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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s near clean sweep in the recent five-state Assembly elections, especially Uttar Pradesh, suggests that the year-long farm law controversy did not impact it as much as analysts had initially suggested. This points to a possible opportunity to revive these progressive laws but with the crucial difference that the Centre must take the states on board first, writes A K Bhattacharya. Read it here

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Harsh V Pant and Shashank Mattoo assess the progress in the recent Indo-Japan talks and suggest that the two countries have taken recent rifts over divergent stands