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THE BIJAPUR BLOODBATH
As they close in on the last redoubts of the Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the security forces come under a deadly attack. Lessons from past ambushes remain unlearned
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April 19, 2021
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MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES
NOT ONE TO CONFORM TO THE BOLLYWOOD MODEL, EMRAAN HASHMI MARCHES TO HIS OWN TUNE
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April 19, 2021
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MISSING IN ACTION
Rivals in Kerala, allies in Bengal—is the Congress’s dual relationship with the Left keeping the Gandhis from joining the campaign against Mamata?
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April 19, 2021
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BJP's Bengal Regiment
After a stellar show in the 2019 general election, winning 18 of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, the BJP emerged as the principal challenger to CM Mamata Banerjee’s TMC in West Bengal.
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April 19, 2021
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Amish Does 'Self-Help'
The author’s new book is, at best, an advertisement for his oeuvre
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April 05, 2021
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Making The BJP Future-Ready
The current assembly elections will be a turning point for the party. If it wins in Bengal, nothing will stop its return in 2024. But if it loses, it could trigger a domino effect and jeopardise its reforms agenda
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April 12, 2021
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Can The Gandhis Save The Congress?
While some believe the party could yet emerge the dark horse, others feel it has nothing much to offer its cadre or voters
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April 12, 2021
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‘THE BJP'S STRENGTH IS ITS COHESION'
At the helm of India’s dominant political party, BJP national president JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA, in an exclusive interview with Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa and Senior Editor Anilesh S. Mahajan, reveals what makes the organisation the powerhouse it is today and how it prepares for future challenges. Excerpts
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April 12, 2021
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Trial by FIRe
Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has upped the ante in the phone-tapping row surrounding an alleged plot last year to pull down the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan.
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April 12, 2021
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THE ‘T' COMPANY
Thane emerges as a crucial link in Bombgate. The suspected cops in the case had all been posted in the satellite city to Mumbai’s north. The murderer and his victim lived there too
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April 12, 2021
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THE KEN-BETWA BATTLEGROUND
On March 22, World Water Day, the Centre inked a tripartite agreement with the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh to push forward work on the Ken-Betwa River Link (KBRL) project.
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April 12, 2021
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SPLIT IN THE BODO VOTE?
The BPF has a strong presence in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Region, but it might face its toughest competition yet in ally-turned-rival BJP
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April 12, 2021
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INAUSPICIOUS START
When the BJP won 74 of the 110 seats it conte sted in the November 2020 election for the 243member Bihar assembly, just one less than the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s 75 (of 144 con tested) and well ahead of alliance part ner Janata Dal (United)’s 43 (of 115 seats), it achieved two things: become the principal opposition to the RJD in Bihar, and the dominant partner in the National Democratic Alliance.
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April 12, 2021
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FUMBLING AT THE FINISH LINE
Will internal rift and controversial candidate selections upset the BJP applecart in West Bengal?
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April 12, 2021
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DESPERATE GAMBIT
The AIADMK is banking on its development agenda and tall poll promises while relying on its allies to malign the DMK to win a third consecutive term
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April 12, 2021
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BRACING FOR NEW DISRUPTIONS
BUSINESSES ARE MORE RESILIENT AFTER A YEAR OF THE PANDEMIC, BUT THEY WILL BE SEVERELY TESTED AGAIN AS INDIA BATTLES A SECOND WAVE OF COVID-19
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April 12, 2021
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Duty And The Beast
With his new film, Haathi Mere Saathi, having arrived in theatres, Rana Daggubati hopes to make audiences more mindful of the world and environment in which they live
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April 05, 2021
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How A Botched Plot Against Mukesh Ambani Exposes A Murky Police-Politician Nexus In Mumbai
An amateur plot to extort India’s richest man goes horribly wrong, lifting the lid off Mumbai's murky khaki-khadi nexus and threatening the survival of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government
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April 05, 2021
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Mahakumbh: Why The Show Must Go On
Mahakumbh Mela 2021
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April 05, 2021
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Between Friend And Enemy
Audrey Truschke’s new book is evidence that scholarship trumps controversy
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April 05, 2021
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Making Myth Modern
NEW MYTHOLOGY-ORIENTED BOOKS
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April 05, 2021
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"We want the Mining Act to be amended"
Two years ago, on March 18, 2019, the 47-year-old PRAMOD SAWANT, an ayurvedic doctor-turned-politician, had the difficult task of stepping into the very big shoes of Manohar Parrikar, who had passed away the previous day. At the time, the BJP was in a minority in the Goa government, Sawant had no administrative experience and no one to guide him, the other two influential leaders—Laxmikant Parsekar and Rajendra Arlekar—having lost the state election two years ago. Goa’s economy was already precarious, after the Supreme Court cancelled 88 mining leases in February 2018, inflicting an annual loss of Rs 1,000 crore since then. The arrival of Covid-19 in March 2020 dealt a further blow as national and international travel restrictions hit its other mainstay—tourism. Goa’s debt has risen from Rs 12,395 crore in March 2017 to Rs 18,444 crore by December 2020. Sawant also took flak for reducing the annual parental income criterion for the popular Laadli Lakshmi scheme (in which a girl child gets Rs 1 lakh when she turns 18) from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 3 lakh in October 2020. With India’s highest per capita income, Goa (counter-intuitively) has a higher number of people above the income threshold than below the revised lower income threshold. There is also the dispute with Karnataka over the Mhadei’s water, as the state’s diversion of the river is said to affect its flow in Goa. Environmentalists are up in arms over a number of government projects they say will benefit the coal-mining business at the cost of the state’s ecology. Yet, Sawant soldiers on as he presides over a BJP government that now has, for the first time in the party’s history in Goa, 28 of the state’s 40 MLAs. In an exclusive interview with KIRAN D. TARE, Sawant outlines how he proposes to overcome the spate of crises. Excerpts:
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April 05, 2021
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THE LAST LEG
Mamata plays the lone, injured warrior against the full might of the BJP as West Bengal enters a do-or-die electoral contest
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April 05, 2021
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THE ACE HUSTLER
After picking up silver at the Asian Championships in February 2020, the pandemic slowed Bajrang Punia’s training considerably. The freestyle wrestler had to train without a sparring partner and with his Georgian coach, Shako Bendinitis, screaming instructions over the internet. Towards the end of 2020, Punia married wrestler Sangeeta Phogat, after which he travelled to the US for training and an invitational tournament.
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April 05, 2021
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MIRED IN THE TAPES
RAJASTHAN PHONE- TAPPING ROW
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April 05, 2021
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A Tale of Two Spaniards
A new rivalry between two Spanish coaches is coming to define the Indian Super League
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April 05, 2021
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A HANDFUL OF PROBLEMS FOR PINARAYI VIJAYAN
Though polls suggest the Kerala chief minister will win a consecutive term, the LDF also faces challenges
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April 05, 2021
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The Cities Of Woe
By 2050, at least 30 Indian cities will face a grave water risk, according to the WWF. The problems range from poor management of water sources, contaminated supplies, leaky distribution networks and vast volumes of untreated wastewater being poured into India’s rivers
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March 29, 2021
India Today
HOTSHEET
PICK OF THE MONTH
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March 29, 2021
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A TURBULENT TRIANGLE
There is no argument in India that Nepal is a part of the Indian subcontinent. In Nepal, though, the defining issue is of identity vis-à-vis India, with Nepali nationalism basically being anti-Indianism.
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