UP by Polls: Samajwadi Party issues 1st list of 6 candidates Samajwadi Party issued the first list of 6 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh by-elections. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Oct 9, 2024
‘Post-240 booster shot for BJP, nettled crown in J&K’: What papers said on poll results Contrary to exit polls, the BJP retained power in Haryana while the National Conference and Congress managed to get a clear majority in Jammu and Kashmir. A resurgent Congress was projected to win more seats, but it was the BJP which received a boost just months after its poor show… Newslaundry · Oct 9, 2024
Eknath Shinde: A figurehead or Maharashtra’s new powerhouse? Two years ago, when the Shiv Sena fractured into two factions and Eknath Shinde aligned with the BJP, backed by 40 MLAs, many political observers viewed it as the conch-call heralding the end of his political career. The sentiment was that Shinde, as Maharashtra chief minister, would be a pawn… Newslaundry · Oct 7, 2024
Behind India’s ‘food surplus’ claims, 13 crore Indians denied rations In the run-up to the 2024 general elections, the Food Corporation of India wrote to all its 26 regional offices on January 12, 2024, asking them to float tenders for bags with an indicative logo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in order to distribute food grains under the Pradhan Mantri… Newslaundry · Oct 7, 2024
‘Integrity at stake’: Sonam Wangchuk on Ladakh’s fight for Sixth Schedule status In 2019, the BJP promised to grant the Sixth Schedule status to Ladakh if voted to power in the Lok Sabha polls. The party doubled down on its promise in the local council elections next year. The unfulfilled promise is now one of the core demands of the locals of… Newslaundry · Oct 4, 2024
Ajit Pawar’s ad blitz: Over Rs 30 lakh spent on Meta ads as election looms In a blow to the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Lok Sabha election, Ajit Pawar’s NCP emerged as the biggest casualty of the three allies – losing three out of the four seats it contested, including the high-profile Baramati. The BJP won nine seats, and the Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena… Newslaundry · Oct 4, 2024
Ram Rahim is silent ahead of Haryana polls. But his dera’s message is set to ring out loud Serving life sentence in Rohtak jail for rape and murder, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has once again walked out of prison, on parole and ahead of an election. While the Election Commission has banned him from indulging in any political activity, and he hasn’t spoken a… Newslaundry · Oct 3, 2024
Haryana Polls: Ex-Lok Sabha MP Ashok Tanwar joins Congress again Ex-Haryana Congress Chief Tanwar returned to party in the presence of LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Ex-Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Mahendergarh. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Oct 3, 2024
Lok Sabha: Speaker Om Birla inaugurates 21st CPA Zone conference The 21st CPA Zone III Conference inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at Mizoram Legislative Assembly Complex, Aizawl, on Friday. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Sep 27, 2024
Kangana Ranaut withdraws her remarks on farm laws; Expresses regrets Mandi Lok Sabha MP Kangana Ranaut had suggested that the three farm laws that were repealed following prolonged farmer protests should be brought back. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Sep 25, 2024
"LG is outsider, cannot do what is in hearts of people of J-K": Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi asserted that the democratic rights of the Jammu and Kashmir people have been snatched. Read further on Dynamite News: Dynamite News · Sep 23, 2024
'Now is the time to seize the gold': Rahul Gandhi wishes Team India success at Chess Olympiad NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, extended his best wishes to Team India ahead of the crucial rounds of the Chess Olympiads on Sunday. The Times of India · Sep 22, 2024
Delhi in flux: What AAP’s reset means for assembly polls Days after AAP chief and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the liquor policy case, Atishi took over as the Delhi CM today. The efforts to read between the lines of the AAP chief’s decision to step down from the CM office… Newslaundry · Sep 21, 2024
‘BJP opened a new front of terrorism in Jammu’: Omar Abdullah on shift in J&K politics, polls Omar Abdullah, chairperson of the National Conference, has served as the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and even Union minister. In the recent Lok Sabha polls, Abdullah conceded defeat in the Baramulla constituency in North Kashmir against independent candidate Engineer Rashid. Now his party is in the fray… Newslaundry · Sep 20, 2024
Newslaundry · Sep 19, 2024 Window of hope, yet little changed in media accountability in Modi 3.0 Since June this year, when the general election results significantly reduced the strength of the BJP in the Lok Sabha, the optimists believed that a party dependent on its coalition partners, even if it continues to be led by Narendra Modi, would be different. That the visible authoritarian tendencies of…
Dynamite News · Sep 18, 2024 Union Cabinet approves One Nation, One Election proposal The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the government's 'One Nation, One Election' proposal. Read further on Dynamite News:
Dynamite News · Sep 16, 2024 Blog: Wind of change in Haryana Assembly polls? In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the BJP and the Congress won five seats each out of 10 seats in the state. Must follow the story on Dynamite News Blog:
Al Jazeera · Sep 16, 2024 Kashmir election: Are separatist candidates change agents or Trojan horses? For decades, the Jamaat-e-Islami boycotted elections. Now, the banned group has upended its position—and the campaign.
Newslaundry · Sep 14, 2024 Engineer Rashid: Kashmir’s new leader or BJP’s new ‘pawn’? Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin…
Dynamite News · Sep 9, 2024 Rahul Gandhi In US: 'Fear of BJP vanished after 2024 Lok Sabha polls' Following Lok Sabha 2024 election results, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is currently visiting the US, said that people no longer fear PM Narendra Modi and the BJP. Read further on Dynamite News:
Dynamite News · Sep 8, 2024 Rahul Gandhi arrives in Dallas on three-day US visit to a warm welcome Rahul Gandhi expressed his anticipation for engaging in meaningful discussions to strengthen the bond between the two nations. Read further on Dynamite News:
Dynamite News · Sep 4, 2024 'Centre snatching identity, rights of Jammu & Kashmir': Rahul Gandhi "A state has been abolished and the rights of the people have been snatched away." Read further on Dynamite News:
Dynamite News · Sep 4, 2024 Wrestlers Vinesh, Bajrang may contest Haryana polls; Meet Rahul Gandhi Polling in Haryana will be held on October 5. Votes will be counted on October 8. Read further on Dynamite News:
Newslaundry · Sep 2, 2024 Disruption or disaster? The uncertainty around Engineer Rashid’s party, Jamaat in Kashmir polls Langate is quiet just as it was in the beginning of the Lok Sabha election in April. But the sleepy north Kashmir town is expected to buzz soon with political activity, and erupt, much like it did in May, in support of the jailed Awami Ittehad Party leader Engineer Rashid.
Newslaundry · Sep 2, 2024 Rebellion, rise in radical Sikh politics: Inside the Akali Dal’s existential crisis Jagtar Singh, a resident of Halwara village in Ludhiana district, was once a hardcore supporter of the Shiromani Akali Dal. He is now among the many voters in Punjab who are growing increasingly wary of the country’s second-oldest political outfit.