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UDF manifesto for Kerala polls anchors on five ‘Indira guarantees’, welfare schemes & campus reforms

The five promises, announced by Congress's Rahul Gandhi last month, include Rs 1,000 monthly allowance for female students, health insurance scheme & interest-free loans for youth.

Uddhav’s first MLC term broke the Thackeray glass ceiling, but was a lost opportunity

The Shiv Sena leader entered the Maharashtra Upper House by compulsion, governed through crisis, and left behind a record his own supporters call an opportunity lost.

‘Throw TMC into Bay of Bengal’, Amit Shah campaigns for Suvendu Adhikari ahead of Bengal polls

The Union Home Minister urged the people of West Bengal to vote fearlessly and remove the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC from power.

Govt signals plan to roll out women’s reservation, Oppn asks ‘why ahead of state elections’

The law reserves one-third of seats for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies. While it was passed three years ago, it was not implemented due to pending delimitation.

TVK chief Vijay files nomination from Trichy East assembly seat

Vijay is contesting from two seats, Perambur and Trichy East, against DMK’s incumbent MLAs RD Sekar and Inigo S Irudayaraj, respectively. Perambur was a CPI(M) bastion till 2016.

Kejriwal says 160 AAP workers ‘arrested’ in Gujarat, BJP rattled by party’s ‘growing popularity’

The AAP chief wrote a letter to Gujarat’s CM requesting a meeting to discuss the rising number of arrests involving his party's grassroots leaders in the last 48 hours.

In LDF’s Kerala manifesto, jobs, poverty eradication & pledge to address human-wildlife conflict

The manifesto outlined a 60-point programme with 950 proposals that aim to lift 5 lakh families out of poverty, expand infrastructure and increase jobs in the state.

‘Son’shine tale: Stalin’s rise is the story of DMK’s evolution—a dynastic elevation marked by friction

Stalin has his unique style of connecting with public, proving a calculated attempt to speak the language of the youth while reinforcing govt's flagship schemes. But challenges remain.

Marxist turncoats, signal to Ezhavas. Congress’ Kerala candidate list mixes risk with optimism

The major difference between 2021 and 2026 is that party leaders discussed each seat threadbare, including the caste, religious and gender permutations and combinations.

HS Phoolka: Advocate who devoted life to justice for 1984 riot victims joins BJP, trains guns at AAP

After wandering through AAP and flirting with Akalis, the Padma Shri lawyer says returning to BJP felt less like a new chapter and more like closing a circle.

On Camera

What Iran’s Hormuz play means for Malacca freedoms — and why India should be speaking up

The physical arteries of India's economic rise depend on a single legal principle that Iran's conduct during this crisis has put under serious pressure.

Stocks fall, oil prices climb as Trump issues fresh threat to Iran ahead of his deadline

Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.

Western theatre against Pakistan to be headed by IAF, Northern theatre under Army to focus on China

India's military to get Vice Chief of Defence Staff along with one Theatre Commander from each of three services, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.