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India’s Modi wooed women voters. Did the strategy work in the election?

The pitch was clear — the results mixed for Modi’s BJP. And India will see a dip in women MPs in its incoming parliament

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Modi Cabinet 3.0: TDP's Rammohan Naidu to be youngest Union Minister

The 36-year-old Rammohan Naidu won for a third consecutive time from Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam constituency in the Lok Sabha elections. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Couple In Parliament: Now this husband-wife pair will be seen in Lok Sabha

Many records have been made in the elections for the 18th Lok Sabha. But amidst all this, a multi-faceted couple is also going to register their presence on the floor of the House. Read this special report of Dynamite News

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‘Hamara Pradhan Mantri Kaisa Ho, Akhilesh Yadav Jaisa Ho’, slogans rent the National Capital

As the Samajwadi Party has emerged the third largest party in the Lok Sabha, after the 2024 election results, slogans are being raised in Delhi to make the SP Chief the Prime Minister. Must follow the story on Dynamite News:

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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.

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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.

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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…

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Punjab 2024: Is Amritpal Singh contesting just to get out of jail?

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

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Phase 5 of India election held in Gandhi bastions, Ladakh, Ram Temple town

Voting held for 49 seats in six states and two union territories, the fewest of the constituencies going to the polls.

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Know Your Turncoats, Part 14: Telangana’s triangular contests, Andhra MP linked to ‘liquor scam’

As many as 20 turncoats contested the Lok Sabha polls in Telangana and 13 in Andhra Pradesh, with at least 19 of them being fielded by the BJP-led NDA – which had failed to win even a single seat in AP and won only four in Telangana in 2019. The…

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10 Groups of Secretaries working on finalising 100-day agenda for new government

Even as the polling continues in different parts of the country for the Lok Sabha, 10 different groups of secretaries are working to finalise the 100-day agenda for the new government to be formed after the June 4 results. Read further on Dynamite News:

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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.

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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…

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‘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

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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

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

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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:

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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.

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Modi afraid of Rahul Gandhi’s promise of caste census: Uttam

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‘Why no minority candidates?’ | Muhammed Arif ‘Naseem’ Khan decides not to campaign for Congress over absence of Muslim candidates in Maharashtra

Senior Congress leader resigns from campaign committee over lack of minority representation in Maharashtra Lok Sabha polls.

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Know Your Turncoats, Part 8: Gorkha leader, ex-MLAs among 13 defectors in INDIA bloc

A Congressman who returned to his “mother party” to one who jumped ship to the BJP in the “best interest” – a total of 20 defectors are in fray in phase two of the Lok Sabha elections to be held across 89 constituencies in 13 states on April 26.

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J-K: Police on high alert ahead of polling in Jammu; drones, sniffer dogs being used

Ahead of the voting in Jammu during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the security personnel are on high alert and are carrying out patrolling in vulnerable areas. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Know Your Turncoats, Part 6: 20 defectors in Phase 2, including 7 who shifted from Cong to BJP

A total of 89 constituencies across 13 states are polling in the phase two of the Lok Sabha elections on April 26. This is D-day for many big names including Rahul Gandhi, Bhupesh Baghel, Hema Malini and Arun Govil.

The Hindu

Lok Sabha polls | In Alappuzha, K.C. Venugopal faces the most unique electoral contest of his lifetime

Alappuzha election battle between K.C. Venugopal and CPI(M) in Kerala reflects national opposition alliance challenges.

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Lok sabha polls: Re-polling announced at 11 polling booths in Manipur on April 22 after incidents of firing, clashes reported

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