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A select list of stories to read before you start your day. The government unveiled a production-linked incentive scheme to encourage domestic manufacturing investments in ten more sectors, with an estimated outlay of about ₹1.46 lakh crore over the next five years.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 11 said ...

The BJP has released the first list of candidates for the upcoming District Development Council polls to be conducted on party basis in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.Meanwhile, the parties of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), that is jointly contesting the polls, have decided that the ...

Rejecting BJP State unit president Ashwani Sharma’s allegation of “arm-twisting” the Centre, the Chief Minister said it was the BJP leadership that was inciting farmers with its anti-Punjab stance on the issue.  Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh on Monday termed the railways’ decision to link the movement of ...

Former Indian Administrative Officer Sasikanth Senthil, who had resigned from his position last year, joined the Congress on Monday. Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President KS Alagiri and All India Congress Committee General Secretary Dinesh Gundu Rao were present at the event to welcome him to the party.At the event, ...

  I n a major development but necessarily as a big leap towards strengthening democracy and democratic process, the conglomerate of seven political parties that formed, what they call as “Gupkar Alliance”, have inter-alia, decided to take part in the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) elections in the UT ...

Elections to the DDCs and vacant posts of sarpanch and panch will be held in eight phases from December 1 to December 24, according to a notification issued by the State Election Commission on Friday.Meanwhile, the Congress party will also take part in the DDC elections in the erstwhile ...

Jammu and Kashmir Congress president G.A. Mir said the party intends to ‘fight the wrong and unconstitutional policies of the BJP which has left the people of Jammu and Kashmir unhappy’ The Congress will take part in the upcoming District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir to ...

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) on Saturday announced that it will contest the District Development council (DDC) polls, slated to be held for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir from November 28. The decision of JKPCC comes at a time when the alliance formed by the ...

Christophe Jaffrelot is Avantha Chair and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute, teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po in Paris, and is an Overseas Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work has covered a huge range of South ...

Party calls Union Home Minister’s refugee community outreach as a “poll gimmick”. The Trinamool Congress leadership on Friday slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his “appeasement remark” and said communal politics has no place in Bengal.Mocking Mr. Shah’s scheduled visit to a Matua family for lunch, the party ...