Much attention will be lavished on caste and community voting intentions in these state polls, very little on boring stuff like agriculture. Yet in MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana, farmers are key election influencers.The farm factor, at the base level, comes from the share of population that works in agriculture - 72.4% in MP, 70% in Chhattisgarh, 62% in Rajasthan and 60% in Telangana....
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WASHINGTON: Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in US history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy's chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the "motion to vacate," drawing together more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of...
NEW DELHI: Close to one lakh Delhi University students will vote to choose their union on Friday after a three-year break that started because of the Covid-19 lockdown.The election is returning to the campus after 2019 with intense campaigns by students' organisations. As the university prepared for the election, on Thursday the varsity became a fortress with heavy security. DU officials held meetings...