India’s pioneering psephologists slice through the clutter with some revelations: women voter turnout will be higher than men in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The disenfranchisement of women voters is hopefully a result of mere inefficiency, not quite in the same league as the ‘dark arts’ of voter suppression around the world. However, it is a deeply worrying phenomenon of our electoral system.

To emphasise how important the male vote is to the NDA: if no women, only men had voted in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA would have won by an enormous landslide with 376 seats. However, if no men, only women had voted, the NDA would have won 265 seats—which would have been seven seats short of the majority mark.

Most of the criticism of EVMs appears to stem from a knee-jerk mistrust of technology. The authors have studied and analysed EVMs across India first-hand for years, ever since they were first introduced; and feel completely confident that they are tamper- and hack-proof, and cite their reasons for it.

Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala speak to Outlook on their book 'The Verdict' and what makes the 2019 polls the biggest and most important.

This is the first time the Congress and the JD(S) will be facing a Lok Sabha election as pre-poll alli­es. By most accounts, it’s a tricky task.

Wife wages lonely battle for Manipur journalist jailed for Facebook post criticising CM

Post-Pulwama mood settles it for the former BJD leader

Opposition is floundering in their bid to find a viable way to deny BJP the glory and halo of a ‘heroic’ cross-LoC strike.

Security forces’ body count rises in a spate of encounters after the Pulwama attack

At OutlookSpeakOut’s ReImagining Odisha, the participants, ranging from union ministers, to intellectuals, industrialists, thought leaders and artistes, shared their vision for Odisha and what can be done to realise the aspirations.

For now, India seems to have concentrated its focus on increased diplo­ma­tic pressure—something that reportedly bore down heavily on Pakistan after both the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrike.

Return of optimism on the India-Pakistan front doesn’t mean the market will see a rally soon

The Modi government’s affordable flying scheme hasn’t worked so far. Here’s why.

Chippiparai, Tangkhul Hui, Pandikona, Rajapalayam, Mudhol or simply the pariah…the resurgent desi bowwow’s the pet pack

There was no school around. So a family in Assam went ahead and got one built for all its kids.

Sporting bonds are bound across the India-Pak border. They yearn for the stifling siege to lift.

Bollywood’s old patriarchal order is crumbling. The spirited shards of the glass ceiling reflect a bunch of brave young ­actresses leading the revolution.

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