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2 months ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Suwa Lal Jangu
The resignation of N. Biren Singh as the Chief Minister of strife-torn Manipur is long overdue, and by the same token, offers little hope of any significant turnaround at the ground level. Things could have been much different if Singh had accepted responsibility for the unrest and violence that have rocked the State over the last 22 months.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suwa Lal Jangu |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Abir Dasgupta |Vaishna Roy
The ground reality in Manipur right now is intercommunity distrust, unrest, and division. There is no enthusiasm in either the Meitei or Kuki communities about the election. The Manipuri people are more worried about their future than about electoral politics. The Kuki-Zomi, Meitei, and Naga, the three major communities, have been polarised and counter-polarised among political parties and candidates, and all three groups have different political goals.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Suwa Lal Jangu |Mitali Mukherjee |T.K. Rajalakshmi
Recruitment drives held over the last week of January, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and Rohtak, Haryana, for Indian workers to undertake construction and caregiver jobs in Israel have captured global attention. Thousands of job aspirants, who had either registered online or just walked in for interviews, were seen as vying for 10,000 advertised positions to be filled from each of these locations.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suwa Lal Jangu |R. Ramachandran |Govind Krishnan V |Manohar Shetty
The India-Myanmar border is witnessing unrest on both sides: in Myanmar, ethnic communities are fighting for their civil and political rights and a democratic government, while on the Indian side, ethnic communities are fighting for the protection of their sociocultural and economic rights. The porous border between the two nations is at the root of the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur, and the illegal activities, including smuggling, going on there.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Suwa Lal Jangu |C.P. Chandrasekhar
Two days before his daughter’s wedding ceremony at the Sree Krishna temple in Guruvayur, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended, actor-politician Suresh Gopi, who is the BJP’s prospective candidate from Thrissur in the upcoming Lok Sabha election, arrived with his wife and daughters at the city’s Our Lady of Lourdes Metropolitan Cathedral. Their visit was to seek blessings and present a golden crown to the Virgin Mary as an offering before the wedding.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vaishna Roy |Manohar Shetty |Suwa Lal Jangu
Every Saturday, Puducherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy, who is from the All India N.R. Congress (AINRC), visits the Appa Paithiyasamy temple next to JIPMER hospital, engages in a deep conversation with God, meditates, and serves food to about 300 people. Over the many years that he has been in and out of power, Rangasamy, the longest serving Chief Minister of Puducherry, has been insistent that he adhere to this ritual. All else, however important, will have to wait during those three hours.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | R.K. Radhakrishnan |Vaishna Roy |Manohar Shetty |Suwa Lal Jangu
“It was a massive procession with chants of Jai Shri Ram. But I did not participate in it,” said a resident of Nanganallur, a Chennai suburb. He was referring to a procession along the streets of the suburb after the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. “I have never seen such a huge procession in this area before,” he said, using Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shri Ram interchangeably when describing the fervour and the party associated with it.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ayesha Minhaz |Ashutosh Sharma |T.K. Rajalakshmi |Suwa Lal Jangu
The Congress managed to stun the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana by obtaining a simple majority in the election to the 119-member Assembly held in November, ruining the hat-trick hopes of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR. The Congress won 64 seats, while the BRS bagged 39 and the BJP eight.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Sanjay Kumar |Suwa Lal Jangu |Ayesha Minhaz
On the face of it, the Congress can console itself that it broke new ground and won Telangana and that the five Assembly contests garnered it more votes overall than it did for the BJP. The Congress got 9.5 lakh more votes in its total of 4,90,77,907 votes as against the 4,81,33,463 won by the BJP. But the Congress won one State that has 17 Lok Sabha seats while the BJP won three States that, between them, have 65 Lok Sabha seats.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
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