A beaming Amarinder Singh thanked the people of the state for their overwhelming support, saying he was committed to good governance and tackling the drug menace.
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Even as Kiran Kumar Reddy has quit the Congress and resigned as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, protesting against the division of the state, veteran Congress leader and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh says he, too, will quit the party if its central leadership removes him from the post of chief minister, after the elections.
Residents near the border have been asked to switch off lights at night. Farmers whose agriculture land is beyond the fencing wire were ordered not to visit their fields.
Namrata Thakker is impressed with the format and the jodis.
State of Siege 26/ 11 leaves you shocked and wide-eyed, says Joginder Tuteja.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
It is as much about farmer woes and the lack of job opportunities as about the mixing of religion and politics.
Most villagers decided to stay back to harvest crops, their only source of livelihood.
Punjab has around 19.7 million voters, of whom 53% are below the age of 40 years.
Why does Punjab's CM find it hard to fulfill poll promises?
Nagla Fatela, the village Prime Minister said had finally got electricity, is still without power, as are 1,282 other habitats in this UP district. Now, officials are scurrying to realise Modi's claim.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar wants the Modi government and BJP to reap the profit of the surgical strikes. But electoral history suggests a political party's ability to exploit military successes for poll gains has a mixed record.
There is anti-incumbency in urban areas. Rural Punjab, the Akali base, will hold the key.
'Modi has said the poor are sleeping peacefully and the rich are buying sleeping pills.' 'The reality is the other way around.' 'Poor people are not able to sleep because of hunger.'
Third of faculty positions vacant. One per cent seats empty. New institutes lag in infrastructure, research.
Mayawati is now gearing up for a fresh start for the 2019 general election. Unconfirmed reports from the BSP camp suggest she has already reached out to arch-rival Akhilesh Yadav, reports Sahil Makkar.
Anti-incumbency sentiment in Punjab puts SAD in a weak spot. But voters remain divided over AAP and Congress. Sahil Makkar reports.
The only factor working against the AAP, and in favour of the Congress, is the infighting in the former.
Centre clears eight new schools to bridge regional imbalance in the armed forces.
In Bundelkhand, support for Narendra Modi seems to cut across the caste barriers; even so, a vigorous and 4-cornered tussle is on the cards. Sahil Makkar reports
Devotees from as far away as Nepal throng Sant Rampal's ashram for blessings, particularly the kheer made from the milk in which he takes his daily bath. That's how revered the godman is. But all that might be coming to an end.
Akhilesh believes his catchment area is the 4.1 million new voters who are 18 to 19 years old.
Even as there is a strong anti-incumbency mood in Punjab, the multi-cornered contest has made the 2017 assembly polls prediction more difficult.
While the IMD had forecast a 'normal' monsoon for the entire season, Skymet stated that rain this year would be 'below normal', report Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Sahil Makkar.
'...and the government is suppressing the truth.'
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje breaks her silence.
'She should review her strategy of social engineering and get back to the BSP's initial plank of social change.'
'We could crack IM modules in the country because one arrested member would spill beans on the other.' 'With ISIS, every module is different and is possibly being handled by different operators abroad.'
The National Investigation Agency has accused the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad of planting evidence and coercing witnesses, but its own investigation is incomplete and leaves many questions unanswered.
The underclass voted heavily in favour of AAP, which led to their victory
Till 2000, K N Govindacharya, former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak, was considered the Bharatiya Janata party's chief ideologue. Govindacharya, who now heads the Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan, which opposes anti-people policies of governments, tells Sahil Makkar and Archis Mohan the Narendra Modi-led government is still in the election mode.
A tussle between the Delhi government and the Lt Governor has left bureaucrats vulnerable to sudden transfers.
ugar mills in UP owe thousands of crores to cane farmers.
Recent investigations into the telecom spectrum and coal scams have made bureaucrats very wary of taking decisions.
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