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Early Lok Sabha trends show BJP-led NDA leading in 274 seats, past majority mark

Ruhi Tewari -
NDA leading in 274 seats as against UPA's 90. BJP alone is leading in 226 seats, while Congress is leading in 57.

Suhas Palshikar says Modi a ‘preacher’ who prefers only one-way communication

Aastha Singh -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Papers ‘ride’ on exit poll gains at Sensex, both HT & Express say they broke EC rift story

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

Exit polls are often wrong, but don’t blame silent voters for it

Rahul Verma -
In Lok Sabha elections, varied types of silent votes frequently cancel each other out and the net result is close to exit poll forecasts.

Why Yogi Adityanath sacked UP ally and minister Om Prakash Rajbhar

Aditi Vatsa -
Om Prakash Rajbhar’s SBSP and BJP had been at loggerheads in UP for months. The last straw was when Rajbhar asked his supporters at a rally to thrash BJP workers.

Apoorvanand: BJP’s rebuke of Pragya Singh Thakur was a “clever ploy”

Aastha Singh -
ThoughtShot—The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Winning anything less than 543 seats would be a defeat for Narendra Modi

Shivam Vij -
Why should Modi lose a single seat when the opposition is giving him a walkover, and media, money and the Election Commission are on his side?

Newspapers headline TV exit polls ‘huge’ Modi victory but say wait for 23 May

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

Exit polls make it clear SP-BSP alliance has failed to smash BJP: Yogendra Yadav

Yogendra Yadav -
BJP's surge in Bengal could be bigger than what the exit polls are predicting. Odisha is telling us a similar story.

Watch out India’s next govt, Modi regime is leaving behind an extremely weak economy

Jayshree Sengupta -
Industrial output has declined, manufacturing growth has hit a new low and banks are in woeful state. Agriculture is another story.
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Opinion

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

Shishir Priyadarshi -
India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

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Economy

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Defence

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

National Interest

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

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

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