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‘Do all aircraft disappear when it rains’: Rahul on PM Modi’s Balakot cloud cover remark

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that cloud cover helped the IAF evade Pakistani radars during the Balakot strikes.

With Yogi as CM, his Hindu Yuva Vahini has all but disappeared from Gorakhpur

Gradual diminishing of the Hindu Yuva Vahini, founded by UP CM Yogi Adityanath, is one of the reasons why the Gorakhpur election is no longer the same for BJP.

‘35% of first-time BJP MPs dropped as party was unhappy with their performance’

According to data analysed by ThePrint, BJP has not given a ticket to 55 of its 158 first-time MPs. Party says many won in 2014 'riding on Modi wave'.

AAP’s MLA Amanatullah Khan booked for allegedly assaulting a man

Supporters of AAP's Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan allegedly assaulted and threatened a man because for not supporting Khan

Shiv Sena not a misogynist party, I’m here to break that idea, says Priyanka Chaturvedi

Former Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi, who joined Shiv Sena in April, says she identifies with Sena stand on plastic ban & teaching women self-defence.

How security forces ensured a peaceful Lok Sabha election in troubled Kashmir

Voter turnout may have been dismal in Kashmir but Lok Sabha polls passed off without any major incidents of violence, thanks to a slew of security measures.

KCR to meet Stalin today but DMK still to warm up to federal front idea

DMK leader says chief Stalin expected to use meeting to convince KCR to back Congress alliance. Today's meeting is a second attempt by Telangana CM to call on Stalin.    

Why no one’s talking about Punjab’s drug problem in these elections

In the 2017 assembly polls, Congress & AAP had gone to town accusing the SAD-BJP govt of patronising the drug trade. But everyone is silent this time.

Free India’s first terrorist was a Hindu, he killed Gandhi: Kamal Haasan

Actor & politician Kamal Haasan said at a rally that terrorism in India started with Nathuram Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi.

Every national party wants a pie of Bengal — state’s 42 seats have record 195 contestants

ThePrint analyses electoral data compiled by PRS Legislative Research to see where candidates are coming from in this hotly-contested Lok Sabha poll.

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Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?