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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicKerala bypolls

Topic: Kerala bypolls

A tender moment amid high-stakes Kerala bypoll & new episode of Chautala clan feud just dropped

Pre-Truth — snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

Big relief for ruling LDF as CPI(M) retains bastion Chelakkara, UR Pradeep wins by over 12k votes

Bypoll in Chelakkara, a reserved constituency in Kerala's Thrissur, was necessitated after K. Radhakrishnan vacated the seat after winning from Alathur in Lok Sabha elections.

Angry cop of Malayalam cinema to BJP’s 1st Lok Sabha MP from Kerala — who is Suresh Gopi

Suresh Gopi, a leading Mollywood actor, philanthropist and former Rajya Sabha MP, won the Thrissur Lok Sabha seat by over 70,000 votes.

CPM’s Sabarimala ‘apology’ works, party wins Kerala’s Konni after 23 years

Konni is in Pathanamthitta district where Sabarimala shrine is located. CPM also manages to wrest Vattiyoorkavu. Congress wins 2 seats, IUML 1. BJP draws a blank.

In Kerala bypoll, BJP takes a beating as ally deserts it

Party, after hyping up its chances, finished third in Chengannur; vote share drops nearly 7 points since 2016 assembly elections.

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.