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SubscriberWrites: Bihar Elections, 2025 & Understanding NDA’s Landslide Win

Many believe that the last-minute transfer of Rs 10,000 into the accounts of women by the NDA government was a major factor.

Jungle, jungle pata chala hai & two sides of the same Trump

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

Why Lalu-Tejashwi have bet on don Shahabuddin’s ‘London-educated’ son in Siwan, risking jungle raj barbs

In campaign, BJP bigwigs Amit Shah & Yogi Adityanath had raised spectre of RJD lawlessness. Shahabuddin’s son Osama will be hoping to bring luck to the family in its third attempt.

NDA won in Bihar by reminding people of ‘Jungle Raj’. But data shows it’s a myth

No matter what Nitish Kumar or BJP says, analysis of crime data of Bihar reveals the truth about Lalu Prasad-era ‘Jungle Raj’.

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.