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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Why Odisha wants more and more of Naveen Patnaik, it’s 4-time chief minister

Naveen Patnaik, the Odisha CM, continues to hold sway in the state through a carefully-cultivated clean image, pro-poor policies and media management.

Finally! World’s worst air emerges as a Lok Sabha election issue

BJP, Congress, AAP have all pledged to combat air pollution, unlike in 2014 when no party manifesto mentioned clean air or pollution.

‘No other like Modi,’ they say in MP’s Mahakoshal after voting Congress in assembly polls

The Mahakoshal region accounts for six of MP's 29 Lok Sabha seats. Five went to the BJP in 2014, while one elected Kamal Nath for a ninth term.

Ray’s ‘Shatranj Ke Khilari’ asked difficult political questions & is an election must-watch

Ray’s 1977 classic, made during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, is a story of a cunning political checkmate.

Kerala candidates hit Lok Sabha campaign trail again, to clean up the mess they made

Now that all of Kerala’s 20 Lok Sabha seats have voted, a few candidates are leading campaigns to remove the deluge of promotional material.

Is it right to shame NOTA voters and those who won’t vote?

NOTA or none of the above is the option given to voters to reject the candidates in her/his constituency.

Modi govt’s biggest failure has been in tackling unemployment, says Manmohan Singh

Former PM Manmohan Singh also said that despite having a full majority, Modi govt couldn’t achieve UPA’s 8.1% average growth rate in five years.

‘I am very much alive’, Mani Shankar Aiyar tells trolls claiming he ‘died in Balakot’

With trolls poking fun that he had been killed in the Balakot strikes, Aiyar says he has been campaigning in the south, but ‘BJP doesn’t understand Tamil’.

Pragya Thakur’s remarks on Karkare were ‘very wrong’, says Maharashtra CM Fadnavis

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis also says Congress ‘cooked up’ term Hindu terror for vote-bank politics when terrorism was at his state’s doorstep.

Felt abandoned, insignificant after BJP picked Sunny Deol for Gurudaspur: Kavita Khanna

Kavita Khanna's late husband and BJP leader Vinod Khanna had won the Gurudaspur constituency four times.

On Camera

Tirupati controversy shows temples can’t run as public sector units. They must be privatised

A private temple could make crores by selling better laddus and investing in goshalas and captive production units to control quality.

After a brief surge, private investment & hiring has again turned cautious. Focus is on cutting debt

Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.

Indian envoy in Oman dons Army combat print for photo ops, sparks controversy

Ambassador Amit Narang wore combat uniform at closing ceremony of India-Oman joint military exercise. Only serving personnel can wear service uniforms, say veterans.

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?