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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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In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.