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Saturday, February 21, 2026
TopicLok Sabha election 2024

Topic: Lok Sabha election 2024

Election has come at a time just as private sector was about to step up investment

For the first time in about 30 years, there are strong fears that the overall political consensus on key economic policy aspects seems to be fracturing.

HUF & puff and blow the inherited house down, and when election is 99% perspiration

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

Rises and falls in Lok Sabha polls of last 20 years. And a new law that matters for 2024

The last two decades of Lok Sabha elections saw UPA’s rise and fall, Left’s decimation, and BJP’s juggernaut. Now there’s a new law to choose election commissioners.

Just how staggering is the logistic of conducting Lok Sabha election in India? 1st to 18th

Over 960 million electors, 470 million of them women, will soon elect 543 Lok Sabha MPs by casting their ballots in 1.2 million booths overseen by 15 million officials across 28 states and nine Union territories in a multi-phase election.

Kerala BJP wants to overthrow ‘corrupt central govt’? Campaign song gaffe leaves state unit red-faced

The song, released as part of the party’s foot march, was taken down after the gaffe was noticed. Second controversy surrounding the march this week.

Babita Phogat opens office in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri, awaits BJP’s ‘call’ for upcoming polls

Ex-wrestler who now is in BJP camp hosted get-together at her residence-cum-office in Charkhi Dadri. Says she is willing to fight parliamentary or assembly elections.

Modi is following the 2014 script in criticising INDIA alliance. There’s just one twist

BJP has no problem with dynasts or with those it accused of being corrupt as long as they are willing to join the party, or, at the very least, align with the new NDA.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.