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Borderlands 4: Release date, time, where to play, editions and more

Borderlands 4 release date, time and more
Published on Sept 08, 2025 09:20 pm IST

Maharashtra, Jharkhand Assembly elections: People’s issues missing yet again

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde being garlanded during a public meeting for the state Assembly election in Nandurbar on Sunday. (ANI Photo)
Updated on Nov 18, 2024 02:01 pm IST

HT Explains: A 5-point FAQ on the Lok Sabha battle in Punjab

AAP appears to be in the pole position in Punjab. (REUTERS)
Published on May 17, 2024 07:40 am IST

Apple growers from Himachal, J&K, Uttarakhand protest at Jantar Mantar

Apple farmers from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday participated in a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi over no import duty on imported apple and end of market intervention scheme by the Central government that allowed states to produce agriculture produce in 17 states. (HT Photo)
Updated on Apr 04, 2023 10:29 pm IST

Highlights of Maharashtra Assembly elections 2019

Voters queue up to cast their vote at Colaba on Monday.
Updated on Oct 22, 2019 12:31 am IST

BJP confident farm crisis won’t dent prospects in Maharashtra assembly poll

The floods and delayed rainfall this year are unlikely to help the crop.
Updated on Oct 08, 2019 05:48 am IST

Lok Sabha election results 2019: DMK shines in south as MK Stalin rises

The DMK-led alliance, which included the Congress, has won 37 out of 38 seats which went to polls.
Updated on May 24, 2019 12:59 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP shakes off Patidar stir in Gujarat, farm crisis to take over home turf

Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate the party's victory in the Lok Sabha elections, at party headquarters, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Updated on May 24, 2019 12:45 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Farm crisis a key issue in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa

Khandwa Lok Sabha seat that goes to polls on May 19 is seen as a communally sensitive spot in Madhya Pradesh.
Updated on May 14, 2019 08:08 am IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Farm crisis, factionalism major issues for BJP Kota candidate Om Birla

Kota MP Om Birla is the BJP candidate from the seat in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Updated on Apr 03, 2019 12:27 pm IST

With rural economy as leading theme of polls, the policy options to address farm crisis

A farmer working in his paddy field at Bothgarh outskirts of Morinda town on Ludhiana road 30kms from Chandigarh.
Updated on Mar 23, 2019 08:29 pm IST

Balakot: The fallout will be political

National Akali Dal members shout anti-Pakistan slogans, New Delhi, February 26, 2019
Updated on Mar 04, 2019 12:58 pm IST

Review: A Rural Manifesto by Varun Gandhi

Author and UP Sultanpur MP Varun Gandhi.
Updated on Mar 01, 2019 05:57 pm IST

Parliament Highlights| People who looted this country will have to be scared: PM Modi

New Delhi, Feb 07 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Budget Session in Lok Sabha on Thursday. (ANI Photo)
Updated on Feb 07, 2019 08:37 pm IST

Budget: Cash dole for small farmers, but experts say it may fall short

Admitting “reduced” returns in farming, the government in its interim budget on Friday announced a cash-transfer scheme for small farmers, along with a focus on non-crop sectors within agriculture.
Updated on Feb 02, 2019 05:45 pm IST

Party spirit ahead of polls: ‘Shiv Sena is, will always be big brother in Maha’

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray with Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Updated on Jan 28, 2019 11:35 pm IST

Centre pumps in over 6000 crore in MGNREGS scheme

The Centre has pumped in an additional 6,084 crore in the flagship rural job programme, widely seen as a part of its resource mobilization to spruce up the rural and agricultural sector ahead of the election.
Updated on Jan 16, 2019 12:14 am IST

Procurement worth 30,000 crore failed to lift prices of pulses: Nafed

A farmer in Kota engaged in the cultivation of Kharif crops.
Published on Jan 06, 2019 07:46 am IST

Farmers on the edge, but solutions remain elusive

Short-lived solutions, like farm-loan waivers, can make a bad problem worse, since they don’t address underlying issues.
Updated on Dec 31, 2018 08:00 am IST

Assembly election results 2018: Farm crisis deals a blow to BJP’s election harvest

A protest rally by farmers in New Delhi last month.
Updated on Dec 12, 2018 02:07 pm IST

Why resolving India’s farm crisis is important

Participating farmers in the Kisan Mukti March, in New Delhi, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Farmers from 24 states have joined the protest to press for their demands, including debt relief and remunerative prices for their produce.
Updated on Dec 01, 2018 12:23 pm IST

The demand for a special Parliament session on the agrarian crisis makes sense

Farmers march during a protest rally demanding loan waivers and the transfer of forest lands to villagers who have farmed there for decades, Mumbai, November 22
Updated on Nov 28, 2018 12:12 pm IST

Subsidies may be a hidden culprit in India’s farm crisis

The research claims that governments have raised inefficient input subsidies over the years, which, in turn, have virtually turned the tap off for new investment.
Updated on Nov 02, 2018 11:33 am IST

Protests are politically motivated, farmers used as fodder, says RSS affiliate

Farmers at NH24 after a day long protest at Ghazipur on the outskirts of New Delhi on Tuesday.
Published on Oct 02, 2018 11:59 pm IST

NITI Aayog calls farmers’ panel formula impractical

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Vice Chairman.
Updated on Jul 03, 2018 11:20 pm IST