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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

$19 billion fund head favours investing against the crowd in Indian poll season

Nilesh Shah says Karnataka polls will impact national elections in 2019. But hard to predict if India will re-elect majority govt.

Modi orders team to do math on new jobs to showcase success

To counter arguments on failed promises of creating jobs, Modi asks his team to produce a report card assessing his four years in power. 

Congress is asking these millennials to use postcards to ridicule Digital India

Asked why the Congress chose postcards to woo a generation raised on mobile phones and social media, the party said it was bid to highlight the “poor internet and mobile penetration in the state”.

Catch them while they’re young: Congress set to woo first time voters for mission 2019

According to an internal party report, the 2019 Lok Sabha election is expected to see an estimated 15 crore first-time voters, and the Congress has been brainstorming about how to woo them.  

PM Modi will meet his fall in the same middle class that voted him to power

Ironically, it was the same aspirant middle class with materialistic ambitions that had welcomed Dr Singh in 1991, but grew tired of him by 2014.

As fuel prices touch the sky, Modi govt doesn’t have any pretty options in poll year

Diesel, the most-used fuel in India is more expensive than ever before, and petrol prices also are hovering around record levels in several cities. Controls on diesel pricing were lifted four years ago, after freeing petrol rates first.

Coming to theatres near you: Rs 180-crore film on RSS scripted by ‘Bahubali’ screenwriter

Script cleared by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, the film is expected to be released ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Caught in controversies, Election Commission turns to 11 ex-chiefs for lessons before 2019

The 21 May meeting is being viewed as a damage-control exercise after some political parties questioned the credibility and independence of the Election Commission.

Snigdha Poonam’s book chronicles Narendra Modi’s rise, by repeating what has already been said

Talking about the woes of the possibly 'scarred generation' Dreamers hits hard on issues of social justice and development. The tales in Snigdha Poonam’s Dreamers are...

BJP keeps extending olive branch, Shiv Sena keeps swatting it away

CM Fadnavis and many other BJP leaders have made many unsuccessful overtures to miffed ally Sena. What’s behind these attempts and snubs?

On Camera

Moderate Democrat victories signal a bigger shift than Mamdani. The party is bouncing back

New York is America’s most cosmopolitan outpost, not its heartland. One must look at what happened elsewhere in the US on 4 November.

India’s services exports touching $400 bn—a quiet engine offsetting trade deficit

In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit. 

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.