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Saturday, November 8, 2025
Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

How to counter the criticism of jobless growth? Modi to figure out with experts tomorrow

The PM's meeting with economists and analysts assumes significance as it comes just months ahead of four crucial assembly elections end of the year.

Lok Sabha elections for breakfast and a diluted liquor law

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

Don’t oppose simultaneous elections just because it is Narendra Modi’s idea

At any given time, on an average, six states and about 160 million people in India are perpetually on election mode every year.

Section 377 at Supreme Court’s doorstep and Mumbai’s latest local transport

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

Stop counting state by state. 2019 will be a national election

Unity or not, the opposition needs to think national to challenge Narendra Modi in 2019 elections.

Numbers are stacked against BJP in election for Rajya Sabha deputy chairman

The Congress has always held the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman’s post, except once.  

Atheist CPI(M) to ‘back’ Ramayana month events in Kerala

The party claims the idea is to encourage Sanskrit scholars vying to protect religion from communal forces.

Now BJP fears sabotage by turncoats, Amit Shah wants party leaders to do due diligence

BJP chief wants state leaders to check antecedents and value of those wanting to switch parties ahead of 2019.

A garlanding gone too far and the AAP-LG fiasco

The best cartoons of the day

MSP hike is an election bonanza. It shows that Modi & BJP are nervous for 2019

Economists have questioned such programmes. But BJP strategists felt something needed to be done about agrarian distress.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.