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Shivakumar’s Delhi visit triggers fresh speculation about leadership change after Budget Session

Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar’s visit to New Delhi has once again triggered speculation, linking it to a possible leadership change in the state, after the Budget Session of the Legislature. According to official and party sources, Shivakumar left for the national capital with AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge from Kalaburagi on Sunday…

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Columnist M S Shanker, Orange News 9

Nari Shakti in Uniform

In the last decade, India has witnessed a quiet but decisive transformation within its defence establishment. Under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the NDA government has pushed a series of reforms that have steadily expanded the role of women across the Indian Armed Forces and paramilitary services. What was once a symbolic presence has now…

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4 TTP terrorists shot dead in Pak’s Punjab

Lahore: Pakistan’s Law enforcement agencies on Sunday night shot dead four terrorists of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Punjab province. According to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab Police, Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab (some 400 km from Lahore) narrowly escaped a major terrorist attack as four militants belonging to “Fitna Al-Khawarij” (TTP) were…

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Columnist-M.S.Shanker

Dynasty Double Standards

For over a decade, the loudest political slogan from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), has been the promise to dismantle dynastic politics in India. The party positioned itself as the ideological opposite of family-run parties and repeatedly mocked the “parivarvaad” culture of rivals such as the Congress….

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