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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Elections

Sensex has best gain in months as BJP leads in Karnataka

The BSE Sensex rose 1.1 per cent to 35,933, set for the biggest advance since 5 April. The gains damped price swings, with the India Volatility Index tumbling 11 per cent.

The seven-step Narendra Modi playbook for election campaigning

The narrative of Modi’s campaigns across many states has been similar, as have the different stages that every campaign seems to include.

Now, Rahul promises Congress will listen to Karnataka’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ in its manifesto

The grand old party has promised the creation of 15-20 lakh jobs annually for the next 5 years, and empower farmers, women and children.

Congress playing caste politics in Karnataka, we only care about development, says Modi

The Prime minister speaks to BJP workers in Karnataka by video conference, tells them Congress offers lollipops to caste groups whenever there are elections. 

The youth needs to see politics as a way of life, not just as a career

The youth must become the torchbearers to free our country from all social and political ills by practicing politics.

Daring gamble to sell Air India hits turbulence in test for Modi

A plan to sell the flag carrier that's running grand losses is facing headwinds even before it can take off.

Modi puts inflation goals at risk in bid to meet promises to farmers

His government is seeking to pay farmers at least 50 percent more than the cost of their produce which is expected to fan prices at a time when oil is surging, putting further pressure on bond yields.

In Karnataka, Amit Shah has finally met his match in Siddaramaiah

The BJP is fighting this election as a national party while the Congress is playing it like a regional force. 

All you need to know about the new ‘minister babas’ of Madhya Pradesh

One of them is a tech-savvy seer and another a former model who travels in SUVs. But all of them have been vocal about saving Narmada.

Before polls, Modi government spends record $18 billion on developing roads

The government plans to construct 83,677 km of roads by 2022 to boost economic growth and employment.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

How Op Mahadev unfolded: A day-by-day account of how the net closed in on Pahalgam terrorists

New Delhi: The killing of the three LeT terrorists behind the Pahalgam massacre was the culmination of an operation that started immediately after the...

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.