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Milkmen delivering BJP message, ChatGPT, WhatsApp blitz— BL Santhosh’s masterplan for UP 2024

BJP organisational gen secy BL Santhosh came up with ‘innovative’ ways to expand reach and counter opposition narrative at a review meeting for UP Lok Sabha preparations last week.

‘Bid to capture BMC’ — Why BJP minister’s office at civic body HQ has Oppn up in arms

Mumbai (suburbs) Guardian Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha is 1st minister in 75 yrs to have an office at BMC building. Ex-BJP corporators allowed to use space for public outreach.

Annamalai to ride ‘simhavahanam’ across TN as he ‘exposes evil DMK’ in BJP’s 200-day yatra

With about 10 months to go for 2024 Lok Sabha polls, state BJP plans padayatra, set to start on 28 July from Rameshwaram in presence of Amit Shah, to reach voters across Tamil Nadu.

Punjab Congress objects to party allying with AAP at national level — ‘will have detrimental effect’

Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa has conveyed his objections to party high command, says any alliance with AAP will have 'detrimental trickle-down effect' on Punjab state unit.

Congress woos Dhirendra Shastri ahead of MP polls with mega event for controversial ‘miracle-maker’

MP Congress, led by Kamal Nath, organising 3-day kathavachan (discourse) programme involving Shastri in August in Nath’s home district Chhindwara. Congress says event not political.

JD(S) will contest 2024 Lok Sabha polls independently, says Deve Gowda

Amid the recent friendly relations with BJP, the JD(S) supremo maintained that the party will decide its future course of action based on the prevailing situation.

‘Like East India Company, Indian Mujahideen,’ Modi jibe at Oppn INDIA amid stir over Manipur

The Opposition has held up Parliament over demands for a detailed discussion on Manipur and a statement on it by the Prime Minister.

Congress MP slams BJP over delay in awarding ST status to 6 indigenous communities in Assam

Stating that BJP failed to fulfil poll promise made in 2014 Lok Sabha polls and 2016 state polls, Nawgong MP Pradyut Bordoloi says delay exposes party's ‘insincerity and indifference'.

2 ex-MPs, 2 former SP ministers among BJP’s 18 new inductions in UP from across parties

These include 11 from Samajwadi Party, 5 from Bahujan Samaj Party & 1 each from Congress & Rashtriya Lok Dal. Shalini Yadav, who fought against Modi from Varanasi in 2019, too, joins BJP.

‘Either President’s Rule in Manipur, or CM should go,’ says MP from BJP-led NDA ally MNF

PM Modi should have spoken on the Manipur issue much much earlier, says MNF Lok Sabha MP C Lalrosanga. He claims that he was indirectly told not to discuss it at NDA meeting.

On Camera

India’s aviation crisis is all about too big to tame

Nobody is safe in a market where competition is stunted and choice limited. For the industry, meaningful reform will have to start with the government itself.

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.