General Elections 2024

From IT bots to AI deepfakes: The evolution of election-related misinformation in India 

Election season calls for a game of Real or Fake. Take this pithy declaration in WhatsApp circulatio...

Election Commission of India’s website blocked for users abroad

The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s website has been blocked outside India for months. The impa...

Air India Express offers 19% discount for first-time voters flying home to cast their votes

Air India Express has unveiled #VoteAsYouAre initiative, to encourage first time voters to exercise ...

Election-bound Tamil Nadu among top States in many socio-economic measures: Data

An analysis of economic, social and environmental indicators of Tamil Nadu, which is headed to the n...

Inheritance tax in India | History, abolishment and revival attempts

A debate has arisen in India over ‘Inheritance tax’ following Indian Overseas Congress chairman Sam ...

Inheritance tax could nullify India's decade of progress, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday, April 26, 2024, cast her vote at a polling boot...

RBI survey shows why livelihood issues are in focus in 2024 polls

The findings of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s consumer confidence survey, conducted in March in ...

Satire | Whose wealth is it?

It’s shocking how the Election Commission (EC) has become a mute spectator to repeated violations of...

Fake videos of Modi aides trigger political showdown in India election

Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India's election, with fake cl...

Russia accuses U.S. of meddling in India’s internal affairs, ‘complicating’ Lok Sabha elections

The U.S. has not yet provided any reliable evidence of the involvement of Indian citizens in the mur...

X’s fact checking feature falters in India during polls, amid automation and polarisation

Even as news organisations and fact checking outlets pushed back on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...

FPIs withdraw ₹17,000 crore from equities in May on political uncertainty amid general election

Foreign investors pulled out a massive ₹17,000 crore from Indian equities in the first 10 days of th...

Making a shift from boardroom to the heat and dust of electoral battlefield

It has been a marked shift for Santrupt Misra, who took voluntary retirement from his high-flying co...

OpenAI says stalled attempts by Israel-based company to interfere in Indian elections

OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, has said it acted within 24 hours to disrupt deceptive uses of AI i...

Modi 3.0 likely to focus on economic reforms

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans a raft of business-friendly measures if he wins a third te...

Financial markets were given artificial booster dose by exit polls: Congress

As financial markets went for a tumble on June 4 after the trends of the Lok Sabha poll results show...