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TopicLok Sabha 2024

Topic: Lok Sabha 2024

Covaxin maker contributed Rs 50 cr to BJP in FY23-24. Congress leaders pooled money for donations

While BJP received over Rs 2,243.9 crore in the financial year 2023-2024, Congress got Rs 280 cr. This didn't include electoral bond contributions received before SC struck down scheme.

PDP announces candidates for 3 seats in Valley, Mehbooba to contest from Anantnag

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti will contest the Lok Sabha polls from the Anantnag constituency, the party announced on Sunday as it...

MK Stalin release DMK manifesto, calls for Governor to be appointed in consultation with state CM

MK Stalin release DMK manifesto, calls for Governor to be appointed in consultation with state CM

TMC declares candidates for all 42 LS seats in West Bengal, fields Yusuf Pathan from Baharampur

The TMC also renominated expelled Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar seat for the second consecutive term.

Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigns ahead of Lok Sabha polls

Three-member EC panel now comprises only CEC Rajiv Kumar, following retirement of Anup Pandey in February and resignation of Arun Goel, who was due to retire in 2027.

SubscriberWrites: North vs South — Opposition’s Answer to the Electoral Rout, to Maintain its Political Clout

The North vs South bifurcation has plagued India since long, but with Congress vociferously positioning itself as the 'natural choice of the South', the belief has further deepened.

What prompted SP to seal an alliance with Congress in UP & MP for Lok Sabha polls

SP to contest in 63 seats & Congress in 17 in UP. Alliance will give SP an advantage in Muslim-dominated seats in the state. SP will also get one seat in MP as part of seat-sharing deal.

Zero tolerance: ECI tells political parties, candidates not to involve children in poll campaign

Top leaders of both Congress and BJP have been accused of “misusing” children for political campaigns.

Jay Panda gets UP, Vinod Tawde gets Bihar as BJP promotes new faces as poll managers for 2024

Veteran poll managers Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Yadav missing from list of in-charges & co-in-charges. In-charges not named in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi & Maharashtra.

Kharge to be ‘INDIA chairperson’, Nitish ‘withdraws’ from convener race citing ‘lack of consensus’

Bihar CM & JD (U) president Nitish Kumar is learnt to have said he would only consider convener’s post when there’s consensus. He also insisted that a Congress leader be alliance chair. 

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The Press is not artillery — neither for the ruling party nor the Opposition: Sachin Sen

The Press in a liberal democracy has to be a forum for the expression of different points of view. It must not suppress, taint or adulterate news, wrote Sachin Sen in 1960.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.