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Stock Market LIVE: Sensex down 100 pts, Nifty tests 19,750; M&M, banks

Stock Market LIVE updates on November 22, 2023: The BSE MidCap index was flat, while SmallCap index shed 0.9 per cent.

BS Number Wise: In Indian elections, the rich win the vote

Politicians own wealth that the people whose support they seek will take decades to earn

Cows, bulls, jobs, caste

Caste is back and joblessness is the new nationalism and religion. This UP election is a more 'normal' and fiercely contested one after three walkovers

Gujarat Patidar leader Hardik Patel quits Congress months before polls

Gujarat Patidar quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel on Wednesday said he has resigned as the Gujarat Congress working president as well as from the party's primary membership.

Five Union Ministers to campaign for BJP candidate in Odisha by-election

The list submitted to the Election Commission of India by the Odisha BJP unit included names of Union Ministers - Piyush Goel, Dharmendra Pradhan, Pralhad Joshi, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Biseswar Tudu

BJP to hold 3-day high-level meeting in Jaipur ahead of assembly polls

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually attend the meeting and address the party workers

276 candidates switched parties to contest 2022 assembly polls: ADR report

Out of 276 candidates who switched parties during the 2022 assembly polls in five states, 27 per cent left the BSP and 13 per cent left the Congress, poll rights body ADR said

BJP won because Congress was weak but this will change: AAP's Ashok Tanwar

Ashok Tanwar, former Congress chief explains why AAP has failed to make inroads into the state despite trying since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and why it will win in the next Assembly elections

Nadda asks BJP workers in Karnataka to gear up for 2023 assembly polls

He averred that only BJP is a national party based on ideology while others are dynastic parties

BJP will retain power in K'taka with absolute majority in 2023: CM Bommai

Reacting to developments related to the hijab issue, Bommai said that the uniform rule in schools is being followed for many years

Poll victory shows people's trust in PM's leadership; Cong wiped out: Shah

Shah also said Congress is virtually finished in these four states- UP, Goa, Manipur, and Uttarakhand

UP CM's first cabinet meeting extends free ration scheme by three months

A total of 15 crore people are benefiting from the programme in the state, Adityanath said

76 women won recently-held elections in five states: Govt in Rajya Sabha

According to the data, there were 6,944 contestants in the five states, including 760 women. Seventy-six of them won the polls

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The electoral verdict on farm laws

The Centre should consider reviving the scrapped farm laws but only after involving the states

Biren Singh sworn-in as Manipur chief minister for 2nd term

The BJP, in the February-March elections, had secured a thin majority of 32 MLAs in the 60-member Assembly and returned to the power for second consecutive term

Pushkar Dhami: Lost own seat, gets to play second innings as Uttarakhand CM

On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party picked him for the CM's post again, this time for the longer version of the game

N Biren Singh takes oath as Chief Minister of Manipur

BJP retained power in the state by winning an absolute majority with 32 seats in the 60-member House in the recently concluded Assembly polls

Numerically stable in Goa, Manipur

This election means less chance of smaller parties dictating terms to BJP state governments