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TopicMaharashtra assembly elections

Topic: Maharashtra assembly elections

Fact Check: Uddhav didn’t call Mughal ruler brother. He referred to Indian soldier Aurangzeb

Rifleman Aurangzeb belonged to the 4 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry and was kidnapped and later murdered by militants in Pulwama on 14 June 2018.

Maharashtra sees low voter turnout of 6.61%, Jharkhand records 12.71% in 2nd phase

Voting in the 2 states began at 7 am Wednesday for 288 seats of Maharashtra assembly elections & 2nd phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections, covering the state's remaining 38 seats.

Watch CutTheClutter: Muddled agendas & ideologies, divided houses, fight to finish for some in Maharashtra

In Episode 1555 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta examines the state's six regions, their significance, and the power-share dynamics within coalitions.

Maharashtra polls: Ajit Pawar, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat among early voters

Voting began in all 288 Assembly seats in the state at 7 am and will end at 6 pm.

Day before Maharashtra votes, BJP’s Vinod Tawde accused of distributing cash at Nalasopara hotel

Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi workers claim to have caught Tawde with Rs 5 crore cash at a hotel. Tawde denies allegations, says went to the hotel to speak with party workers.

Battle of Baba Siddique’s son, Thackeray kin, ex-MLA’s widow makes Bandra East a must-watch seat

Trupti Sawant from MNS may decide fate of winner in this assembly constituency where Baba Siddique's son is sitting MLA. Plus, there are several Independents in the fray.

Fact Check: Video from Milad-un-Nabi in Maharashtra falsely tagged as Congress election rally in Akola

Viral video is from a bike rally in Latur, Maharashtra, on occasion of Milad-un-Nabi in September. Flags seen in video are Islamic flags & there's no 'ISIS flag' as is being claimed.

Shinde govt wanted to enslave women with Ladki Bahin scheme, people have seen intention, says Uddhav

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has claimed that the Eknath Shinde-led Mahayuti government’s Ladki Bahin scheme won’t have any impact on the...

Modi suffering ‘memory loss like former US president,’ says Rahul Gandhi at Maharashtra poll rally

Referring to Biden mistakenly referring to Ukrainian president as Putin, Rahul Gandhi said Modi has ‘memory loss’, might say in next rally that Congress leader is against caste census.

Aaditya Thackeray doing now what Congress did for 10 yrs, says Shinde Sena’s Worli pick Milind Deora

Former Congress MP Milind Deora also criticises ‘speed-breaker’ politics, adds that there is an unspoken rule within the MVA to oppose anything that a few business leaders do.

On Camera

Akbar wasn’t a Hindu-made hero. Don’t use communal filters to frame his legacy

What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.