Stock market today: Indian equity benchmark indices, BSE Sensex and Nifty50, rose in trade on Tuesday. While BSE Sensex climbed up over 180 points to near 73,000 levels, Nifty50 was above 22,100. At 9:24 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 72,833.90, up 58 points or 0.079%. Nifty50 was at 22,132.75, up 29 points or 0.13%.On…
A confident Amit Shah asserted that there’s a positive vote in favour of BJP. In an interview with Diwakar and Akhilesh Singh on the eve of the fourth phase of polls, the home minister dismissed the assessment that a drop in turnout and absence of a wave could be impediments. Edited excerpts:TOI: Polls are halfway…
NEW DELHI: Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s call for a face-to-face debate on Lok Sabha elections with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP on Saturday questioned his knowledge of poll issues as well as his standing in Congress party, noting that he is neither the president of his party nor the leader of opposition in Parliament.At a…
JHARSUGUDA: BJD leader V K Pandian on Friday said he would quit politics if chief minister Naveen Patnaik doesn’t return to power with a three-fourth majority and dared Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan to do the same if BJP loses the elections in Odisha.“I will retire from politics if Naveen Patnaik doesn’t become the CM of…
The first-past-the-post system of voting — where electors cast a vote for a single candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins — can often lead to counterintuitive outcomes. A party’s gain or loss of seats can many times be disproportional to its vote share. If a party crosses its ‘threshold votes’, it gains…
BJP may have become more visible across the southern states in these Lok Sabha elections with a slew of campaigns by PM Narendra Modi and others, but for it to go beyond Karnataka, it needs a foothold in Telangana. India’s newest state, carved out of a united Andhra Pradesh, has some key ingredients to make…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a rally speech on Saturday, claimed that the previous Congress governments’ approach towards Pakistan was ‘weak’ in handling terrorism issues. He highlighted that past administrations resorted to sending ‘love letters’ to Pakistan, hoping for peace, only to receive more terrorists in response.PM Modi highlighted a significant shift in…
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As the political atmosphere heats up in north Karnataka, which encompasses 14 constituencies, ahead of polling on May 7, all eyes are on the Lingayat community, a dominant caste in the region. The Lingayats, constituting the state’s largest single community, make up nearly 17% of the 5.3 crore electorate, while the Vokkaligas, another politically significant…
As the political atmosphere heats up in north Karnataka, which encompasses 14 constituencies, ahead of polling on May 7, all eyes are on the Lingayat community, a dominant caste in the region. The Lingayats, constituting the state’s largest single community, make up nearly 17% of the 5.3 crore electorate, while the Vokkaligas, another politically significant…
