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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBy-polls

Topic: by-polls

Himachal CM Sukhu’s wife to contest Dehra bypoll, BJP cries ‘nepotism’, calls it ‘insult to local women’

The bypolls were necessitated after 9 MLAs rebelled against Congress in March. Of these, the party has since won in 4 & the BJP in 2. Polls in the remaining 3 will be held on 10 July.

Rajasthan BJP minister, who took oath before winning polls, loses to Congress candidate

Ruling BJP had inducted Surenderpal Singh into its cabinet on 30 December & allotted him important portfolios. He lost to Congress’s Rupinder Singh Kooner in Karanpur constituency Monday.

Tie in Bihar, ‘tough fight’ in Telangana, wins in Odisha, Haryana — what BJP’s by-poll tally mean

BJP won 4 of 6 seats it contested in Bihar, Telangana, UP, Odisha & Harayana. It previously held 3 of these. In the first elections in Bihar since BJP-JD(U) ties ended, the party won 1 & lost 1.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.