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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
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Did Ashok Lavasa case change it all for EC? Why India needs a TN Seshan: Ex-IAS officer

The election commissioners should have controlled the madness in West Bengal, but their partisan attitude has only strengthened the negative impression about civil services.

ECI orders repolling in four polling booths in Assam on 20 April

The ECI order said that repolling will be held at Ratabari contituency's polling station after an EVM was found in a car belonging to the wife of a BJP candidate.

A ‘partly free’ India and Haryana’s 75% quota law amid rising unemployment

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

SC stays HC order asking political parties to conduct virtual campaign for MP bypolls

The Election Commission filed a plea, saying it oversees the conduct and management of polls and the Constitution expressly forbids judicial interference in the process.

EC announces bypolls to 64 assembly seats & 1 Lok Sabha constituency

Spread across 18 states, the bypolls will be held on 21 October and the votes will be counted on 24 October.

Unless Lok Sabha elections get shorter, parties like BJP will keep winning

Election Commission must aim to complete Lok Sabha election in one day to deny undue advantages to some parties.

With 5 clean chits to Modi, EC made it clear: BJP Varanasi nominee is free to say anything

Election Commission has given credence to claims that Modi can push the boundaries of decency in electoral debates with impunity.

This is not an easy time to be the Election Commission of India. Here’s why

EC banned Modi biopic, took his government on over electoral bonds, but it’ll be slammed for ‘letting’ BJP blatantly use armed forces in polls.

Congress cries foul as EC postpones poll dates announcement before Modi’s Ajmer rally

Expected to announce assembly elections dates for states including Rajasthan, EC pushes conference to 3 pm.

Karnataka state polls turned out to be a ‘money guzzler’ exercise: Survey

Expenditure of several political parties and candidates in the Karnataka polls were more than twice spent during the last assembly poll in 2013. 

On Camera

India will absorb Trump tariff impact due to its Achilles’ heel

Like China, India remains a big domestic market, which will continue to attract investment, but the US tariffs will make India unattractive for future investments.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

‘Peace without power Utopian, lessons from Op Sindoor being implemented’—CDS inaugurates Ran Samvad

India’s 1st tri-service seminar, on the lines of Shangri-La Dialogue, kicks off in Mhow, with top military officers & defence attaches from several countries in attendance.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.