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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Yeddyurappa diaries: Time for Supreme Court to clearly note what constitutes evidence

In the 1991 Jain brothers hawala case, the Supreme Court had said that corroborating evidence is a must to convict the person named in the diaries.

Political parties dominate India’s national elections, not candidates

Number of candidates in each constituency has grown rapidly since Independence but an independent has a very small likelihood of winning a Lok Sabha seat.

Tejashwi Yadav puts alliance dharma over family ties, will campaign for Congress in UP

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s sister Raj Lakshmi is married to Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grand-nephew, but he will campaign against the Samajwadi Party in UP.

Congress announces 9th list for Lok Sabha polls, Karti Chidambaram to fight from Sivaganga

Corruption-accused businessman Karti Chidambaram is the son of former union finance minister P. Chidambaram, who has been the Sivaganga MP seven times.

Sapna Chaudhary says she has not joined Congress, claims pictures with Priyanka are old

A day after the news that Sapna Chaudhary has joined Congress, the singer-dancer said she is not with any party and will not campaign for any political party in LS elections.

Congress lets go of Godda seat, seals alliance in Jharkhand

Congress will contest 7 seats while Jharkhand Mukti Morcha will contest 4 and JVM(P) will fight 2. RJD is being convinced to fight one seat.

BJP veteran Shanta Kumar’s six decade-long political journey comes to an unpleasant end

The BJP didn’t give Shanta Kumar, the 84-year-old former CM of Himachal Pradesh, a chance to defend the Kangra seat, signalling the end of the road for him.

Only L.K.Advani can comment now: Uma Bharti on BJP’s decision to not field him in 2019 polls

Heaping praises on the veteran leader, union minister Uma Bharti said that L.K.Advani never craved for any position in his long political career

Akhilesh Yadav to contest Lok Sabha polls from Azamgarh, Azam Khan to fight from Rampur

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will join four family members in the fray, while senior leader Azam Khan will fight his first Lok Sabha election.

Mulayam Singh Yadav name absent from SP list of star campaigners

Akhilesh Yadav to contest from Azamgarh, the seat represented in the Lok Sabha by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who has shifted to Mainpuri in this election

On Camera

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

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

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.