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May 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
A decade ago, in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi, then still the Chief Minister of Gujarat, famously declaimed: “Na khaoonga, na khaane doonga” (Neither will I take bribes, nor will I let others take bribes). He added that he would bring back illegal wealth stashed away in tax havens abroad by rich Indians and distribute the money among the poor—Rs.15 lakh for each poor family.
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May 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran
As part of NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR ) programme, the Perseverance rover has been collecting samples since it landed on the Red Planet in 2021, and the return was scheduled to happen in 2031. However, a NASA statement on April 15 suggests that the mission will have to be reworked with a simpler, less costly, and less risky alternative because of challenges to the original budget of $11 billion. This is also in response to the MSR Independent Review Board report of September 2023.
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May 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
Ajit Mahato is a prominent voice in the long-running movement by the Kurmi community in West Bengal to be granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. Hailing from the Purulia district, where the Kurmi population plays a decisive role in elections, Mahato has been at the forefront of protests and rail blockades demanding ST status for his community.
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May 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
The noose is tightening for Hassan MP, Prajwal Revanna, and his father, MLA H. D. Revanna, as the Special Investigative Team (SIT) formed to probe the massive sex scandal purportedly consisting of more than 2,900 sex videos has formed three sub-teams to investigate the serious crimes.
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May 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.P. Chandrasekhar |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
Less than a year ago, Ajay Banga, a former chief executive of Mastercard, was picked to head the World Bank. Putting a Wall Street player addicted to profits in charge of a development institution claiming to help lift poor countries out of their underdevelopment seemed incongruous.
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May 1, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
gnimitra Paul, the fashion designer turned politician served as the Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Asansol South and the President of the West Bengal unit of BJP Mahila Morcha. She is the BJP’s candidate from Medinipur for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. In an interview with Frontline, she discusses the issues plaguing the State that will dominate voters’ choices, the BJP in West Bengal, the party’s performance in previous elections, and so on.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
Even as political parties in Jammu and Kashmir go about wooing voters for the Lok Sabha election—Anantnag-Rajouri, Srinagar and Baramulla constituencies in Kashmir vote from May 7—the Valley is facing a severe power crisis that has thrown normal life out of gear. The daily power cuts last 13 to 15 hours, plunging the Valley into darkness on most days; the worst affected are patients who rely on home oxygen supply for respiratory illnesses.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ashutosh Sharma |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
The Lok Sabha election discourse in Chhattisgarh is centred around a model of governance and economic development upheld by the ruling BJP and the Congress. But it means little to the near invisible and silent section of Adivasis, who account for 30 per cent of the State’s population but find no party support for their jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) issues.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
Choreographer Sahil Kumar found fame showcasing folk dances on TikTok, but his profile has been dormant since the video he posted four years ago supporting India’s decision to ban the platform. The country’s experience offers a glimpse of what the social media landscape could look like in the United States in 2024, should a move to block local access to the Chinese-owned short video app go ahead.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Lawrence Liang |Vaishna Roy
hile in office, High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay practically became a household name in West Bengal because of a series of rulings in high-profile cases that rocked the State government. These included the scam in the recruitment process of the School Service Commission and the alleged irregularities in various municipality office recruitments. This gained him a reputation as the only man who had succeeded in pinning the Trinamool Congress government into an uncomfortable corner.
