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India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?

Scared of the BJP describing them as pro-Muslim, these parties distanced themselves from the community, analysts say.

Al Jazeera · Jun 5, 2024

India election live results 2024: By the numbers

Al Jazeera breaks down the results of the Lok Sabha elections after a seven-week voting process.

Al Jazeera · Jun 4, 2024

Women exiting workforce, farmer arrests: 10 issues for which Modi govt had no data in parliament

IndiaSpend looked at 35 parliamentary questions on health, education, labour, environment, agriculture, finance, gender and law and justice, between 2015 and 2023, for which the government responded that they had no data. The most common reason, in 17 of the 35 questions, for not providing data was “no such data…

Newslaundry · Jun 3, 2024

India Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 4: Who votes and what’s at stake?

People from across 10 states and union territories will vote on May 13 to elect 96 MPs for the Lok Sabha.

Al Jazeera · May 12, 2024

Know Your Turncoats, Part 12: Phase 4 has 50 turncoats, 54% in BJP-led NDA

It’s a deluge of defectors. A record 50 turncoats will contest the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections across 96 constituencies on May 13 – the highest number in a single phase so far. And of these, at least 27, or 54 percent, are in the BJP-led National Democratic…

Newslaundry · May 9, 2024

‘Will take us all of 15 seconds...’: BJP’s Navneet Rana responds to Akbaruddin Owaisi’s 2013 speech

BJP leader Navneet Rana responds to AIMIM's Akbaruddin Owaisi's controversial statement with a veiled warning in Hyderabad

The Hindu · May 9, 2024

Will bring railway line to Konaseema to fulfil my father’s dream, says G.M.C. Balayogi’s son

Ganti Harish Madhur, TDP candidate for Amalapuram, aims to fulfill his father's dream of railway connectivity and development.

The Hindu · May 7, 2024

Maharashtra Assembly elections, not Lok Sabha polls, will settle political scores

The horizon being gazed at by political parties in Maharashtra is the more local war for the State, which began after the last Assembly polls in 2019, when the then-united Shiv Sena walked out of the Mahayuthi or NDA in the State and formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi government

The Hindu · May 6, 2024

Lok Sabha polls 2024: Congress fields Rahul Gandhi from Raebareli, KL Sharma from Amethi

After days of suspense, Congress on Friday named Rahul Gandhi as its candidate from its traditional bastion of Raebareli Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi is pitted against the BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · May 3, 2024

K. Anbazhagan opposed Gold (Control) Rules, saying it treated only symptoms, not the disease

Gold's significance in Indian culture, past attempts to control its possession, and the eventual abandonment of such regulations.

The Hindu · May 2, 2024