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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicDenied ticket

Topic: denied ticket

BJP dropped 43% of MPs for 2024 polls. Here’s how strategy fared for its strike rate in 2014, 2019

Data from 2019 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections shows that in 9 out of 10 constituencies where incumbents were dropped, BJP still won. It also did well in seats where incumbents were fielded.

‘Won’t beg:’ Denied ticket, Karnataka’s former BJP deputy CM Laxman Savadi quits party

The BJP released its first list of 189 candidates for the May assembly polls on Tuesday night.

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.