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Jolt to INDIA bloc as Mamata says no tie-up with Congress in Bengal for Lok Sabha polls

Bengal CM says she'll take call on her party’s stand at national level after polls, day after Rahul claimed seat-sharing talks on track with TMC. Congress says this will only benefit BJP.

Delhi undergoes monumental makeover for G20 Summit, receives $120 million facelift

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

BJP faces bypoll upset in UP’s Ghosi, Bengal’s Dhupguri, gets its first ever Muslim MLA in Tripura

BJP held 3 of the 7 seats where bypolls were held on 5 September, lost Ghosi despite fielding former SP leader Dara Singh Chauhan, who had won by margin of over 22,000 votes in 2022.

‘We are ready:’ INDIA bloc leaders reach Mumbai for 3rd alliance meeting, logo expected

INDIA’s first meeting was held in Patna in June, and the second took place in Bengaluru mid-July.

Relaunching Rahul Gandhi failed miserably. Modi, Shah tore opposition apart easily

No-confidence motion gave a new opportunity to the BJP to attack the opposition and blow the 2024 Lok Sabha election bugle.

‘Squeezing tax’ & ‘Quiet India Movement’

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

‘East I.N.D.I.A Company’ & back and forth ‘jibes’

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

Opposition parties discussed no-trust vote against Centre over Manipur, say ANI sources

Decision taken by all floor leaders in a meeting held in the chamber of Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.

‘Must strive to free from colonial legacies’ — Assam CM replaces ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ on Twitter bio

This move came after Congress-led UPA rebranded its identity as 'INDIA' — an acronym for ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance’ — during a meeting of 26 opposition parties.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.