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Brand Modi clicks in Madhya Pradesh as voters have ‘strong’ reasons to support him

Voters across MP cite various reasons for why they want to see Modi return as PM, and the opposition’s ‘chowkidar chor hai’ narrative has fallen flat.

Election Commission slaps notice on Pragya Thakur for campaigning despite ban

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has been barred from campaigning for her remark on Babri Masjid.

In Haryana, new parties like JJP & fresh alliances have changed equations on all 10 seats

Old powers like Congress, INLD & BJP are facing a tough challenge from the Jannayak Janata Party and its ally AAP, and the Lok Suraksha Party with the BSP.

As another AAP MLA defects to Congress in Punjab, party set to lose main opposition tag

Ropar MLA Amarjeet Singh Sandoa joined Congress Saturday, reducing AAP’s strength in the assembly to 11. SAD-BJP with 18 MLAs could stake claim to LOP post.

West Bengal to vote for 7 Lok Sabha seats in fifth phase on 6 May

The fate of 83 candidates will be decided in this phase of the elections.

Arvind Kejriwal slapped by man at Moti Nagar roadshow, AAP alleges BJP set it up

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was in an open jeep when a man jumped onto the vehicle and slapped him before being pulled away.

Architect of BJP’s Tripura win is now in Bengal to wrest Mamata’s Kolkata bastions

Sunil Deodhar, a former RSS pracharak, has been moved to Kolkata from Andhra Pradesh, where he serves as the BJP's state co-in-charge.

‘A new PM everyday’: Amit Shah takes a jibe at opposition alliance at BJP rally in MP

Naming the various opposition leaders, BJP chief Amit Shah questioned how a country could be run by a leaderless alliance.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi slams ‘completely biased’ Election Commission in fresh attack

In a press conference Saturday, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Election Commission was buckling under pressure from the BJP-led govt.

Congress makes people wait so long they get tired: Akhilesh Yadav on AAP alliance

Akhilesh Yadav speaks to ThePrint from the UP campaign trail, weighing in on the prospects of a third-front government and Mayawati as PM

On Camera

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?