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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.