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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Told through its slogans — BJP’s five-year journey in power & 2019 hopes

During its stint at the Centre, which began with 'Abki Baar Modi Sarkar', the BJP has designed a whole arsenal of slogans.

Despite repeated calls, Twitter CEO won’t appear before Parliamentary panel

CEO Jack Dorsey is sending Twitter's head of Public Policy, Colin Crowell, to face a Parliamentary panel on IT on 25 February.

He targeted Congress over corruption, but now Prashant Bhushan has turned its poll advisor

SC lawyer Prashant Bhushan, of late, has been meeting Congress leaders to share his inputs on the party's 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto.

EC wants curbs on Facebook, Twitter political ads, but that’s unlikely before Lok Sabha polls

The Election Commission has written to the law ministry seeking a check on political ads on Facebook and Twitter ahead of Lok Sabha elections.

Visit families of soldiers killed in Pulwama, be sensitive: Rahul Gandhi to party leaders

The Congress Thursday also attacked PM Modi for being "busy shooting for a film in Jim Corbett park" last week soon after the Pulwama attack.

PMK’s vote base among north Tamil Nadu’s Vanniyars could be key for AIADMK-BJP alliance

Political analysts believe the AIADMK's new alliance is based on pure arithmetic, and will ensure the DMK-Congress don't have an easy run to victory.

RJD and Congress to firm up Bihar seat sharing for Lok Sabha polls by next week

Bihar seat-sharing talks are stuck as RJD wants to contest from 20-22 of the state's 40 seats and leave 11 to Congress, but the latter wants 15 seats.

Why it makes sense for Rahul Gandhi & Congress to persist with Rafale as 2019 campaign issue

As with Bofors, big-ticket corruption — in this case, Rafale — is being emphasised to undermine stature of the leader leading a party's campaign.

Loan waiver for students could be part of Congress’ 2019 manifesto

The proposal is driven by concerns among students and the youth about higher education becoming too expensive, especially for the middle class.

AIADMK and BJP announce poll alliance in Tamil Nadu, saffron party to contest 5 seats

Earlier in the day, the AIADMK closed another poll deal with PMK, offering the Vanniyar-based party seven of 40 seats.

On Camera

Read the Kashmir verdict. It’s time to stop treating it like a national security crisis

Election after election has seen Kashmir’s people demonstrate that, like other Indians, they seek a future shaped by democratic rights and norms

RBI’s policy-setting body keeps rates unchanged for 10th straight time, changes stance to ‘neutral’

Change in stance signals possibility of rate cuts, potentially as early as December, depending on inflation trends & global economy. Growth projection for FY 2024-25 retained at 7.2%.

Massive in size & capable of heavyweight strikes. Russia’s S-70 Okhotnik is unlike any other drone

No clarity on whether it was shot down intentionally or accidentally.Some reports suggest that it was purposely brought down to prevent Ukrainians getting their hands on the drone.

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?