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Topic: assembly election

Election Commission will take final call on Jammu & Kashmir’s assembly polls, says SEC

PTI -
State election commissioner KK Sharma said his mandate was limited to holding polls to urban local bodies and panchayati Raj institutions.

Bypolls for 1 Lok Sabha, 56 assembly seats to be held on 3, 7 November, says EC

PTI -
The bypolls to 54 assembly seats will take place on 3 November, and those for one Lok Sabha seat in Bihar and two assembly seats in Manipur will be held on 7 November.

The curious case of Nitish Kumar — 87% anger, 100% victory

Shivam Vij -
In the supposedly most-politicised state in India, people say they don’t have ‘options’ this election.

Four steps to defeating Modi in 2024. Step one: forget state elections

Shivam Vij -
How Rahul Gandhi — even Rahul Gandhi — can defeat Narendra Modi in 2024.

Not Modi, not Yogi, it is Ram versus the rest for the BJP in UP 2022 election

Ruhi Tewari -
Modi-Shah’s BJP knows the politics of George Bush-esque's binaries is clever and pushes opponents into a corner. That’s exactly what happened with the Ayodhya bhoomi pujan.

The case for postponing Madhya Pradesh and Bihar assembly elections

Shivam Vij -
The Election Commission’s insistence on holding polls in the time of Covid will risk lives and damage democracy.

The BJP should dump Nitish Kumar in Bihar, sooner the better

Shivam Vij -
Nitish Kumar’s poor performance as chief minister is a drag on the BJP’s image in the state.

Yogi Adityanath was given BJP’s third-most important position. And the results are in

Ruhi Tewari -
BJP’s brazen intolerance and majoritarianism only work when combined with welfare schemes. UP CM Adityanath forgot that.

Bengal is the new UP, the most critical state election in Modi’s second term

Shivam Vij -
The defining state election this time — the one with the greatest bearing on the next Lok Sabha elections — is not UP but West Bengal.

Hold off the Indian political ‘turnaround’ story, BJP still has the most MLAs by a distance

Rukmini S -
Even at the height of its dominance during the UPA-I era, the Congress did not have the nationwide strength of MLAs that the BJP now enjoys.
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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

Swasti Rao -
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.

Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Economy

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

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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.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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