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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicBallot box

Topic: ballot box

Sealed ballot boxes found in counting centre in Bengal after panchayat elections results

TMC emerged victorious in over 6,450 panchayat samiti seats, while the BJP won nearly 1,000 seats, the CPI(M) and the Congress won over 180 and 260 seats, respectively.

One way to de-polarise Indian politics—add MOTA to the ballot

In India's ‘first-past-the-post’ system, there's a perverse incentive for political parties and candidates to overtly antagonise one section of voters to secure another section’s votes.

As EVMs are debated, this is how the ballot box was made for India’s first 1952 election

It took over 50 specimens and prototypes to reach that one technically acceptable and economically viable version of a ballot box. 

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India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

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.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.