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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicElectoral College

Topic: Electoral College

NDA names Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan as its Vice Presidential candidate

Radhakrishnan, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Coimbatore twice & previously served as the Tamil Nadu BJP State President. He has also served as the Governor of Jharkhand & Telangana.

ECI finalises members of Electoral College for election of Vice President after Dhankhar’s resignation

The Vice President of India is elected by an Electoral College comprising the elected members & nominated members of Rajya Sabha & the elected members of the Lok Sabha.

‘Time to turn the page’, says Joe Biden after electoral college win

Joe Biden said he would be the president for all Americans, even those who don’t agree with him, & urged people to focus instead on combating the pandemic and its economic fallout.

Biden wins electoral college to cement victory and rebuff Trump

Some Senate Republicans who had refused to recognise Biden’s victory quickly started acknowledging that Trump lost and Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president on 20 January.

EC should allow Biharis in Bengaluru to vote for state polls. US showed every vote matters

While ‘US should let our EC conduct its elections’ makes for feel-good conversation, democracies can no more be substituted across countries than engines across car models.

On Camera

Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.