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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Topic2024 elections

Topic: 2024 elections

Karnataka, Maharashtra—Why Phase 3 could mean BJP falling short of the magic number 272

As in the second phase, the BJP-led NDA’s problem in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is that it has an awful lot of seats to defend — 80 out of the 93 seats that go to polls.

BJP needs to be Bengalified. Go beyond rosogolla, eat pantabhaat, know what’s hodol kutkut

Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.

WhatsApp University PhD in ‘Mangal Gyaan’ & maths isn’t EC, you know

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

Not ‘uniter vs divider’, Indian politics is ‘divider vs divider’ right now

Monumental lapses of memory are responsible for the division bells of our time. Whatever happens in the 2024 elections, we need to fix our education, media, and, of course, our political discourse, in that order.

Surinder Sonia, woman who made Chamkila famous, gets mere 8-10 mins screen time in Imtiaz Ali’s film

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Eau de defection, the scent of the season & the ‘S’ word that scares political parties away

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

Election Commission of India takes strict measures to ensure free, fair, and peaceful electoral process

This decision was taken by the CEC during its meeting with all the states and union territories of India.

Lai Ching-te of Taiwan’s ruling party wins presidential elections

Lai's Democratic Progressive Party, which champions Taiwan's separate identity and rejects China's territorial claims, got an unprecedented third term in the government.

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.