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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
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The author is a Delhi-based commentator and analyst
    ‘Precision targeting’ is the BJP’s war strategyOpinion
    ‘Precision targeting’ is the BJP’s war strategy

    BJP believes that it is Mr Modi who has to play the role of the helmsman in leading the party to victory.

    23 March 2019 7:27 AM IST

    To ally or not to ally: A battle within CongressOpinion
    To ally or not to ally: A battle within Congress

    The war within the party is not due to any extraneous pressures. It is about core beliefs about what the party should...

    19 March 2019 2:05 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Will Balakot airstrike be Modi's winning card?

    The Pulwama suicide attack is part of a running battle with jihadi groups like the JeM and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT).

    11 March 2019 1:16 AM IST

    The World Bank brokered the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan after many years of intense negotiations to allocate the waters of the Indus river basin.Opinion
    After Pulwama, Balakot: Tone down the rhetoric

    India will still have to fight the war against terror groups like the JeM and the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT).

    4 March 2019 12:14 AM IST

    Union home minister Rajnath Singh shoulders the coffin of a slain CRPF jawan in Budgam on Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Pulwama's aftershocks in run-up to 2019 polls

    The Opposition parties have no choice but to break the temporary political truce that was forged at the all-party...

    19 Feb 2019 1:03 AM IST

    State budgets a better view of the economyOpinion
    State budgets a better view of the economy

    The achievements and failures, the contradictions and anomalies are spread out in both the Central and state budgets.

    11 Feb 2019 12:17 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Poll-eve Modinomics: Selling future dreams

    The mood in the BJP is one of complacence and confidence, and perhaps it cannot be faulted.

    2 Feb 2019 2:04 AM IST

    YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and TRS working committee president K.T. Rama Rao at a meeting at the formers residence at Lotus Pond, in Hyderabad, on Wednesday. (R. Pavan)Opinion
    Moves, counter-moves in coalition calculations

    At ground zero, Mr Naidu, Mr Rao and Mr Reddy are fighting to control their own territory.

    19 Jan 2019 7:30 AM IST

    Though the religious minorities are in principle included in the new category, as far as educational opportunity goes, they cannot take advantage of it because under Article 29 of the Constitution, 50 per cent of the seats in minority-run institutions are reserved for them. (Photo: DC)Opinion
    New EWS quota' riddled with many ambiguities

    The issue is complicated at many levels and the BJP will be caught in the coils of its own cleverness.

    11 Jan 2019 8:09 AM IST

    United we stand: A galaxy of opposition leaders across the country had converged at the swearing-in ceremony of Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy after the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) successfully thwarted alleged attempts by the BJP to poach their legislators to reach the majority mark in the state.Sunday Chronicle
    Regional parties have their limitations

    The inference is clear: An alliance with the TD holds good only in Andhra Pradesh, where it has a good hold.

    6 Jan 2019 12:13 AM IST

    on the house: Congress president Rahul Gandhi was mocked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for asking him to stand for a hug. Mr Modi said the Congress leader was in a hurry to unseat him.Sunday Chronicle
    Quixotic Rahul Gandhi may well pull out a victory

    The BJP is perplexed with a Congress president who speaks the language of the post-globalisation yuppie.

    6 Jan 2019 12:11 AM IST

    M.J. AkbarOpinion
    A year of scandals, controversies fizzles out

    Had a Congress government done what the Narendra Modi government had done, then a BJP in Opposition would have gone to...

    2 Jan 2019 4:55 AM IST

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