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Topic2018 assembly elections

Topic: 2018 assembly elections

Leadership must own up to defeat and failures, says union minister Nitin Gadkari

He advised the defeated candidates not to transfer the blame on others.

Mizoram might be small, but it offers us big lessons in peacemaking

It's time we focused on the fifth state that went to vote for the richness and diversity it has given India. 

Amit Shah to visit Telangana to review BJP’s assembly poll performance

The BJP won only one assembly seat in the Telangana state elections of the total 119.

BJP out on a no ball, and Modi’s travel expenditure

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Assembly poll results will have some impact on Lok Sabha elections: Amit Shah

BJP is lining up series of rallies, likely to start December-end, to be addressed by Modi. These rallies will be targeted at clusters of parliamentary seats.

6 reasons why 2019 is still Narendra Modi’s to lose

Narendra Modi is down but not out. Just because the BJP has lost critical state polls, which were dubbed ‘semi-finals’, there is no certainty that...

Congress party’s recovery and the chest that really matters

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

NOTA outperforms SP, AAP, NCP & others in assembly polls for five states

The None of the Above votes ranged as high as 2.1 per cent in Chhattisgarh to 0.5 per cent in Mizoram, said the Election Commission.

This election loss has 10 lessons. BJP can choose to learn them or kiss 2019 goodbye

To begin with, the BJP needs some humility and accept that it no longer has a Supreme Leader who can make lamp-posts win.

On Camera

Distracted Russia is losing central Asia to China

Chinese commentaries highlight the launch of the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway and a $1 billion mining deal between China and Kazakhstan, as signs of a quiet pivot toward Beijing.

Three yrs since launch, govt-backed e-commerce network ONDC is a tortoise running with the hares

Built as a novel concept to ‘democratise’ e-commerce in India, ONDC has seen limited success in specific pockets. But it’s still an emerging player in a highly competitive market.

India’s 1st-of-its-kind INS Arnala set to guard coastal waters against submarine intrusions

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission INS Arnala, the country’s first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), at Visakhapatnam dockyard on...

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.