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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.

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. 

‘For BJP, Ram temple is more about political gain than religious sentiments,’ says Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

What Modi’s guarantee to make India 3rd largest economy means for PM probables Yogi, Shah

Modi’s promise to fulfil everyone’s dreams in his third term is a message to his BJP colleagues not to think too much about his age or the unwritten retirement age of 75 years.

On Camera

What can be expected from the ongoing talks in Islamabad? Odds of resolution remain slim

The initial ceasefire functioned less as a resolution and more as a pause—an opportunity for both sides to recalibrate, while claiming victory.

India bond yields rise as RBI moves to drain liquidity, lift overnight rates

New Delhi: India’s sovereign bond yields rose after the central bank announced its first step this year to drain cash from the banking system,...

Army promotes Col Purohit, acquitted in 2008 Malegaon blast case, to Brigadier; to not retire yet

This means he will serve Indian Army for a minimum of another 2 years as Brigadier, unless he picks up the next rank of Major General.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

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.