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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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Topic: Elections

Why India’s election is among the world’s most expensive

Lok Sabha polls 2019 are estimated to cost Rs 500 billion -- 40% more than 2014. The jump is expected from social media, travel & advertising expenses.

A national security election gives Rahul Gandhi the perfect excuse to lose

The Congress is likely to perform poorly in the polls because Rahul Gandhi remains a pointless politician.

Pulwama changed election game for Modi so much it needn’t worry about EVM tampering charges

Post-Pulwama, the BJP has managed to push battlefield ethics on to the electoral field, except that the special restraint applies only to the opposition.

73 former IAS, IPS & IFS officers give EC a solution to EVM row, and it’s not paper ballot

The letter, which comes months before the Lok Sabha elections, includes as signatories former NSA Shivshankar Menon & former foreign secretary Nirupama Menon Rao.

Between Pappu and Prime Minister, this is where Rahul Gandhi stands today

Congress president Rahul Gandhi has ‘improved’, but some things about him have not changed.

India has emerged from the ‘fragile five’ to become world’s fastest economy, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the world now views India with ‘vishwas’, not as a nation about scams.

Ignorant voters and over-smart politicians: Why India votes the way it does

Half-truths are spread by way of manipulation and political points are scored right before elections.

Sorry urban voters, election 2019 is all about wooing the rural Indian

The political theatre has shifted to rural India ahead of the 2019 election.

Narendra Modi losing 2019 is now a real possibility

It’s the economy, stupid.

BJP lost the Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan states

There are limits to the communally charged politics of the BJP.

On Camera

Big win for Delhi factories as MCD scraps an extra layer of red tape for ease of doing business

Until now, units operating even in recognised industrial areas needed a separate factory licence. The move is expected to especially give a boost to small and medium enterprises.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.