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TopicJharkhand assembly election

Topic: Jharkhand assembly election

Fact Check: Amit Shah didn’t address Champai Soren disrespectfully at Jharkhand election rally

The short clip of Union home minister encouraging Soren to come forward on stage has been edited. Soren, ex-JMM leader, had joined BJP in August 2024. He'll contest from Saraikella seat.

Voting underway for 43 seats in first phase of Jharkhand assembly elections, Guv Gangwar casts votes

Polling began at 7 AM across 15 districts and will continue till 5 PM. A total of 683 candidates, including 609 men, 73 women, and one third-gender person, are contesting 43 seats.

Fact Check: Hemant Soren didn’t promise free shrouds before Jharkhand polls. It’s a 2021 video

News outlets reported in 2021 that the Jharkhand government had announced the distribution of free shrouds for patients dying of Covid-19.

BJP can’t win Jharkhand with just catchy ‘roti-beti-mati’. It needs reserved tribal seats

Hemant Soren's release is likely to garner sympathy from the Adivasi community. The JMM has recieved 41 per cent credit for the state's formation.

Nobel-winning physicist Max Born once lived in India, taught at IISc

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

In Jharkhand, BJP is charging ahead with its campaign, while JMM is left steering ally Congress’s ship

BJP has pulled out its big guns, Modi & Shah, in Jharkhand, while Congress has been slow to start, leaving JMM’s Hemant & Kalpana Soren to carry the campaign on their shoulders.

Not ‘kaun banega mukhyamantri’ contest; MVA to name CM pick after polls, says Jairam Ramesh

New Delhi: Asserting that the Maharashtra Assembly polls were not a "kaun banega mukhyamantri" contest but a fight to form an MVA government, Congress...

Why BJP has pitted Gamliyel Hembrom, who lost deposit in 2019, against Hemant Soren again

BJP chose football buff & ex-teacher to fight against CM at JMM stronghold in Jharkhand. Hembrom had fought on AJSU ticket last election & lost poorly to Soren.

Jharkhand polls: BJP releases 2nd list, fields Gamliyel Hembrom against CM Hemant Soren

Ranchi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released their second of candidates for the Jharkhand Assembly elections on Monday. The party has announced two candidates, Gamliyel...

Seat talks in Jharkhand, Maharashtra & Bengal strain Left-Congress ties. ‘1 party isn’t INDIA bloc’

General secretaries of CPI & CPI(ML) say INDIA bloc's full potential can't be realised unless Congress changes approach. AICC secretary promises that 'all issues will be settled'.

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Europe’s sanctions are not the moral compass it paints to be. Look at the EU’s own data

Three years into the war, Europe’s sanctions regime now resembles a policy of managed hypocrisy: Moral rhetoric for public consumption, exemptions for industrial preservation.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.