Elections

Maharashtra Assembly elections: Six in 10 Maharashtrians relate more to the national identity than the regional

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Maharashtra Assembly elections: Six in 10 Maharashtrians relate more to the national identity than the regional

Students paint posters urging voters to vote for the Lok Sabha election 2024. File picture used for representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The State of Bombay was bifurcated in 1960 into the Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and the Gujarati-speaking Gujarat. Balasaheb Thackeray’s satirical cartoons on anti-migrant sentiments gained steam with the local population which led to … Read more

Maharashtra elections: Maha Vikas Aghadi accuses Mahayuti government of rigging voters’ names

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Maharashtra elections: Maha Vikas Aghadi accuses Mahayuti government of rigging voters’ names

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole. File | Photo Credit: ANI Ahead of Assembly polls, the Opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday (October 18, 2024) accused the Mahayuti government of deleting voters’ names from the voters’ list in the constituencies where MVA had a substantial lead in the Lok Sabha elections. Showing evidence, MVA … Read more

Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections 2024 | CSDS-Lokniti survey

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Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections 2024 | CSDS-Lokniti survey

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah (2R) with Vice President Omar Abdullah (R) after the party’s Legislature Party Meeting, at the headquarters Nawa e Subha in Srinagar, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Omar Abdullah was elected as the leader of the Legislature Party. | Photo Credit: PTI The National Conference (NC) emerged as the single largest party … Read more

Watch: Jammu and Kashmir elections: What message does New Delhi want to send?

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Watch: Jammu and Kashmir elections: What message does New Delhi want to send?

This week, we are speaking about Jammu Kashmir, where voters have now participated in 3 phases of polling for the first state elections in a decade and the message New Delhi is sending out over it. The issue over Kashmir also came up in the UN General Assembly last week, although compared to previous years … Read more

Traders shy away from Modi-linked stocks in shift to defensives

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Traders shy away from Modi-linked stocks in shift to defensives

Investors in India are shunning stocks that were expected to benefit from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election, and instead piling into defensive sectors.An index of the so-called Modi stocks, a term coined by CLSA, has climbed only 2% as the prime minister completed his first 100 days in office after winning a third term in … Read more

Will global risks and slower credit growth cloud India’s GDP outlook? Sonal Varma answers

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Will global risks and slower credit growth cloud India’s GDP outlook? Sonal Varma answers

“So, our own estimate is 6.8% for GDP growth and we have seen in the last two-three quarters a big variance actually between GDP growth and GVA growth. One is sort of from the demand side, the other is from the supply side. And we do think the GVA growth is going to continue to … Read more

Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus vows ‘free and fair’ elections, urges restraint

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Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus vows ‘free and fair’ elections, urges restraint

Bangladesh interim government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on Sunday appealed to the people to have “patience” as it is difficult to address the “mountain-like challenges” overnight while promising them a free, fair and participatory election after implementing key reforms in different sectors. In a televised address to the nation, his second since assuming charge on … Read more

TDP leaders, who were denied tickets in the recent elections, eyeing nominated posts in the combined Anantapur district

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TDP leaders, who were denied tickets in the recent elections, eyeing nominated posts in the combined Anantapur district

During the recent general elections, several leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) voluntarily stayed away from seeking party tickets and extended support to the official candidates. In Anantapur and Sri Sathya Sai districts, consisting of 14 Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies, the TDP changed candidates in more than half of these seats in … Read more

West Bengal government reinstates 4 police officers transferred during elections

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West Bengal government reinstates 4 police officers transferred during elections

The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal has reinstated four police officers who were earlier transferred to non-electoral posts by the Election Commission of India during the Lok Sabha elections. The election commission had transferred several officials, including the Director General of Police (DGP), and relieved them from election duty. Among the officers, Aminul Islam … Read more

V.K. Pandian, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik’s close aide, quits active politics after BJD’s debacle in elections

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V.K. Pandian, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik’s close aide, quits active politics after BJD’s debacle in elections

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik with V.K. Pandian. V.K. Pandian has decided to quit active politics following the party’s defeat in the Odisha Assemble Elections.  | Photo Credit: ANI In a setback to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), bureaucrat-turned-politician V.K. Pandian and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s close aide has decided to quit active politics … Read more