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TopicUttar Pradesh polls

Topic: Uttar Pradesh polls

Will Ram temple donation ‘theft’ impact 2027 UP polls? In heartland, anger stops short of anti-incumbency

ThePrint travelled across villages in Sitapur, Hardoi and Barabanki districts where reels about Ram Temple donation theft scandal dominate villagers' social media feeds. 

Dalit housing, Ambedkar Gram to UPSC hubs. Are Mayawati’s legacies surviving in UP today?

Over a decade out of office as Uttar Pradesh CM, Mayawati’s political influence is thinning. Mayawati is silent, but stones still speak.

The big move behind Akhilesh Yadav’s alliances with smaller players in Uttar Pradesh

Apna Dal, SBSP, and Jan Adhikar Party are among half-a-dozen small political players that have formed an alliance with the SP.

On Camera

Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike exposes the limits of moral protest in today’s India

Despite Sonam Wangchuk’s health conditions, no govt official contacted him. The silence raises a question: does moral protest still have power to compel those in authority to engage?

Gujarat tops NITI Aayog’s first Investment Friendliness Index, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu follow

The report evaluates 28 states and 8 UTs on 84 indicators across eight pillars, with Niti Aayog pitching it as a reform tool rather than just a ranking exercise.

DIA effect: Canada steams ahead with TKMS for new submarines, India’s P 75I still in works

Ottawa has handed over execution functions of critical defence projects to a CEO-led organisation for reducing procurement timelines and making it solely accountable for outcomes.

BJP’s push for one-party state has a flip side. It could be Congress’s chance for revival

Even if it’s a municipal election someplace where the Congress is a cipher, you will find BJP targeting it. It’s an acknowledgement that Modi sees Congress, however battered, as his only likely challenger.