Over 960 million electors, 470 million of them women, will soon elect 543 Lok Sabha MPs by casting their ballots in 1.2 million booths overseen by 15 million officials across 28 states and nine Union territories in a multi-phase election.
India's first general and assembly polls were held between October 1951 and March 1952. The political milieu and campaigns in that era were a far cry from today. A look back.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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