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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

For grandson, Sukh Ram switches loyalty yet again, but latest move likely to dent his image

Ashwani Sharma -
Sukh Ram, 92, a veteran Himachal politician credited with spearheading India’s telecom revolution, has joined Congress with grandson Ashray Sharma, 32, in tow.

EC must act right now if it wants to maintain credibility

ThePrint Team -
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India takes space leap, shoots down satellite 300 km away: Modi

ThePrint Team -
PM Modi announced that India has become only the fourth country after US, Russia, China to have this capability.

Actor Urmila Matondkar joins Congress, likely to be fielded from Mumbai North

Neelam Pandey -
Urmila Matondkar will meet Congress president Rahul Gandhi. She is expected to address a press conference at 2 pm.

Congress party’s minimum-income scheme for the poor is short on funding details

Vrishti Beniwal -
The plan has left economists wondering how this would be rolled out without breaching the budget deficit goal of 3.4% of GDP for the fiscal year starting April. 

Not Modi vs Rahul, this poll will be defined by satraps, say Prannoy Roy & Dorab Sopariwala

Manasi Phadke -
BJP is way ahead of Congress in nurturing alliances with regional leaders, psephologists Prannoy Roy and Dorab R. Sopariwala say at Off The Cuff.

Rahul Gandhi is as polarising as Modi but Indian liberals won’t use that word for him

Rama Lakshmi -
As Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi battle it out for the 2019 elections, Indian liberals’ hold over language will also be severely tested.

Indian women a step closer to breaking glass ceiling in politics

Shruti Srivastava -
Quotas for women candidates in BJD & Trinamool are expected to help give a final push to reserving 33% Lok Sabha seats for women.

Tallying votes with VVPAT at one booth in every seat is more than needed, experts tell EC

Sanya Dhingra -
Experts from the Indian Statistical Institute have opined that the EC must consider the sample size, not the sample proportion, to verify votes.

In BJP’s 10th list, party swaps seats of the mother-son duo of Maneka & Varun Gandhi

Ruhi Tewari -
Uttar Pradesh minister and MLA Rita Bahuguna Joshi, formerly a top Congress leader in the state, has been fielded from Allahabad.
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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

AG Sulzberger -
Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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