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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicGeneral election

Topic: General election

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase-1: Tamil Nadu sees voter turnout of 62.19% & Uttarakhand 53.64%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase-1: Voting was held for 102 parliamentary seats across 21 states/UTs in the first phase of the general election.

Curtailment of assemblies’ tenure, common electoral roll — Kovind panel’s plan for simultaneous polls

Panel has recommended two-step mechanism with simultaneous general & state elections followed by civic and rural polls within 100 days.

Increase in voter turnout in India does not signal rise in anti-incumbent sentiment

The Indian press and public have largely sustained the notion that an increase in voter turnout signals anti-incumbent sentiment- especially in the run up to the May 2014 general election- but empirical investigations tell a different story.

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.