In the event of the BJP's poor performance in the assembly polls this year and in early 2025, Modi's hold will get further weakened because he will no longer remain the invincible electoral persona tightly controlling the machine at his disposal, asserts Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
The accused identified as Mohd Mustaqeem, originally from Balarampur, Uttar Pradesh, was also in touch with the IS entities of Kashmir, added sources.
The MEA said at Lumbini, the prime minister will visit the sacred Mayadevi temple to offer prayers.
Right now there are five Hindus occupying the top job in the world. Rishi Sunak will be the sixth.
Modi, who is in the Himalayan nation at the invitation of Deuba, is paying a day-long visit to Lumbini on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.
A Delhi court on Monday convicted four members of the prestigious President's Bodyguards in the six-year-old Buddha Jayanti Park gang rape case. Harpreet Singh and Satyender Singh were found guilty of raping a 17-year-old student of a Delhi University college while two others -- Kuldeep Singh and Manish Kumar -- were convicted for helping them commit the offence. The victim, who had gone with her boyfriend Ashish to the park near Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 6, 2003.
'The undiminished threat, therefore, has the potency of sustaining itself in multiple ways in the near and medium term.' 'The state agencies need to utilize innovative methods in countering radicalization and violent extremism to address this growing threat'.
The two IEDs he was found with were 'fully ready' and just needed to be activated with a timer, police said. Security was stepped up in the national capital and in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh following the arrest.
For India to endorse Nepal's Buddhist conference will be like sipping from a poisoned chalice, warns former RA&W official Jayadeva Ranade.
Rampant crime challenges the chief minister's promise to maintain law and order. But some say there are other forces at play.
'Despite living in a free nation for so many years, if atrocities like rapes, public flogging, social boycotts are faced by Dalits, then conversion is the only option.'
By removing Avinash Chander last week, the government has chosen to sacrifice the organisation's most potent symbol of success
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