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TopicHaryana polls

Topic: Haryana polls

Haryana civic polls: Prospects of Haryana becoming Gujarat for Congress are real

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

CWC meet: Congress refrains from demanding return to paper ballots, says entire poll process ‘compromised’

At the marathon meeting, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge asked how long party will contest state elections on national issues and with the help of national leaders.

Global media calls out Modi govt’s ‘failure’ on jobs front, looks at Piyush Goyal’s ‘showbiz personality’

Apple may be considering shifting some manufacturing back to China, notes international media. This speculation follows a fire at Tata Group’s Apple components plant in Hosur.

Haryana’s politics is entwined with its multiple regional identities. How they shape voter choices

Dominant communities such as the Bagri and Deswali Jats, Yadavs in Ahirwal and Meo Muslims in Mewat will determine which way the political winds blow in 5 October assembly elections.

BJP not capitalising on Article 370 abrogation in J&K, knows it’s no achievement—Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

1 deputy PM, 2 CMs, 5 MPs & 14 MLAs later, Chautala village still lags — ‘They don’t visit much’

As Haryana gears up to vote for Lok Sabha polls of 25 May & assembly polls later this year, residents of Chautala claim village has always been a victim of politics.

BJP switches to election mode in Haryana: Amit Shah rally, drive to clinch Chautala strongholds

Chautala bastion Sirsa & Hooda strongholds Sonipat, Rohtak selected by party under Lok Sabha Pravas Yojana. Four lakh panna pramukhs to reach out to 1.9 crore voters.

If BJP makes Gopal Kanda minister, there’ll be a zillion Geetikas, says airhostess’ brother

Haryana MLA Gopal Goyal Kanda is accused of abetting the suicide of airhostess Geetika Sharma in 2012, and her mother’s in 2013.

In poll season, Haryana’s pahalwans find a new arena — as bouncers for politicians

Haryana, which votes on 21 October, is known to nurture bodybuilders or ‘pahalwans’, reared on its famed ‘doodh-dahi ka khana’. 

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.