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Hindustan Times Delhi
Congress weighed dumping DMK before polls
NEW DELHI: On Monday, even as it became clear that actor C Joseph Vijay's TVK would emerge the single largest party in Tamil Nadu, some Congress leaders were sporting “we told you so” looks.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
FORMER GOA CM, MINISTER GIVEN BAIL IN MONEY LAUNDERING CASE
The Bombay High Court bench in Goa on Monday granted relief to former Goa Chief minister Digambar Kamat and former public works department (PWD) minister Churchill Alemao in a money laundering case linked to the Louis Berger kickback scam.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Local pitch, softer tone, welfare focus helped BJP sweep Bengal
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) bid to shed the “Bohiragoto” (outsider) tag, success in stoking the fear of illegal immigrants, and a campaign that avoided personal comments on West Bengal chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee, even while highlighting misgovernance, worked in West Bengal, giving the party its first-ever electoral success in the state, party leaders said.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
'Democracy, not fear, won': PM hails historic mandate
Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala ousted governments that had one thing in common, divisive politics
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Numbers behind TN’s political earthquake
Median ENOP in Tamil Nadu
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
INDIA footprint shrinks as DMK, TMC face defeat
Two heavyweight INDIA bloc constituents—Trinamool Congress and the DMK—failed to protect their turf, shrinking the Opposition’s footprint further following the latest round of assembly polls.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
From screen to state: Vijay's scripted rise
The question on everyone’s minds when Thalapathi (a Tamil word meaning Commander) Vijay announced the formation of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) in 2024 was simple:
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
33 yrs later, 12 convicted in arms smuggling case linked to Dawood
After over 33 years, a special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court in Jamnagar on Monday convicted 12 persons in a 1993 case involving the smuggling of arms and explosives along the Gujarat coast, linked to fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his associates Tiger Memon and Chhota Shakeel.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Net direct tax collection up 5% in FY26, misses budget target
The Centre's gross direct tax collection in 2025-26 was 228.12 lakh crore as against 227.03 lakh crore in FY25, registering 4.03% increase, but a tighter refund management saw net collection in FY26 rising by 5.12% to 223.40 lakh crore, missing the budget target, according to the government data.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
A Dravidian mutation in Tamil Nadu called TVK
For almost six decades since the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) first captured power, Tamil Nadu has been under the rule of what are commonly known as Dravidian parties.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Who will BJP pick as next chief minister?
Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of opposition in West Bengal assembly, who defeated chief minister Mamata Banerjee in her home constituency Bhabanipur on Monday, has emerged as the front-runner for the chief ministerial postafter the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the assembly polls in the eastern state, party functionaries said.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Antonelli delivering on his pre-season promise
For 30 laps, the No.1 sticker on the papaya-coloured car of Lando Norris loomed large in the rear-view mirrors of Kimi Antonelli.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
How BJP breached the Bengal fortress
Cong nearly wiped out in Assam, BJP returns for the third time with a bigger mandate
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Assam
Few major Indian states have been shaped in the image of the chief minister like Assam has been.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
BJP’s ground game covered booths, bastis and high-rises
The categorisation of poll booths into platinum, gold, silver and bronze, appointment of “high-rise pramukhs” and outreach to NGOs were among the strategies that the Bharatiya Janata Party deployed in West Bengal over the last few months.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Law should address surge in unwanted pregnancies, says SC
The Supreme Court ‘on Monday said the law must address the rising trend of unwanted pregnancies, as it closed a contempt plea against Union health secretary and others over implementation of its order to terminate the pregnancy of a 15-year-old in Delhi.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Rebranded Left lost old cadres, minority support
The landslide victory of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the assembly elections in Kerala was widely anticipated.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
7-YR-OLD HURT IN GR NOIDA CAR CRASH; PARENTS, 1 OTHER KILLED
Three people were killed and a seven-year-old girl sustained injuries after a car crashed into a loaded truck on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) in Dadri early Monday, police said.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Inter win Serie A for 3rd time in 6 seasons
Inter Milan won their third Serie A title in six seasons on Sunday thanks to a comfortable 2-0 win over Parma that ignited the celebrations at a jubilant San Siro and across the city.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Democracy won; people ousted those with divisive politics: Modi
\"Democracy won, not fear,\" Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday after the Bharatiya Janata Party's stellar victory in West Bengal, a first for the party, adding that it was an illustration of people's trust in democratic process and the politics of performance.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
UDF's big gains came in minority dominated districts
The Congress-led-UDF's sweep in Kerala was especially visible in the state's regions with significant minority population.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
No ‘caste colour’ in bail terms, says SC; voids Odisha HC order
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a sweeping direction restraining courts across the country from imposing bail conditions that carry a “caste colour” or risk generating social friction, coming down hard on instances from Odisha where accused persons, many from Dalit and Adivasi communities, were ordered to clean police stations as a precondition for release.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
Left without power in any state since '77
Kerala's voters on Monday rejected the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front's bid to return for a third consecutive term with the alliance winning only 35 out of 140 seats — its worst performance in over four decades.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Ex-NY mayor hospitalised
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani is breathing on his own after being hospitalised with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator, his spokesperson said on Monday.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
SUNSET FOR SATRAPS
Mamata loses seat; BJP deepens presence in east, set to take power in Bengal for first time
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Jaishankar highlights India’s transformation j in infra, tech
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar discussed India’s ongoing transformation in infrastructure, human development and technology-driven governance and entrepreneurship during an interaction with the Indian diaspora in the Jamaican capital.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
U.S. EVACUATES 22 CREW MEMBERS OF SEIZED IRANIAN SHIP TO PAKISTAN
The United States has evacuated 22 crew members, held aboard an Iranian ship seized by its forces, to Pakistan as a “confidence-building measure”, a statement issued by Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
What worked for TVK, ended four decades of Dravidian rule
When Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, TVK, won 107 seats in Tamil Nadu on Monday, defeating the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s 74 seats and pushing the AIADMK-led combine to third with 53 seats, it did so in the manner its leader had designed: as a generational verdict against 40 years of Dravidian duopoly, won on a campaign calibrated to the voters the old parties had stopped speaking to.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
THE RISE AND RISE OF BJP IN ASSAM: HIGHER VOTE SHARE, RECORD MAJORITY
The BJP-led NDA has won Assam for the third consecutive time.
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May 05 2026
Hindustan Times
A boost for NDA, jolt to INDIA bloc
The BJP is the big gainer from this round of assembly elections. The defeat of the DMK and the TMC, two major advocates of federalism, leaves the national Opposition space diminished
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