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Shock market

A stock exchange set up to make share trading transparent is now tangled in controversies

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra : We Are In For The Long Haul In Uttar Pradesh

Interview Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Congress general secretary

BLOCK CHAIN

FROM UNHAPPY LEGISLATORS TO DISGRUNTLED DALITS, MUSLIMS AND YOUTH, CHIEF MINISTER YOGI ADITYANATH’S RETURN TO POWER IS RIDDLED WITH CHALLENGES

Hindutva And Welfarism Drive The BJP's Push To Retain Power

The BJP Is banking on hindutva and development to win this election. But it is battling anti-incumbency, anger over key issues and an opposition that is up for a fight. With an unpredictable electorate, there is no knowing which way the state will vote

BILLS OF CHANGE

The digital rupee offers a host of benefits, but there will be collateral damage

Murder by malware

Investigations into Pegasus-related scandals worldwide show an urgent need for India to reform its obsolete surveillance laws

My purpose of existence is to serve people

INTERVIEW - YOGI ADITYANATH chief minister, Uttar Pradesh

SHE CHANGE

Congress places its hopes on women. Will the gambit work?

Road to Atmanirbhar Bharat is through science

DR JITENDRA SINGH Union minister of state for science and technology, earth sciences, departments of atomic energy and space

FOR WHOM THE GANGA FLOWS

A walk through the ghats of Varanasi and its fringes, capturing the flavours of the election season

CASTE IN STONE

Identity politics and polarisation remain the key tool for most political parties to mobilise voters

Aunty incumbency factor

Abhishek Banerjee had been steadily taking over the Trinamool Congress, but Mamata is not yet ready to let go

How Political Parties Are Wooing Voters Online

With restrictions on in-person campaigning, political parties are wooing voters online

POLITICALLY CORRECT BUDGET

Economist Sachin Chaturvedi decoded the Union Budget at the 23rd edition of the Malayala Manorama annual budget lecture

Taking the mela route to Antyodaya

The cause of the poor and those living on the margins remains close to the heart of the Haryana Chief Minister, Sh.Manohar Lal.

Polls flag off name game

A video of five policemen, who were working in an Uttar Pradesh prison, dancing and shouting “Jayant Chaudhary zindabad” appeared recently on social media with a comment that voters’ mood was changing in western UP.

Weathering the broom

Rebels, turncoats and a fledgling AAP have queered the pitch for the Congress and the BJP

FOR BLESSINGS, FOR VOTES

Ahead of the polls, political leaders of all hues are knocking at the doors of deras

Bad blood and the Board

Exclusive excerpts from veteran cricket administrator Ratnakar Shetty’s new book

HOW TO BEAT VIRUSES AND OTHER BIOTHREATS

Last September, health ministers from G20 nations, including India, met in Rome to discuss pandemic threats from nature.

CHEETAHS CAN'T FLY

To keep pilots safe and to better service high-altitude regions, India’s obsolete Cheetah helicopters must go

Ukraine Crisis - Putin Taunts The West

As Russia marks the centenary of the founding of the Soviet Union, President Vladimir Putin seems to be using the Ukraine crisis to reassert Russian hegemony in erstwhile Soviet republics and regain influence at the global high table

THE TRACTOR FORCE

New entrant Sanyukt Samaj Morcha hopes to cash in on the pro-farmer sentiment following the agitation against farm laws

SHOTS AND MOONSHOTS

Nirmala Sitharaman’s ‘booster’ budget is aimed at taking India to the global economy’s high table, but over-optimism and ignorance of ground realities could spoil the party

THE WAR WITHIN

Weighed down by the Channi-Sidhu rivalry, the Congress is struggling to counter the AAP's burgeoning prospects in Punjab

Joke's on me

Kapil Sharma finds humour even in stressful situations

MANN ON A MISSION

After being named the AAP's chief ministerial face in Punjab, Bhagwant Mann is at a crucial juncture in his political journey, and on the cusp of the big league

GROWTH SUPPLEMENT

High capital expenditure will boost the economy, but sluggish consumer demand and fiscal deficit remain a concern

FIRST SHOW

In Goa, quite a few debutants are making their electoral foray. Most of them are not new to politics though

DOSE-DUMPED LAND

The drug menace, and the nexus between drug peddlers and politicians, will be a key electoral issue