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Topic: Elections

SIR phase 2 begins across 12 states, UTs; BLOs start distributing enumeration forms

Kolkata: The Second phase of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls has started in 12 States and Union Territories on Tuesday, with Booth...

What a Tamil town tells us about votes, caste, and fraud in medieval India

Nepotism seems to have been a concern in Uttaramerur elections. That's why the drawing of ballots was done by a child and executives' relatives were banned from being elected.

South Korean President’s election law violation trial postponed indefinitely, says court

Before Lee Jae-myung got elected, the South Korean Supreme Court ruled that Lee had violated the election law by publicly making false statements during his 2022 presidential bid.

Bangladesh elections in April 2026, Yunus announces in televised address

We are in a state of war, will not give opportunity to the defeated powers who are waiting to attack us, he says in TV address.

Eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki in the lead in Polish elections, Ipsos exit poll suggests

The 42-year-old's campaign called for economic and social policies that favour Poles over other nations, including refugees from neighbouring Ukraine.

BJP wins only 1 ST seat in Jharkhand despite campaign of polarisation, triumphs in Maharashtra tribal belt

JMM defector Champai Soren won the only ST seat for BJP in Jharkhand. Meanwhile, in Maharashtra, party looks set to win 10 ST seats, 2 more than in 2019 assembly polls.

Maharashtra polls on 20 November, Jharkhand on 13, 20 November; results on 23 November

EC also announces byelections to 48 assembly seats nationwide and 2 parliamentary constituencies, including Wayanad in Kerala, where Priyanka Gandhi will contest to succeed her brother.

Election Commission deploys observers to ensure smooth polls in J&K, Haryana

Over 400 observers to monitor electoral process, maintain integrity.

Opinion polls suggest African National Congress might lose its majority in National Assembly

ANC has always been in majority and elected the party's leader as president since 1994.

Corruption a blot on democracy. It’s fuelled by high price of elections—Sam Pitroda

In ‘The Idea of Democracy’, Sam Pitroda look at the paradox of so-called democratic success coupled with its liberal decline.

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.