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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicLok Sabha Elections

Topic: Lok Sabha Elections

BJP files complaint to ECI for ‘malicious, false, unverified & defamatory’ ads by Congress

In a letter to Election Commission of India, BJP says Congress published ads, just 2 days before polls, with the heading 'Chambu' to portray that Centre has cheated state of Karnataka.

Mamata says ‘BJP leader wants to kill’ her nephew and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee

Kolkata Police claims to have apprehended person associated with 2008 Mumbai attacks, who was conducting surveillance of the residence & office of Abhishek Banerjee.

Second phase of Indian elections to begin on April 26

The last date for submitting nominations in the second phase is April 4.

‘Feels good to be back home’ — G Janardhana Reddy merges his KRPP with BJP in Karnataka

The mining tycoon Monday said he would work to make Narendra Modi PM for a 3rd term. Reddy was state minister in previous Yediyurappa govt before he was jailed in an alleged mining scam.

Rises and falls in Lok Sabha polls of last 20 years. And a new law that matters for 2024

The last two decades of Lok Sabha elections saw UPA’s rise and fall, Left’s decimation, and BJP’s juggernaut. Now there’s a new law to choose election commissioners.

Coalition chaos, too many PMs but the 1990s were also about election reform

Thanks to TN Seshan’s insistence, voter ID cards as well as annual electoral roll revisions became essential elements of the election process.

SP & Congress announce poll tie-up in UP & MP, Congress gets 17 seats in UP

In MP, the SP will contest just one seat, supporting Congress candidates in the rest.

BJP’s women candidates have outperformed men in most Lok Sabha polls since 1998

Now, with the passing of women's reservation bill and resulting increase in their participation in electoral politics, BJP is likely to further scale up its outreach to women voters.

‘Paas, paas but not saath, saath’: At NDA meet, Modi calls Oppn’s I.N.D.I.A an alliance of ‘compulsion’

PM says opposition parties 'smiling together' in Karnataka but 'baying for each other’s blood' in various states, while NDA pursued 'positive politics' even when it sat in opposition.

‘Impossible for BJP to replicate 2019 Lok Sabha win’: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor

Tharoor added that it is "conceivable" that the ruling party can lose "50 seats" in the Lok Sabha in 2024.

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.