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This Gujarat MP has the largest victory margin in 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Manasi Phadke -
C.R. Patil beat Congress' Dharmeshbhai Patel by 6.9 lakh votes at Navsari in South Gujarat and nearly beat the all-time victory margin record of 6.96 lakh votes.
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Modi has to resolve this family problem in Punjab while picking his Cabinet

Chitleen K Sethi -
As one of the BJP's oldest allies, the Akalis are set to get a cabinet berth but their only two MPs are husband-wife duo Sukhbir and Harsimrat Badal.
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Congress-NCP could have won 7 more Maharashtra seats, but this party played spoilsport

Manasi Phadke -
Congress-led UPA could have scored 2 more seats in Vidarbha, 3 in western Maharashtra, and 2 in Marathwada, if not for Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA.
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Even if Congress and AAP had joined hands, BJP would sweep Delhi

Neelam Pandey -
According to EC data, the combined vote-share of Congress and AAP in Delhi was less than that of the BJP in each of the seven seats.
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The BJP strategy that helped Narendra Modi march past 300

Ruhi Tewari -
BJP decided to drop several of its sitting MPs, and according to a detailed analysis by ThePrint, NDA won 93% of such seats.
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Rahul Gandhi ‘resignation drama’ to overshadow Congress stock-taking meet today

Neelam Pandey -
The Congress’ apex body is meeting to analyse its second successive Lok Sabha rout, but senior leaders don’t expect much to come out of the meeting.
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Priyanka’s presence did Congress little good but helped BJP gain 5 seats in eastern UP

D.K. Singh -
The Congress just about improved its 2014 vote share of 5.39% to 7.96% in the 41 seats of eastern UP but its presence stopped SP-BSP from winning in 5 seats.
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SP spokespersons barred from TV debates, become first casualties of party’s poll debacle

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Samajwadi Party top leadership is believed to be upset with spokespersons for failing to effectively articulate the party's vision.
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Why AAP finished third in Delhi and what that means for 2020 assembly polls

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
The fall in AAP’s vote-share will make it tougher for Arvind Kejriwal’s party to hold on to its base in next year’s Delhi assembly elections.
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Amarinder blames Sidhu for ‘poor’ Congress showing in Punjab’s urban areas

Chitleen K Sethi -
Amarinder Singh & Navjot Singh Sidhu, two of the Congress' most prominent faces in Punjab, have been at loggerheads since the week before Punjab voted on 19 May.
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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

MA Venkata Rao -
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

NJ 9842 launched the Siachen conflict. Where is it actually located?

Gen Z and the art of the side quest—why purposelessness is the ultimate flex

Economy

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

Hallie Gu -
War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Defence

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

Adurthi Ashwin Swarup -
From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

National Interest

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

Shekhar Gupta -
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.

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