Two things stand out in how Kerala voted — LDF has matched UDF in its share of minority voters, and ever-smart voters of Kerala have set, says @_YogendraYadav
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@_YogendraYadav Counting of ballots in Puducherry delayed. Election Commission says counting has been slow due to the heavy load causing a server lag.#PuducherryElections2021
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@_YogendraYadav Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweets out congratulatory messages to Mamata Banerjee as well as M.K. Stalin for their parties’ victories in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
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@_YogendraYadav Kamal Haasan maintains his lead in Coimbatore South. He has polled 1,189 votes more than BJP’s national women’s wing president, Vanathi Srinivasan. #TNElections2021
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@_YogendraYadav NDTV reports counting for Nandigram seat still on, contest between Mamata Banerjee and Suvendhu Adhikari too close to call. #WestBengalPolls
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@_YogendraYadav Kerala has given a verdict in favor of the LDF. But this is not the time to celebrate with great joy as Covid continues to spread, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan #keralaassemblyelection2021
@_YogendraYadav Today’s victory is the victory of the people of Kerala. People have stood by us. The LDF has won more seats than last time. This is our answer to our critics, says Pinarayi Vijayan
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@_YogendraYadav BJP national general secretary CT Ravi congratulates DMK on its victory in Tamil Nadu, says his party accepts the mandate of the people #TNElections2021
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@_YogendraYadav BJP’s E. Sreedharan, popularly known as ‘Metro Man’, loses to Congress’ Shafi Parambil by a margin of 3,859 votes in Palakkad constituency, according to EC #keralaassemblyelection2021
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@_YogendraYadav Himanta Biswa Sarma says he doesn't want to talk about who would become the next CM of Assam, as the decision will be made by the party’s central parliamentary board
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1/5: The Palava flyover in Mumbai had to be shut for traffic barely seven days after its inauguration on 4 July. It had taken seven years to be ready. Bulldozers and JCBs are now back at work, tearing up this newly built road and relaying it with fresh asphalt.
2/5: It’s part of a long list of great Indian infrastructure debacles. Bridges are being built with sharp right-angle turns, many are falling, and highways are cutting through people’s balconies. India is having a civil engineering crisis, unable to keep up with its ambitions.
3/5: Currently, nearly 580 highway projects worth Rs 4 lakh crore reportedly face delays, mostly facing land acquisition issues. And fingers invariably point at India’s civil engineers, raising questions about their abilities.
1/5: Satellite surveillance has emerged as a critical frontier in India’s growing space defence strategy. And India’s 200-odd space tech startups are leading the charge, infusing creativity with cutting-edge technologies.
2/5: From surveillance to reconnaissance to anti-satellite systems, the private sector is upping the ante as India plans to fast-track the launch of 52 dedicated satellites for the Armed Forces.
3/5: After Operation Sindoor, Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, called for private players to not just be vendors but “partners” in national security.
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“The evolution of air power has been rapid. Air force is very sensitive to technology so every generation sees a huge leap in the capability of air power. Coming in close contact with adversaries is a thing of the past now,” Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari (Retd) said at #ThePrintOTC
“Op Sindoor brought a real paradigm shift where we hit them, and hit them hard, where it matters,” Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari (Retd) said in conversation with @ShekharGupta and @sneheshphilip at #ThePrintOTC
1/5: As Operation Sindoor unfolded, fact-checker Mohammed Zubair emerged as the Chief of Information War of the night, separating fact from fiction and calling out old footage being rehashed and repurposed.
2/5: His all-night heroic effort on the frontlines of the disinformation war launched by Pakistan is being showered with praise. It’s a turn of events for the journalist who is perennially in the Right-wing propaganda machine’s line of fire.
3/5: “They’ve shown a lot of appreciation. But whenever I see fake news, I debunk it, regardless of religion and country,” Zubair told ThePrint. “They feel like I’m doing this for the first time, but I’ve been at it for years.”
1/5: FIITJEE made its humble beginnings from Delhi’s Kalu Sarai and with an IITian’s brain to help students crack India’s most prestigious exam that would open the gates of the IITs.
2/5: Now, this empire with a turnover of Rs 2,000 cr is crumbling, with a spate of FIRs being filed against it across cities, & staff alleging non-payment of salaries. For students already under the pressure of Board exams, their centres shutting is nothing short of a nightmare.
3/5: FIITJEE’s fall is worrying for India’s multimillion-dollar coaching industry, which is largely unregulated and in constant flux. It relies heavily on advertising blitzkrieg, hefty fee structure, and a limited pool of talented teachers who can often make or break a business.
The perception of China as an adversarial, hostile and arrogant country is largely stereotypical and not based on looking at China as another culture. Like India, China too is a civilisation: Shyam Saran in conversation with @ShekharGupta at #ThePrintOTC
@ShekharGupta China has a 'visual' culture where the ideogram, image and word are important, but in India, the sound is important. Much of our history is oral, and this contrast determines the prism through which you are looking at the rest of the world: Shyam Saran at #ThePrintOTC
@ShekharGupta Exposure to China was something very new for me when I went to Hong Kong to learn Mandarin after joining the Indian Foreign Service. Previously I had no familiarity with the country: Shyam Saran in conversation with @ShekharGupta at #ThePrintOTC