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TopicAssembly election

Topic: assembly election

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

On Camera

IndiGo chaos forces DGCA to look inward—spotlight is back on the regulator

The crisis also puts DGCA’s vacancies in the eye of the storm. Naidu told the Rajya Sabha in July this year that 190 out of 410 DGCA vacancies would be filled this year.

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

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.