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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

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.