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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Former civil servants urge EC to stall release of Modi biopic until election results

The retired civil servants said the biopic will ‘create enormous electoral mileage for the PM and the party in power’.

PM Modi to launch re-election blitz from Meerut, round up campaign with 150 rallies

PM Modi's first rally will be held at Daurala village in the Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha constituency Thursday. He will also hold rallies in Uttarakhand and J&K the same day.

4 Naxals killed in encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma

The encounter comes amid an escalation of anti-Naxal operations in the forests of the Bastar division ahead of Lok Sabha elections.

Modi govt’s data war: Economists & accountants are fighting for political power like rivals

An impression that you can replace economists with accountants or vice versa will undermine the value of expertise in government policymaking.

Gorkha groups pick sides as BJP & Trinamool get set for tight Darjeeling contest

BJP replaces sitting MP S.S. Ahluwalia amid murmurs that he wasn't around while Trinamool Congress backs local Darjeeling MLA Amar Singh Rai. 

Congress makes Milind Deora chief of Mumbai unit, gives Sanjay Nirupam the seat he wants

Sanjay Nirupam was not popular among senior Mumbai Congress leaders, while Deora is. Nirupam will now fight the Lok Sabha polls from Mumbai North West.

Rahul Gandhi’s Rs 72,000 income pledge: Are populist freebies the only way to win elections?

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday pledged to give Rs 12,000 per month to every family in India if the Congress is voted to power in the 2019 elections.

NCP sticks to tried and tested formula in manifesto, promises nationwide farm loan waiver

The NCP manifesto also promises free education to girls — from kindergarten to post-graduation — and a minimum 100 days of guaranteed jobs for the youth.

Supreme Court wants more random physical verification of VVPAT slips in elections

The top court also told the Election Commission that no institution should insulate itself from improvement, including the judiciary.

For RSS, this Lok Sabha election is more about defeating the radical Left

The RSS is looking at the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as one of the crucial battles which will have an impact on its larger war of ideology with the Left.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

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

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

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.

‘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.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.