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Review: The Hindi Heartland by Ghazala Wahab

In a town in north India (Shutterstock)
Published on Aug 22, 2025 10:28 pm IST

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book of recipes from the princely state of Rampur, an account of the Hindi belt, a region that greatly influences the nation’s politics, culture, and identity, and a volume on the power of data. (HT Team)
Published on Jul 05, 2025 08:49 am IST

The Asaduddin Owaisi factor in Lok Sabha elections

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi during an election nomination rally for Lok Sabha elections in Hyderabad on April 19.
Updated on Apr 22, 2024 11:36 am IST

Rediscovery of Karpoori Thakur

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Former CM Karpoori Thakur (HT Archive)
Published on Jan 25, 2024 12:02 am IST

Politics in geography

DMK MP DNV Senthil Kumar in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. (ANI)
Published on Dec 07, 2023 10:00 pm IST

What foreign media said about PM Modi as BJP wins MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
Published on Dec 04, 2023 01:15 pm IST

How BJP scripted history to wrest back state from Baghel’s Congress

Navi Mumbai, India - Dec. 3, 2023:BJP party workers celebrate party's victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh at Shivaji Maharaj Chowk Vashi in Navi Mumbai, India, on Sunday, December 3, 2023. (Photo by Bachchan Kumar/ HT PHOTO) (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Dec 04, 2023 08:20 am IST

Govt primary schools in Purvanchal top in studies, discipline in U.P.

A teacher instructing students in a government primary school in Prayagraj. (HT File Photo)
Published on Oct 31, 2023 09:55 pm IST

76,000 words unveiled: Dialect dictionary breaks new ground

Students in a classroom at a government primary school in Prayagraj. (HT file photo)
Published on Sept 09, 2023 01:23 am IST

Can Chirag be BJP’s trump card in Bihar?

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Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) National President Chirag Paswan during a meeting with Union minister Nityanand Rai, in Patna (Lok Janshakti Party Twitter)
Published on Jul 12, 2023 04:02 pm IST

Karnataka polls crucial for Congress to dent BJP’s prospects in 2024

While the tussle between former chief minister Siddaramaiah and state unit president DK Shivakumar is well known, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has announced that the party will not project any chief ministerial face. (File Photo)
Updated on Apr 09, 2023 09:55 am IST

‘Hindutva Lite not an answer to Hindi heartland woes of Congress’: Tharoor

Tharoor’s remarks come following Congress’ washout in the Hindi heartland in the Lok Sabha polls and suggestions by some from both within and outside the party that it needs to counter the BJP narrative of “minority appeasement” and go soft on its secularism refrain.
Updated on Sept 08, 2019 04:56 pm IST

The horror of child-lifting is real; a child goes missing every 10 minutes

India is home to more than 400 million children below the age of 18 years, and is considered one of the countries in which youth and children comprise more than 55% of the population.
Updated on Aug 30, 2019 10:14 pm IST

Modi must utilise the best ideas of his predecessors

That instinct told me that, unlike the genteel Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, Modi and Shah always play to win, never to come an honourable second
Updated on May 25, 2019 07:27 pm IST

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Amit Shah’s master plan for Uttar Pradesh derails SP, BSP

Much before Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bhaujan Samaj Party (BSP) came together, the BJP hunkered down and crafted a strategy to take them on.
Updated on May 24, 2019 09:38 am IST

Rahul Gandhi’s Chowkidar, Rafale slogans fail, Congress wins only a handful seats more

The real cause of concern for the Congress is the reverses in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh where it had defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the assembly elections just six months ago.
Updated on May 16, 2020 11:45 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: In Hindi heartland, BJP may be able to reverse state poll losses

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to bounce back after assembly election losses in three key heartland states and capture a big chunk of the Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, a clutch of exit polls predicted on Sunday.
Updated on May 20, 2019 07:55 pm IST

BJP will be washed out in Hindi heartland, predicts Shatrughan Sinha

Film star and Congress candidate from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha Shatrughan Sinha is addressing a press conference in Patna
Updated on May 18, 2019 11:22 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Mumbai, Hindi heartland states vote in crucial phase of Lok Sabha polls

People stand in queue to cast vote in Mumbai’s Kandivali east. (Photo: Pratik Chorge/HT)
Updated on Apr 29, 2019 09:44 am IST

The BJP’s trump card: Reservations for the economically weaker sections of upper castes

Modi pulled out his ‘trump card’ - ten percent reservations for the economically weaker sections of upper castes
Updated on Jan 08, 2019 07:22 am IST

In first reaction to state polls setback, Amit Shah makes point about 2019

Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah on Wednesday said the party has accepted the results of the recently-concluded assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
Updated on Dec 19, 2018 02:47 pm IST