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Tejasvi Surya, BJP’s rising star from Bengaluru South lacked experience, but made up with his loyalty for Modi
If Tejasvi Surya promised to improve Bengaluru’s pathetic civic conditions and become an effective voice of Karnataka in the Lok Sabha, it was all secondary to his main campaign surrounding Modi → Read More
Yeti another whodunit: Xi Jinping does a 'Dr No', but Narendra Modi turns abominable snowman into trojan horse
Narendra Modi looked hard at the photograph of the make-believe Yeti of the Chinese on the table in front of him. He explained: “When the Indian Army captured the so-called Yeti, I got an idea. I told Ajit Doval to plant every imaginable kind of bug inside the robot and put it back where it was found. Only after that, the Chinese took the Yeti away. The army is tweeting about the footprints only… → Read More
Karnataka MLAs poaching row: BJP's 'Operation Lotus' fails to bloom, but threat to Congress-JDS coalition persists
State BJP president BS Yeddyurappa is keeping his hopes up of ousting the government so that he can replace Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy → Read More
Kerala floods: State was not only late in waking up to the calamity but is also ill-equipped to deal with it
A splendid network of rivers, backwaters and hills makes Kerala a dream state, but this dream can also quickly turn into a nightmare when disaster strikes. → Read More
Karnataka urban local body elections: As 'allies' Congress, JD(S) run into differences, agenda of defeating BJP lies forgotten
Congress and JD(S) have been promising to fight the BJP together with the avowed agenda of extricating the country from the evil clutches of communalism, but they are fighting each other over one issue and another → Read More
Bengaluru potholes: Weeding out corruption from road making is a must before hoping for smooth streets
To fill Bengaluru's potholes, the mayor suggested setting up a separate BBMP department for it with its own chief engineer. → Read More
Lateral hiring: Modi govt only making transparent a process which earlier depended on politicians' whims
It’s not as if Narendra Modi went to bed one night last week, dreamed of “lateral entry”, woke up the next morning and put in an advertisement. → Read More
Ex-president attends RSS event: For Opposition, 'Modi vs Mukherjee' may sound better than 'Modi vs nobody'
The hair-pulling over Pranab Mukherjee's visit to the RSS sanctum sanctorum has proved once again that Congress is a ‘bandwagon’ party. → Read More
Karnataka polls: HD Kumaraswamy wins trust vote, but unhappy Congress leaders indicate rough road ahead
An unequal alliance in which JD(S) keeps the chief minister’s slot with fewer than half the MLAs of Congress can only be equalled, to begin with, if Congress gets most of the key portfolios in the ministry, which Kumaraswamy will get around to constitute now. → Read More
Horses slam Rahul Gandhi for defaming them by referring to political trafficking as 'horse-trading'
Ever wondered how horses react when humans like Rahul Gandhi refer to political swaps as horse-trading? You're about to find out. → Read More
Karnataka govt formation: BS Yeddyurappa turns tail, but Congress basks in a mathematical victory that doesn't belong to it
After being Karnataka's chief minister for two action-packed days, BJP's BS Yeddyurappa decided to hang his boots instead of facing a floor test on Saturday. It was like a batsman, facing a tough asking rate in the last overs, retiring hurt instead of taking the incoming ball. → Read More
Karnataka polls: SC ruling to rush through floor test makes it tough for Yeddyurappa, but why is BJP so frantic?
The three judges of the Supreme Court had no choice on Friday other than to advance the deadline for BJP’s one-day-old Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. → Read More
Karnataka needs infrastructure and jobs, giving Lingayats separate religious status may backfire on Siddaramaiah
Karnataka is in desperate need for creation of infrastructure and jobs, not new religions → Read More
Cauvery river dispute will continue simmering if there is no credible mechanism to implement SC verdict
The Cauvery dispute has been all about sharing the water when rainfall is deficit, not when it's surplus. That's the reason why the dispute flares up only during poor monsoons, when water becomes scarce → Read More
Karnataka polls: Siddaramaiah goes for the kill with 'Tipu sword'; but does Adityanath have a surprise in store?
The Delhi chief minister’s mouth hung open in awe as Siddaramaiah inched towards Yeddyurappa’s look-alike and shook the sword. → Read More
Karnataka Assembly Election: BJP is taking a huge risk by relying on Yogi Adityanath's brand of Hindutva
The BJP seems to overestimate the role Hindutva could play in Karnataka. Hindutva was only one part of the BJP’s growth story in the state. → Read More
Ahead of Karnataka Assembly polls, coast is tense again as BJP and Congress play games with ‘fringe’ groups
In keeping with the post-1990s polarisation, Karnataka's coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have been the scenes of communal incidents, especially during the months before every election → Read More
If Indian politicos were to be awarded, Narendra Modi would be 2017's 'most voter-friendly', Rahul Gandhi the 'best Hindu'
An 80-member governing council of CIA comprising eminent Indians of all walks of life picked the best and worst Indians each year by majority vote, and Narendra Modi was the big winner → Read More
Assembly Election Results: For Indian journalists, poll punditry is now easier and quicker than instant noodles
There was a time when elections in India were almost one-horse races. There was no more a need for predicting election results than there was for forecasting the rising of sun in the east. → Read More
A reporter’s diary from Nandyal: From AK-47s and crude bombs in 1991 to outpouring of venom in 2017
Naidu should know by now that there is no one-size-fits-all recipe to win an election in any region at any time. In politics, one plus one seldom equals two. → Read More