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Sunday, November 3, 2024
TopicKarnataka elections

Topic: Karnataka elections

Last Laughs: What the Walmart-Flipkart deal overshadows & the problem with Rahul’s PM dreams

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

3 days before Karnataka polls, Congress moves Election Commission alleging voter ID scam

Congress alleges nearly 10,000 voter IDs found in a BJP member’s house in Bengaluru, but BJP says apartment owner has no link with the party.

Here’s who the ‘hawa’ favours in Karnataka, and it’s not Siddaramaiah

Workers of the party tell Muslim voters that the BJP’s compulsion to ally with the JD(S) will keep Hindutva in check.

Why Sonia Gandhi and Narendra Modi descended on Vijayapura on the same day: Lingayat votes

The Lingayat stronghold of Vijayapura has become a battleground where both Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi addressed rallies on the same day.

Social thunderstorm on Sonam Kapoor’s wedding a toast to the nosy aunty in all of us

Our generation is vicarious, if nothing else. To those of us lucky enough to own a smartphone and have internet access, vapid escapism is more than just a hobby.

Last Laughs: A storm’s predicted in Karnataka and the farce of leaders eating meals with Dalits

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

A 15-min debate with Rahul will reveal Modi is an average club batsman, not Virat Kohli

Modi may be a good orator in monologues but he is hilariously bad at any unscripted dialogue.

In Hyderabad-Karnataka region, voters have hardly anything real to choose from

In the Karnataka-Hyderabad region, it is the AHINDA (Dalits, backward classes and minorities) versus the Lingayats. And the mining Reddys could just tilt scales in BJP’s favour.

Catch them while they’re young: Congress set to woo first time voters for mission 2019

According to an internal party report, the 2019 Lok Sabha election is expected to see an estimated 15 crore first-time voters, and the Congress has been brainstorming about how to woo them.  

Who to vote for in the Karnataka election? Just go with your mutt

There are no official figures on the number of mutts belonging to different castes, sub-castes and sects in Karnataka, but they are estimated to be in the hundreds.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.