Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa

Lok Sabha polls 2019: This election season, it’s all about the names

The data shows that in 74 Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies, at least one of the top three contestants in terms of the vote share had to contest against at least one candidate of the same name.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: How the political landscape changed in the last 5 years

The ruling party outperformed the Congress in direct contest states in 2014, but the main opposition party has regained some ground in these areas.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Past performance propels seat-sharing pact of SP, BSP

Out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state, the BSP will contest 38 and the SP 37. The third partner in their alliance, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), is expected to contest three seats.

How share of jobs varies within social groups

While SC/ST workers have a disproportionate share in low-paying occupations, certain sub-castes within the group are better off than the rest.

Congress’s Rs 199 crore income in 2017-18 its lowest in 11 years

The Congress’s income for 2017-18 is a fifth of the Rs 1,027 crore declared by its key opponent, the ruling BJP. In 2016-17, the Congress declared Rs 225 crore of income.

Blocking websites only fuels India’s appetite for porn: Data

Banned and non-banned websites that were analysed together received 2.8 billion visits in both November and December, which is more than their monthly average of 2.3 billion visits between January and October.

BJP far ahead with ₹437cr in donations, says report

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared having received ₹437 crore in donations above ₹20,000 in 2017-18.

2019 polls: ‘Mission 123’ to win seats lost five years ago a challenge for BJP

The BJP contested 428 Lok Sabha seats in 2014, out of which it won 282. It is now focussing on the other seats in the backdrop of defeats in the state elections of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Analysis| Narrative, not Opposition unity, is BJP’s bigger worry ahead of 2019 polls

The BJP won almost half of its 282 seats in 2014 with a vote share of 50% or more. This is 15 percentage points more than the share of BJP victories with a similar vote share between 1989 and 2009.

After 3-0 defeat, BJP now gears up to regain its foothold in tribal areas

Some 5,000 elected representatives of the BJP will congregate in Odisha in February where the party’s agenda for tribals will be finalised.

UPA seals Bihar alliance, NDA reaches out to ally

BSP plays spoiler for Congress and BJP, faces desertion of some core voters

Assembly elections 2018: At the aggregate level, the BSP has improved its performance by winning 10 seats across the three states, which is two more than what it won in 2013. However, this is still five seats fewer than what the party won in the 2008 polls.

Assembly Elections Results 2018: BJP losses cut across demographics

The Bharatiya Janata Party has seen a decline with urban and rural voters, farmers and non-farmers, and among scheduled castes and tribes.

Mizoram assembly elections 2018: How the Congress lost its last bastion

Mizoram assembly elections 2018: Unlike Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Nagaland, the BJP has not made big gains in Mizoram in terms of seats. To be sure, the BJP will have an MLA in the MIzoram assembly for the first time.

Assembly elections 2018: NOTA was the spoiler for BJP in 13 Madhya Pradesh seats

Assembly elections 2018: Early trends safely established how the final seat tally would be in Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Rajasthan and Mizoram.

How languages intersect in India

The share of multilingual population and the dominant languages in the Indian states determine how many Indians can talk to and understand each other.

Air pollution reduces life by 4.3 years, deadlier than smoking and alcohol: Report

Indians would have lived 4.3 years longer if the 2016 air quality met the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual safe air quality guideline of 10 micrograms per cubic metre, according to a report that uses satellite measured PM 2.5 concentration trends.

Age, caste, job, education: What data on couples in India shows

Data for nearly 64,000 couples from the 2015-16 National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) show several trends among Indian couples including that just over 2% married men have a wife who is older while two-thirds of them have only the husband as an earning member of the family.

India ranked 158 in human capital rankings released by University of Washington

The study claims that these rankings give us an idea about the number of years a worker can be expected to work at peak productivity levels between the ages of 20 and 64 years.

AAP and Shiv Sena together got more donations than Congress

The Congress has received less in donations than the Shiv Sena (SHS) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), two regional parties, collectively received in both 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Why linguistic diversity does not mean India is cosmopolitan

While a number of people speak various languages, they remain geographically segregated.

The PDP’s experiments with alliance politics in Jammu and Kashmir

The Peoples Democratic Party’s success in exploiting its first experiment with coalition government in improving its political fortunes might have encouraged it to go in for a coalition with the BJP, a move that has proven to be detrimental to the party.

Seats, vote share of Independent candidates declining in every election

Karnataka had nine independent members in the 2013 assembly. All of them lost their seats this time — eight to the three leading political parties and one to another Independent.

Board exams revive memories of a Kashmiri student killed in protests

Two and a half months after his death, the bright Danish’s board exam admit card arrives at his home in Nadihal village in Jammu and Kashmir, flooding the family with memories and tears.