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LS POLLS 2019
China posts weakest growth in 29 years as trade war bites, but ends 2019 on firmer note
China's economic growth slowed to its weakest in nearly 30 years in 2019 amid a bruising trade war with the United States and sputtering investment, and more stimulus steps are expected this year to help avert a sharper slowdown.
China posts weakest growth in 29 years as trade war bites, but ends 2019 on firmer note
Fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) rose 6.0%...
Hope MLAs dropped from Assembly poll candidate list stay in AAP family: Kejriwal
Responding to a question that other parties might try to poa...
At Rs 1,450 cr, BJP got 61% funding via Electoral Bonds before LS polls
Anti-bond Congress raised 41% of its total Rs 918 cr funding through bonds, Trinamool got Rs 97 crore.
China slams US for congratulating Tsai Ing-wen on Taiwan poll win
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as well as top diplomats from Britain and Japan, issued statements congratulating Tsai Ing-wen and the island's democratic elections.
Battered rupee to extend losing streak this year: Poll
The rupee has suffered from persistent weakness in the domestic economy.
JP Nadda likely to take over as BJP chief next week
In the run-up to the 2019 general elections, Nadda was in-charge of BJP's election campaign in the politically most crucial state Uttar Pradesh, where the party faced a tough challenge following the grand alliance between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
CM vs PM: An election like none before
A by-product of the India Against Corruption campaign of 2011-12, AAP came into existence in November 2012 and won 28 seats in the Delhi assembly in 2013 to form a minority government with Congress supporting it from outside. Since assuming power in Delhi in 2015, AAP made efforts to expand elsewhere, but except in Punjab, AAP garnered less votes than NOTA.
Netas open wallets for social media ads as polls loom
While micro-blogging platform Twitter banned political advertising in October, Google curbed ways in which political parties can micro target their campaigns in November. Chinese ByteDance-owned short-video platform TikTok does not allow political advertising at all.
PM-Kisan, mandi reforms steal the show in 2019
The Centre's focus in 2019, continued to be 'kisan kalyan' (farmers' welfare) in the second term of the Modi administration and the policy changes were as per the recommendations by the Dalwai Committee for doubling farmers' 2015-16 income level, in real terms, by 2022.
Jharkhand Election Results: Power shift from 2014 to 2019 in state
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress alliance appears set to form government as it is leading in over 40 seats in Jharkhand, accord...
Jharkhand election results: Early trends show close fight between BJP, opposition alliance
Close fight between BJP, opposition alliance for Jharkhand Assembly. Will BJP regain its momentum?Jharkhand election results: Early trends s...
From Surgical strike to Modi returns 2019 was a super busy year
Narendra Modi led his party to a super-sized victory for a second term as Prime Minister.
Defence in 2019: Balakot air strikes, CDS and military modernisation
The strike by India's warplanes on a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist training camp in Pakistan on February 26 to avenge the killing of 40 paramilitary personnel in Kashmir and the Pakistani Air Force's subsequent retaliation the next day triggered fears of a war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
AAP, BJP, Congress spent 2019 trying to outsmart each other in Delhi
With the BJP winning all the seven parliamentary seats, it seems that Delhi followed the national narrative that drove the parliamentary election. Both AAP and Congress had flirted with each ahead of the election to seal an alliance but couldn't reach a definite agreement and ultimately fought separately.
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