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On April 18, Neha Hiremath, 23, was stabbed to death at her college in Hubballi by her former classmate, Fayaz Khandunayak. About two weeks later, the murder case has purportedly become the poll plank of Dharwad BJP MP Pralhad Joshi, who is facing pushback due to anti-incumbency and resentment among…

With a total of 40 seats, Bihar is one of the crucial Hindi heartland states in the Lok Sabha election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have emerged as a twin challenge from the BJP-led NDA front, while the INDIA bloc’s lone soldier is Tejashwi Yadav.  

इस हफ्ते चर्चा के प्रमुख विषय एसआईटी द्वारा 'यौन शोषण' मामले में पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री एचडी देवगौड़ा के पोते प्रज्वल रेवन्ना के खिलाफ लुकआउट सर्कुलर जारी करना और महिला पहलवानों के यौन शोषण के आरोपी बृजभूषण शरण सिंह के बेटे करण सिंह को कैसरगंज से टिकट मिलना आदि रहे. 

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by in-house reporter Tanishka Sodhi and The News Minute’s Anisha Sheth. 

Hi Hafta team, on the topic of elections, I am curious if there is any intellectual capacity or curiousity for alternate models either in the Indian context or elsewhere with the same five-year term or less governments.  Clearly, it seems to me that short termism in politics is not really…

Jana Sena leader and actor-politician Pawan Kalyan is the crowd puller for the TDP-Jana Sena-BJP alliance in Andhra Pradesh. But he doesn’t agree with the BJP’s communal narratives. 

Of the 12 turncoats in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls, six are part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. After looking at two of them in the previous instalment of this series, which focussed on the battle in Guna, including the BJP’s candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia, and his…

Gujarat’s Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat is a crucial BJP stronghold.

About 500 km from both Raebareli and Amethi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led a roadshow today in Fatehpur Sikri. Earlier in the day, it was clear Priyanka wouldn’t be making her much speculated poll debut. Instead, she accompanied her brother Rahul and mother Sonia to file the former’s…