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TopicMaharashtra assembly elections

Topic: Maharashtra assembly elections

MVA releases manifesto, promises 5 guarantees including caste census ahead of Maharashtra polls

The Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) & NCP (Sharad Pawar) alliance has vowed to provide Rs 3,000 financial aid to women every month as well as free bus rides to women in the state.

Nobel-winning physicist Max Born once lived in India, taught at IISc

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Why IAS officers in Telangana are unimpressed by state’s new luxe & Vastu-compliant secretariat

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

Fact Check: Yogi didn’t campaign on bulldozer in Maharashtra, video circulated with false claim

Video is from BJP candidate Harish Pimple's rally in Murtizapur in Akola, Maharashtra, from 6 November. A party worker had dressed in saffron like Adityanath and stood on the bulldozer.

3 Shiv Sena offshoots battle for Bal Thackeray bastion. How Mahim contest shows Mumbai’s political churn

Raj's son Amit Thackeray, incumbent Sada Sarvankar & Mahesh Sawant in fray from Mahim, a stronghold of undivided Sena, with motley mix of voters, including Marathi speakers & Muslims.

In Maharashtra, Sangh Parivar seeks votes for Hindutva with ‘vote jihad’ warnings, sant sammelans

After BJP's poor performance in Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra, Sangh outfits are trying to galvanise Hindu voters by citing threats Muslims allegedly pose to their community.

More aid for women, houses for ‘sons of soil’. Mahayuti, MVA neck and neck in battle of the freebies

While MVA released joint card of poll guarantees Wednesday, ruling alliance unveiled its 10-point guarantee list a day earlier. Women, youths, farmers, all find place in manifestos.

Ahead of Maharashtra polls, Uddhav Sena releases manifesto, promises free education, scrapping Dharavi project

According to Thackeray, the Sena-NCP-Congress alliance will stabilise prices of essential items, devise housing policy for Mumbai, & extend free education to male students.

Congress embroiled in ‘royal’ drama in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur after candidate’s last-minute withdrawal

Madhurimaraje Chhatrapati, member of Kolhapur’s royal family, withdrew her nomination for the elections, taking district unit party chief Satej Patil by surprise.

Cash, cylinders, loan waivers: Congress sops for Maharashtra just days after Kharge’s freebie caution

New Delhi: A direct cash benefit of up to Rs 3,000 for women, six cylinders per household at a subsidised rate, unemployment allowance of...

On Camera

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.