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Recent poll results and surveys show that women have the power to swing electoral fortunes. Can Priyanka persuade them to back the Congress in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly poll?

The Opposition is hoping for a rich election harvest in Uttar Pradesh but Lucknow appears to be a long way from the killing fields.

A closer look at the demographic equations in UP makes it clear why there is such a fierce fight for the non-Yadav OBC vote.

As India recorded more than 234,000 new Covid-19 infections last Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an election rally in the West Bengal town of Asansol and tweeted: “I’ve never seen such huge crowds.”The second wave of the coronavirus has since grown into a tsunami. India is now the global coronavirus hotspot, setting records for the world’s highest number of daily cases. Images of hospitals overflowing with the sick and dying are flooding social media, as medical staff and th...

Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders met Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and the state’s health minister T.S. Singh Deo, who have been at loggerheads over the past few months.

Several parties — from JD(U) & RJD in Bihar, and SP & BSP in UP, to DMK in Tamil Nadu and Trinamool in Bengal — have supported the demand for a caste census.

Information about the most effective antibiotics to use in low and middle income countries (LMICs) for neonatal sepsis has been discovered uniquely...

Can Didi’s ‘Ma, Mati, Manush’ Win The Hindi Heartland? While parties such as AAP and TRS share a good rapport with TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati is likely to pose a challenge for her leadership ambitions. Preetha Nair 28 July 2021, Last Updated at 7:09 am PTI/File Photo Preetha Nair 2021-07-28T00:20:11+05:30 Can Didi’s ‘Ma, Mati, Manush’ Win The Hindi Heartland? outlookindia.com 2021-07-28T07:09:22+05:30 Also read After conquering Wes...

But, surprisingly those who study and report India objectively will agree that data of a leading survey ‘Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation’ by Pew Research Centre largely matches with the socio-religious-cultural realities of the Indian society. Whether these trends are good or bad is another matter but the Pew survey has painted a correct portrait of Indians. A treasure trove of data, the survey shows a billion plus Indians are either pretenders or geniuses (when it comes to in...

›"Bias it is": CMIE chiefs defence of CPHS survey elicits fresh critical response from Jean Drèze, Anmol Somanchi "Bias it is": CMIE chiefs defence of CPHS survey elicits fresh critical response from Jean Drèze, Anmol Somanchi SECTIONS "Bias it is": CMIE chiefs defence of CPHS survey elicits fresh critical response from Jean Drèze, Anmol SomanchiET CONTRIBUTORS Last Updated: Jun 27, 2021, 03:36 PM IST Share Synopsis "The representativeness of CPHS data cannot be assumed from the survey met...