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Friday, July 18, 2025
TopicAssembly polls

Topic: assembly polls

‘Why’s Adani not being brought to justice?’ Urdu press calls for impartial probe into US charges

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

In Vijay’s political debut, familiar Dravidian notes & a guessing game over his opponents

Actor Vijay addressed his party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's first rally Sunday. He will likely attract a chunk of youth votes in the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly elections, say analysts.

Congress releases third list of 19 candidates for J-K polls

The National Conference and the Congress have finalised the seat-sharing formula and will contest 51 and 32 seats, respectively. There will be a friendly contest on a few seats.

BJP appoints in-charges, co-in-charges for assembly polls in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand, J&K

The state election in-charges appointed include - Bhupendra Yadav for Maharashtra, Dharmendra Pradhan for Haryana, Shivraj Singh Chauhan for Jharkhand and G Kishan Reddy for J&K.

2023 results show Modi is the Messi of mass politics. But don’t rush to watch TV channels

And the winner is… ‘Modi Magic’. The losers are the exit polls and TV news—besides the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi, of course. In fact, I’m wondering...

RSS mouthpiece sees ‘foreign bid to weaken Modi, BJP in polls’ — Canada, Qatar, Rahul in Uzbekistan

Panchjanya editorial refers to allegations made by Justin Trudeau, 'threats against Hasina govt' in Bangladesh, 'pressure' on Nepal and Pakistan opening fire at border in Jammu.

Israel, Mahua Moitra, Kerala, world cup—TV news covered everything but upcoming state polls

The case of Hindi news channels is more intriguing. With elections in Hindi heartland states, you’d expect them to be all over the place. Not quite.

Why projecting PM Modi as BJP’s face in assembly polls is a risky gambit

The BJP is repeating its Karnataka mistakes in the upcoming assembly elections but there is a reason why the party thinks the results would be different.

Ahead of 2024 polls, RSS brass meets Shah, Sitharaman & other ministers over economic policies

BJP and RSS hold meeting to discuss strategies on how to take PM Narendra Modi's economic policies to voters. Sangh affiliates also give feedback on impact of welfare schemes.

EC sends notices to Sarma & Priyanka for ‘prima facie’ poll code violations, seeks reply by 30 Oct

In its notices, EC refers to Assam CM Sarma’s ‘communally charged’ remarks & Gandhi’s ‘false statements’ about PM Modi at election rallies. They have until 30 October to respond.

On Camera

Critical minerals are the new oil. India can’t afford to depend on China

Mineral security is no longer just an economic concern but a national security imperative, underpinning the country’s ambitions in clean energy, defence self-reliance, and advanced manufacturing.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.