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Canada supports the rights of citizens to ‘speak out’ even if it ‘irritates’ India: Trudeau

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right), tours a modular home construction facility before making a housing announcement in Calgary, Alberta, on April 5. (AP)
Updated on Apr 11, 2024 11:15 AM IST

Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?

In any election, the best metric to measure whether or not a party has increased popular support, is the vote share number. (ANI)
Updated on Mar 17, 2024 06:36 AM IST

On Modi’s foreign policy, here is what the Opposition gets it wrong

PM Modi’s use of foreign policy for domestic political ends has created both excitement among citizens around India’s role in the world and deeper awareness about it. (PTI file photo)
Updated on Sep 14, 2023 12:31 PM IST

Pawar and Shinde minister travel together, raise eyebrows

Pawar and Shinde minister travel together, raise eyebrows
Updated on Jun 16, 2023 12:02 AM IST

No need for public inquiry into foreign interference in polls: Canada special rapporteur

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (centre), with Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair (left), holds a press conference in response to the release of a special report on foreign interference, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday. (REUTERS)
Updated on May 24, 2023 12:56 PM IST

The contours of the next political battle

What has truly helped the BJP is the fact that the Congress is in complete disarray, with an internal factional feud between state leaders
Updated on Aug 31, 2019 07:48 PM IST

‘Ensure no foreign influence in 2019 polls’: Parliamentary panel tells Twitter

The parliamentary panel also told Twitter that there must be clarity and transparency regarding advertisements and sponsored content on the platform.
Updated on Feb 25, 2019 05:18 PM IST

KCR in Delhi, to meet Prime Minister Modi today

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao addresses the media after a meeting in Howrah near Kolkata on Monday.
Updated on Dec 26, 2018 03:19 PM IST

Beneficiaries are our new voter base, says Prakash Javadekar

Union minister Prakash Javdekar at an interview in New Delhi on May 22, 2018.
Updated on Nov 12, 2018 08:36 AM IST

AAP to contest from all Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana in 2019 polls

A rally organised by Aam Aadmi Party in Noida.
Updated on Nov 10, 2018 12:08 AM IST

Online survey says over 50% respondents preferred Narendra Modi as PM for 2nd term

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Tokyo on October 29.
Updated on Nov 02, 2018 10:40 PM IST

Rahul Gandhi needs binoculars to search for Congress-ruled states: Amit Shah

Addressing the concluding session of the BJYM national convention — Yuva Adhiveshan — at Secunderabad parade grounds, Amit Shah said the so-called grand alliance was not going to make any impact on the BJP even if more and more parties join it.
Updated on Oct 28, 2018 11:40 PM IST

Ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Opposition’s confusion turns voters cynical

The opposition’s dilemma and delay in firming up alliances is raising doubts over their avowed espousal of a credible alternative to the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre.
Updated on Oct 22, 2018 08:48 AM IST

Odisha BJP wants Narendra Modi to contest from Puri in 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting in Odisha’s Jharsuguda on September 22.
Updated on Oct 05, 2018 07:12 PM IST

An alternative front to BJP will emerge automatically:TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu addressing a press conference at Constitutional Club in New Delhi.
Updated on Oct 05, 2018 10:01 AM IST

Nitish Kumar meets Amit Shah ahead of ‘honourable’ pact for 2019 in Bihar

Chief minister Nitish Kumar with BJP national president Amit Shah during the latter's visit to Patna.
Updated on Sep 19, 2018 07:33 PM IST

Data Protection Bill not likely to be passed before 2019 Lok Sabha elections

The electronics and information technology ministry empanelled a group of nine experts in July 2017 to draft India’s first ever personal data privacy law.
Updated on Sep 16, 2018 08:09 AM IST

AAP will not ally with Congress in 2019 elections, says Gopal Rai

Gopal Rai, a cabinet minister in Delhi government and a senior AAP leader, said that the party will not ally with Congress in 2019 parliamentary elections.
Updated on Sep 04, 2018 08:42 AM IST

Sharad Pawar’s 2019 plan and response to Rahul’s ‘I am not in PM race’ remark

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar arrives for executive party members meeting at Y B Chavan Hall, in Mumbai on August 27.
Updated on Aug 28, 2018 11:56 AM IST

Focus on government schemes in BJP’s Dalit outreach

The BJP is pinning its hopes on winning new territories, such as West Bengal, to compensate for any loss in its strong hold areas.
Updated on Aug 23, 2018 09:37 AM IST

Amid contradictions and poll alliances, pan-India anti-BJP front unlikely for 2019

While the Shiv Sena has been indulging in anti-Modi rhetoric for some time, it also realises that parting ways with the BJP will significantly diminish its electoral prospects in case the Congress and the NCP restore their pre-poll alliance in the state.
Updated on Aug 12, 2018 11:32 AM IST

Most welcome if Mamata Banerjee is projected as PM, says HD Deve Gowda

JD(S) leader HD Deve Gowda speaks during a press conference at Karnataka Bhawan, in New Delhi.
Updated on Aug 05, 2018 03:21 PM IST

Will Mamata, Akhilesh, Mayawati work under Rahul Gandhi, asks Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath addressing the orientation session of Gautam Buddha University, in Greater Noida on August 3, 2018. CM Adityanath said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had entered the poll fray under the declared leadership of Prime Minister Modi.
Updated on Aug 05, 2018 08:25 AM IST

Kamal Haasan says ready for 2019 polls, may fight without allies

Tamil actors Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan at the inaugural of the Shivaji Ganeshan memorial in Chennai.
Updated on Aug 04, 2018 07:02 AM IST

Shiv Sena’s dilemma: To be with BJP, or not to be

Though the party passed a resolution to go solo in the 2019 polls, there are some key members who want an alliance with the BJP.
Updated on Jul 23, 2018 10:34 AM IST

Congress to focus on state alliances in 2019 polls, Rahul Gandhi to lead charge

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi speaks as Congress president Rahul Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh look on at the Congress Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Sunday.
Updated on Jul 22, 2018 11:28 PM IST

Congress authorises Rahul Gandhi to decide election alliances, gears up for 2019 polls

Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressing the extended Congress Working Committee meeting at Parliament House Annexe in New Delhi on Sunday.
Updated on Jul 22, 2018 08:39 PM IST

Work 18 hours a day, says Amit Shah to BJP workers in poll-bound Rajasthan

Bhartiya Janta Party president Amit Shah with Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje during the closing ceremony of state working committee meeting, in Jaipur on July 21.
Updated on Jul 21, 2018 10:14 PM IST

2019 Lok Sabha elections: Will BJP’s game plan to divide Muslim votes work?

Supporters of Bhartiya Janta Party wave party flags to their president Amit Shah on his arrival at Chennai.
Published on Jul 18, 2018 08:09 AM IST

BSP pitches for ‘dabang’ Mayawati, says Rahul can’t be PM as ‘his mother is a foreigner’

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati and Congress President Rahul Gandhi during the swearing-in ceremony of JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Bengaluru.
Updated on Jul 17, 2018 11:10 AM IST