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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicAssembly Elections

Topic: Assembly Elections

Ahead of Assembly elections, Bihar govt transfers 11 IAS, 6 IPS officers

Apart from class-I officers, 36 officers of the Bihar Administrative Service (BAS) were also transferred in the major reshuffle.

SubscriberWrites: Ramblings from The Bund road

My observations from the autumnal election in Srinagar.

TMC says ready to fight 2026 Bengal polls alone if Congress not open to a seat-sharing deal

To tie up with TMC, Congress will have to break ranks with the Left. This comes after a split in anti-BJP votes was seen as the reason for AAP's defeat in Delhi.

Voting commences in over 14,000 booths in final phase of Jharkhand assembly polls

528 candidates, including incumbent CM Hemant Soren and Opposition leader Amar Kumar Bauri, are in the fray for 38 assembly seats.

SubscriberWrites: Confronting Historical Injustices and Shaping the Path Forward

Since 2014 general election, many Hindu organizations have been emboldened by the elected govt, and with its support, they are vigorously pursuing legal action over religious sites.

Maharashtra & Jharkhand’s long list of poll promises reliant on them getting their fiscal maths right

Maharashtra has headroom to spend, but committed expenditure is expected to rise. In Jharkhand, optimistic revenue projections may limit the state govt’s ability to fulfill the promises.

Why is manufacturing at 8-month low despite Make in India, asks Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Ahead of Assembly polls, Maharashtra waives toll for light motor vehicles entering Mumbai

The waiver will be enforced from midnight Monday at five toll booths that cars pass to enter the state capital.

Athawale’s RPI seeks to contest 8-10 seats as part of Mahayuti alliance in upcoming Maharashtra polls

With seat-sharing discussions underway, the Union minister said he communicated his party's demands to the BJP, while reiterating his 'faith' in Mahayuti alliance partners.

Udhayanidhi Stalin made deputy CM in TN cabinet reshuffle with eye on assembly polls

The reshuffle also saw comeback of former state transport minister V Senthil Balaji two days after he was granted bail in a money laundering case.

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India’s most consequential decade & chronicling it as part of the dream team of journalism

You’d think the decade of 1985-95 is long over. Not really. The issues that erupted in that decade are still shaping Indian conversations.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.