At least 45 state employees in Gurgaon have sought exemption from election duty citing excuses like hypertension, backache and ankle sprain.
Upamanyu Hazarika, a Supreme Court lawyer—is an independent candidate for the prestigious Gauhati Lok Sabha seat, which goes to the polls on April 23.
Trinamool’s candidate from the Jadavpur Lok Sabha seat, Mimi Chakraborty speaks to Outlook on her political debut and BJP's ambitions in Bengal.
Uttarakhand CM and four-time MP Harish Rawat says the common man has made up his mind about who should form the next government.
Kanimozhi chose little-known S. Velusamy, DMK’s Vilathikulam panchayat secretary, to be her dummy candidate for the Thoothukudi seat so she can still put up a serious fight in case her nomination papers are rejected.
They look similar,their voice is perfectly modulated them and they even impersonate them. Meet lookalikes of our netas.
Long known as the ‘Leningrad of Bihar’ due to the Left’s strong influence, Begusarai has all but lost those moorings with RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav’s rise in the post-Mandal era
Urmila Matondkar, who joined the Congress recently, speaks to Outlook on her political debut and why she believes the BJP must be voted out.
Even as Rahul Gandhi and JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda fronted a rally in Bangalore, their party units held joint meetings elsewhere.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest from Kerala’s Wayanad has opened up a whole thick rainforest of debates.
A sense of security as party leader slid in gradually, after Karunanidhi. Meet the transformed Stalin.
Environment-friendly, tasty and modish, edible crockery and cutlery are going down the gullet
Entwined identically at birth, the many pairs of twins reared on the fecund soil of UP’s Umri typify one of nature’s inscrutable ways
Saba Khan is the district secretary in minority women’s wing of Samajwadi Party.
Higher production and stagnant demand leave farmers with rising unpaid dues once again
Higher production and stagnant demand leave farmers with rising unpaid dues once again
A journey through the electoral battle at its most fascinating and vicious—where the foot soldiers fight it out
24-year-old Vishuv Mishra is Amethi district general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP’s youth wing.
Today, the Model Code of Conduct seems like a witless anachronism—like a driving manual in the age of automated, driverless cars.
40-year-old Dharmendra Kumar Bhagat is eager to give his all to ensure the victory of Paswan’s younger brother, Pashupati Kumar Paras, LJP’s nominee from the seat.
40-year-old Dharmendra Kumar Bhagat is eager to give his all to ensure the victory of Paswan’s younger brother, Pashupati Kumar Paras, LJP’s nominee from the seat.
40-year-old Dharmendra Kumar Bhagat is eager to give his all to ensure the victory of Paswan’s younger brother, Pashupati Kumar Paras, LJP’s nominee from the seat.
An Indian flavour imparts this fiercely imagined science fiction a special charge
The Graham Staines Story, Manav Banerjee and Barun Banerjee: Read Outlook Editor Ruben Banerjee's diary to decode the Banerjee mystery.
Sonamoni Khatun, a third-year BA student, is campaigning for Trinamool Congress' candidate Nusrat Jahan.
Prabhakar Sawant and Raj Rajapurkar are the grassroots worker of the NCP.
75-year-old Ali Mohammad Kumar says he raises slogans during the NC rallies out of "love for the party".
Koteswara Rao Chekuri has created a digital campaign theme to support Naidu this election: “Malli mere ravali” (You must return to power).
Pramod Senapati, a worker of the BJD since 2004, believes that the party will romp to power once again and win a majority of Lok Sabha seats too.
Sushila Devi has served a five-year term as the mukhiya of her panchayat and is a committed grassroots worker of the RJD.
A. Ravikrishnan and T. Nandakumar worked with the DMK and AIADMK respectively.
Together with other volunteers, Puja Badola is busy campaigning for Atishi, the AAP’s Lok Sabha candidate for the East Delhi constituency.
T Kamalakshamma remembers attending Indira Gandhi’s election speeches in the region in 1978 with her first born in tow. In 1983, she became a member of the Congress.
K.Y. Baby, a staunch CPM worker for three decades, believes his party will turn the tables on its rivals.
As a dedicated member of the Asom Gana Parishad, ever since the party was formed in 1985, SrikantaDeka has experienced the joys of victory and despondency of defeats in equal measure.
A well-lit magnetic thespian and his lifelong influence over typecast and rounded others
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Two international agencies predict ‘dry’ monsoon; state agencies say too early to call
