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Monday, May 6, 2024
Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Modi biopic cleared with 11 cuts, scene of him monitoring anti-terror ops deleted

The Central Board of Film Certification has also told the producers to delete apparently communal dialogues and a scene mocking Manmohan Singh.

No jobs data from Niti Aayog for now, numbers expected only after Lok Sabha polls

Niti Aayog had promised to release the final statistics on jobs after a leaked NSSO report pegged unemployment at a 45-year high.

Advani & Joshi sidelined again, now they’re both out of BJP’s Lok Sabha poll campaign

L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were neither given tickets for Lok Sabha polls nor were they invited to BJP's manifesto release. 

These are the winners & losers of the BJP and Congress election manifestos

Infrastructure, manufacturers, farmers & the poor stand to gain irrespective of who wins. Loan defaulters will be biggest losers.

‘Flyover minister’ doesn’t need Modi support for re-election. Name Gadkari is good enough

Union minister Nitin Gadkari is campaigning in Nagpur for his second term from the constituency, and infrastructure development work is his only election pitch.

BJP’s unfulfilled promise of ‘achhe din’ and the politics of populism

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Security forces don’t want J&K govt’s 2-day highway ban, want convoy movement on all days

Through a controversial order issued last week, the J&K administration has barred the Jammu-Srinagar highway to civilians for two days every week.

From Modi’s Eleven in 2014 to only NaMo in 2019, the Modi-fication of BJP is now complete

As BJP goes into 2019 polls, one man leads the army. Everyone else is a lieutenant, far diminished in stature in comparison to PM Modi.

BJP’s last-minute release of manifesto betrays its contempt for voters

Election Commission will do well to mandate that all parties release their manifestos on the same day & much before elections.

BJP manifesto the voice of an isolated man, says Rahul Gandhi in a dig at PM Modi

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said his party's manifesto was created through discussion with million of Indians, unlike the BJP manifesto.

On Camera

Azad, Antony, Geetha—6 candidates to watch in 2024. Their win can reshape politics in states

While Chandra Shekhar Azad is a streetfighter who has caught the fancy of Dalit youth, Anil Antony is the face of the BJP’s fresh social engineering attempt.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.