500 cr to ensure victory. For 2023, he says, BJP will focus on mass appeal of Modi.

In ‘semi-final’ bypoll before Telangana elections in 2023, TRS survives tough match with BJP

Bypolls in Munugode were necessitated by defection of sitting MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy from Congress to BJP. BJP put up a tough fight, experts say they relied on Reddy’s clout

Cameras, voice recorders, ‘nariyal paani’ & ‘vitamin’ – How BJP ‘agents’ were trapped in Telangana

TRS MLA Rohit Reddy was told to ask for coconut water as signal to cops for action. WhatsApp chats of accused mention list of 50 TRS & Congress MLAs, says remand document.

Drama in Telangana as ‘BJP agents’ held for trying to poach TRS MLAs with ‘bribes’, oppn says staged

Three 'BJP agents' held from farmhouse of one of 4 TRS MLAs they tried to lure to rival party, say cops. Both parties have been levelling allegations in run-up to Munugode bypoll.

Our take on Gujarat violence, Bhagwat’s population theory, Pahadi reservation—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

‘What has Modi delivered?’ — KTR flexes ‘national party’ BRS’s muscles, says 2024 polls are target

Telangana IT minister said his party will focus first on neighbouring Maharashtra and Karnataka. He also lashed out at BJP and called prime minister 'inefficient and inept'.

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A ship attack has shaken Asia’s faith in the US

Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.

Amid the new war in Middle East, ‘God’ surfaces in oil and commodities contracts

Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.