The Hindu Morning Digest

April 15, 2024 06:18 am | Updated 06:18 am IST BJP manifesto drops NRC, says CAA to give citizenship to all ‘eligible persons’ The BJP has dropped compilation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) from its manifesto that was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14. NRC …...Read More

Samajwadi Party declares candidates for 7 more Lok Sabha seats

April 15, 2024 06:15 am | Updated 06:15 am IST - Lucknow The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday declared candidates for seven more Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. With this, the U.P. centric party led by Akhilesh Yadav till now has announced the names of 57 candidates in the …...Read More

Former Odisha CM J. B. Patnaik’s son makes electoral debut

April 15, 2024 06:00 am | Updated 06:00 am IST - BHUBANESWAR The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the All India Congress Committee released a list of 75 candidates for the Odisha assembly elections on Sunday. Former Chief Minister late J. B. Patnaik’s son, Pruthvi Ballav Patnaik, is making his …...Read More

"Moment Of Introspection For Media": Election Commission On Exit Polls

Exit polls create expectations that cannot always be met and before getting hopes up, one should look into the specifics of the exit poll -- like where it was held and what was the sample size, the Election Commission said today while announcing the poll dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand. …...Read More

Delhi Man Buys iPhone After Selling 'Fake' Diljit Concert Tickets, Arrested

Diljit Dosanjh's concert will be held on October 26 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. A B.Tech dropout has been arrested for allegedly duping several people of lakhs of rupees by selling fake tickets for the upcoming Diljit Dosanjh's concert in Delhi, officials said on Tuesday. After selling the tickets, Kaushik …...Read More

Give NDA allies ‘a chance to rule’, says Pawan

April 15, 2024 05:20 am | Updated 05:20 am IST - VIJAYAWADA Jana Sena Party (JSP) president Pawan Kalyan made a fervent appeal to the electorate to give the JSP-TDP-BJP alliance “a chance to rule,” by promising to deliver their best. He observed that he endured defeats and insults for …...Read More

Dangerous moments in foreign affairs can bring a party together but Sunak faces his own domestic battles

MPs return to Westminster today after two weeks away, to the possibility of dangerous escalation in the Middle East. But this is a week the prime minister will also need to avoid danger domestically if he is to see through some of the key policies on which his political survival …...Read More

RJD and Congress are enemies of the Backward Classes, says Rajnath Singh

April 15, 2024 03:43 am | Updated 03:43 am IST - Patna Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, while campaigning for the Jamui Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, lashed out at the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) over a remark made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. …...Read More

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killer shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan

April 15, 2024 02:32 am | Updated 02:32 am IST - New Delhi Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, an accused in the murder of Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh and a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit founder Hafiz Sayeed, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on …...Read More

An offer, an uproar, and a rejection

April 15, 2024 02:22 am | Updated 02:23 am IST On April 1, the president of the Kerala unit of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), Muvattupuzha Ashraf Moulvi, held a press conference and offered support to the Congress in the State in the Lok Sabha elections. The SDPI …...Read More