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    New Delhi election candidate breaks down over vicious pamphlet

    09 May 2019

    The pamphlet said she was married to a Christian — "i.e. a Beef Eater" — and was pregnant by an illegitimate member of a low-caste, and therefore a "prostitute."

    Navy ex-officers slam Modi’s allegations against Rajiv

    09 May 2019

    India’s main opposition Congress party on Thursday hit back with force at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his allegation that late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had misused a Navy warship for a family vacation, even as a retired vice-admiral clarified that Rajiv and family were on board the INS Virat only for an official tour.

    Masked attackers snatch voting machines in northeast India

    22 May 2019

    "About 500 miscreants attacked our polling team and also resorted to firing although no one was injured," Sunil Garg, the state police inspector general told Reuters by telephone.

    Indian man amputates finger after mistakenly voting for Modi's party

    19 Apr 2019

    In a video that has gone viral on social media, Pawan Kumar said he became confused by the symbols on the electronic voting machine and voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party instead of its regional rival in Uttar Pradesh state on Thursday.

    Distraught, Kumar went home and chopped off his finger with a meat cleaver.

    Militants kill politician ahead of new round of India vote

    05 May 2019

    The militants opened fire on Gul Mohammad Mir, who belonged to a local unit of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), at his house in south Kashmir on Saturday night.

    India poll panel puts curbs on Yogi, Mayawati campaign

    15 Apr 2019

    The Election Commission on Monday barred BSP chief Mayawati and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections for 48 and 72 hours respectively.

    How Chidambaram’s arrest became a TV drama

    28 Aug 2019

    Bollywood stunt artistes would end up with fractured bones if they tried to imitate CBIs field staff scaling the high walls of former Home Minister, P. Chidambaram’s Jor Bagh bungalow with orders to arrest him.

    The impact of change seems to be illusory

    08 Sep 2019

    Hardline Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have celebrated the creation of a new Buddhist entity in Ladakh. It is an optical illusion that Jammu and Kashmir has been neatly divided into Jammu,

    Lacklustre budget

    08 Jul 2019

    India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s maiden budget is akin to a manifesto handed by politicians to voters ahead of an election — full of promises but no concrete plan on how those promises will be achieved (‘Indian budget to create a $5 trillion economy by ‘25’, July 6, Gulf Today). The budget boasts of creating

    Unruly BJP supporters ruin Modi’s image

    08 Jul 2019

    Since becoming the Prime Minister five years ago Narendra Modi has been involved in a tireless round of foreign travels to win friends for the country and for himself. Just before this year’s election in which he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a successive second term, The time has come for the party to consider

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