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TopicLok Sabha polls 2019

Topic: Lok Sabha polls 2019

Tamasha TV for a tamasha PM: How Indian media covered Modi this election

Kaveree Bamzai -
There are Facebook surveys, WhatsApp polls, interviews in lawns of Modi's home and chats with Rahul Gandhi between rallies and chopper rides.

17th Lok Sabha looks set to confirm Ambedkar’s fears: no vocal Dalits in Parliament

Dilip Mandal -
India has a dichotomous situation — vocal Dalits in college campuses and on the streets, and silent Dalits in Parliament.

UP’s 1.3 lakh polling booths: What affects voter turnout on election day

Rahul Verma -
EC’s voter education programme has exhausted its limit as data shows two booth-level factors can affect participation on polling day.

Modi’s BJP lashes out at opposition for ignoring development but abandoned the plank itself

Abhay Kumar -
Modi government is unashamedly resorting to anti-Muslim statements and religious or emotional issues to win the elections.

India needs politicians who understand tech, not lawyers who double up as IT ministers

Ritesh Mehta -
Whether it’s a BJP or Congress government in May, India must pick a true technologist at heart from three options for the post of IT minister.

‘Festival of democracy’ and Advani’s end of poll road

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

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Opinion

India can sell its vision, but it can’t spectacle its way to AI power

Catherine Thorbecke -
The challenge of translating the AI wave into livelihoods is a bigger governing test for PM Modi than collecting selfies with Silicon Valley’s elite.

‘Good old days of bonhomie’ between New Delhi and Dhaka won’t be easy

Middle powers are showing unprecedented agency. To offset unsteady US era

Economy

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

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

Defence

US military commander, envoy Sergio Gor visit Indian Army Western Command, Bengaluru next

Snehesh Alex Philip -
At the Western Army Command, the American delegation was briefed on the capabilities of the formation, past operations and the path ahead.

National Interest

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

Shekhar Gupta -
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.

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