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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: JDS-Congress

How ‘constitutional silences’ saved the day for 17 disqualified Karnataka MLAs

Supreme Court has upheld Congress & JD(S) MLAs’ disqualification, but said Speaker doesn’t have power to prevent them from contesting elections.

Disqualified Karnataka MLAs find a new tool to woo voters — new districts

In the last few months, demands to carve out 9 districts have been made by politicians & disqualified MLAs, saying it would result in better administration.

Deve Gowda predicts mid-term polls, then makes a U-turn. But message to Congress is clear

Deve Gowda first said he wasn’t sure how long Karnataka's JD(S)-Congress coalition would last, before ‘clarifying’ that by mid-term elections he meant local body polls.

With gathbandhan politics in turmoil, is the ‘vote transfer’ theory a myth?

Mayawati Tuesday hinted the BSP will contest assembly bypolls in UP alone, after blaming SP's Akhilesh Yadav for the alliance’s drubbing in 2019 elections.

Dinesh Gundu Rao: The accidental politician holding together Karnataka’s shaky alliance

Dinesh Gundu Rao, the Karnataka Congress chief, was once an engineer looking to go abroad before his father’s death brought him to public life.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.