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Shah claims 'some' parties use infiltrators as vote bank; asks why no infiltration from Raj, Gujarat

Shah claims 'some' parties use infiltrators as vote bank; asks why no infiltration from Raj, Gujarat
Updated on Oct 10, 2025 09:58 pm IST

Haryana assembly polls: GT belt sees rally blitz

On Tuesday, former Union minister and BJP’s Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur was in Karnal to address a corner meeting in favour of local candidate Jagmohan Anand. (HT File)
Updated on Oct 02, 2024 08:30 am IST

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom to support separatism: Jaishankar on Canada

New Delhi, India - April 14, 2024: External Affaris Minister S. Jaishankar during the launch of BJP's Sankalp Patra for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 at BJP HQ, in New Delhi, India, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Photo by Ajay Aggarwal/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)
Updated on May 11, 2024 06:16 am IST

BJP holds high-level meeting to step up outreach to OBCs

The BJP on Thursday holds a high-level meeting to sharpen its outreach among the OBC community. (ANI)
Updated on Nov 03, 2023 01:59 am IST

28 years later, the State Guest House incident is back to the fore

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Mayawati fires Lucknow guesthouse incident salvo at Samajwadi Party (file)
Updated on Apr 12, 2023 11:34 am IST

Jalandhar bypoll: SAD-BSP to declare its candidate today

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal. (HT File Photo)
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 11:33 pm IST

‘You can keep all the credit’: PM Modi attacks opposition over farmers’ protests

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses farmers at the 'Kisan Kalyan' event in Raisen (Madhya Pradesh) through video conferencing, in New Delhi.
Updated on Dec 18, 2020 05:06 pm IST

Vikas Dubey: How India is dysfunctional by demand, writes Chanakya

The system is dysfunctional because different stakeholders have an incentive in ensuring that there remains a wide gap between the normative and the empirical. Dubey’s case is a classic example
Updated on Jul 12, 2020 05:37 am IST

The rise of the new Indian Muslim woman| Analysis

Muslim women are proudly saying that we are Indians and we are Muslims
Published on Jan 23, 2020 06:53 pm IST

Review: Ballots and Breakups by Sunita Aron

Atal Bihari Vajpayee being sworn in by president Shankar Dayal Sharma on 16 May 1996. The government lasted 13 days.
Updated on Nov 01, 2019 07:42 pm IST

Former minister Mange Ram Gupta joins Jannayak Janta Party

Former finance minster Mange Ram Gupta after joining the JJP in Sirsa on Monday
Updated on Sept 30, 2019 11:47 pm IST

The Motor Vehicles Act is a good first step. Now, bring in more reforms | Analysis

The amended law was expected to have a sobering effect on errant drivers, nightmarish traffic in metros and a calming effect on highways. But the states have come up with their usual slogan in the name of the poor, and want to slash the penalty rates, knowing fully well that this will defeat the purpose of the Act, and put lives in jeopardy
Updated on Jul 01, 2020 03:26 am IST

Article 370 move may end rule of 2 families in J-K | Analysis

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and former chief minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti during an all parties meeting, in Srinagar, on Aug. 4, 2019.
Updated on Jun 10, 2020 04:58 am IST

The Opposition’s efforts have failed

The politics of caste, region and religion-based alliances are over.
Published on Jul 01, 2019 08:51 am IST

TMC clarifies after order on schools triggers storm

Minority affairs minister Gias Uddin Molla defended the decision by citing an education budget crunch and stating that his department could sanction funds for projects only in minoritydominated areas.
Updated on Jun 29, 2019 09:40 am IST

Congress to chalk out strategy to win back Dalit support, deal with VBA

Prakash Ambedkar has refused to get into an alliance with the Congress or NCP.
Updated on Jun 09, 2019 07:02 am IST

Punjab: In 20 seats it lost in 2017 polls, BJP wrests 11 from Cong, cuts lead in 9

In all the three seats the BJP won in state polls, it has bettered its vote tally, including Phagwara, Sujanpur and Abohar.
Updated on May 29, 2019 12:12 pm IST

Lok Sabha election results 2019: BJP’s Kailash Choudhary beats Congress’ Manvendra Singh in Barmer

File photo of BJP legislator Kailash Choudhary who defeated Congress’ Manvendra Singh in the Barmer Lok Sabha seat.
Updated on May 24, 2019 12:52 pm IST

Lok Sabha election results 2019: On home turf, BJP wins back key vote banks to sweep state

The party also won the one seat from neighbouring Union Territory of Daman and Diu, where BJP’s Lalubhai Patel retained the seat by beating Congress’ Ketan Patel by 9,942 votes, a marginal improvement over 2014.
Updated on May 24, 2019 01:09 am IST

Senior Cong leader Baig calls General Secy Venugopal a ‘buffoon’

The attack by Baig who was miffed over being denied ticket to contest Lok Sabha polls came after the exit polls predicted a rout for the Congress-JD(S) alliance in Karnataka and NDA’s return to power at the Centre.
Updated on May 22, 2019 06:37 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Muslims hope their vote will translate into better facillities

Muslims residing in Jafrabad and Mustafabad, the areas dotted with unauthorised colonies, said that there are very few schools in their area as compared with the dense population in these neighbourhoods.
Published on May 13, 2019 06:09 am IST

IPL shows fans have transformed into active participants

Fans during the first match of IPL T20 2019 Cricket Tournament between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challenges Bangalore at MAC Stadium in Chennai, Saturday, March 23, 2019
Updated on May 09, 2019 02:54 pm IST

Fear of polarisation tempers Opposition’s Muslim outreach

Some Muslims have started describing themselves privately as the new political untouchables. No party is openly courting them except in constituencies where they make up a decisive majority in the electorate.
Updated on May 09, 2019 08:18 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Delhi’s farmers struggle to protect land, their identity

The urban expanse of the national capital has left little land for the tillers who are faced with the proposition of either selling their land to make way for concrete buildings or wage a battle for identity and survival.
Updated on May 09, 2019 08:53 am IST

Congress now a vote cutting party: PM Modi

Pratapgarh: Prime minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath greet their supporters during an election campaign for Lok Sabha polls, in Pratapgarh.
Published on May 04, 2019 11:22 pm IST

Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: BJP and Congress to fight in Karnataka’s Bidar

Pune, India - January 17, 2019: State election commission and Their Pune district officials organised a public awareness drive about VVPAT machine at many places around the city. People gathered in large numbers at J M road to see the demonstration of the same in Pune, India, on Thursday, January 17, 2019. (Photo by Rahul Raut/HT PHOTO)
Published on Apr 18, 2019 05:56 pm IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Parties go all out to woo Delhi traders hit by sealing drive, GST hiccups

A delegation of traders from Mayapuri met Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
Published on Apr 17, 2019 11:42 am IST

‘Why isn’t lack of safe drinking water a poll issue?’

Lack of access to safe piped water has left people excessively dependent on hand-pumps and bore-wells, many of which are contaminated sources.
Updated on Apr 16, 2019 12:27 pm IST

Our issues not raised in Parliament, give us poll ticket, traders tell BJP

Traders say their demand for an ordinance to stop the sealing process in the capital fell on deaf ears.
Updated on Apr 14, 2019 12:12 pm IST

Safety of women priority in south Delhi, says AAP

Two women at a demonstration of EVM and VVPAT machines by Election Commission officials on Wednesday.
Published on Mar 28, 2019 01:43 am IST