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Monday, August 18, 2025
TopicLok Sabha Elections

Topic: Lok Sabha Elections

Bullet-proofing experts, slogan writers are making big money in this election

Lok Sabha elections 2019 is the costliest poll on earth at an estimated $7 billion expenditure & has created opportunities for a range of businesses.

No, the photographs of RSS workers engaging in relief work are not from Cyclone Fani

Viral post of RSS workers’ relief work in Odisha with over 3.8K shares is from cyclones in the South in 2018 and 2017.

A ‘flexible’ EC, and the yeti’s link to press freedom

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

Bengal stands up to ask for more

And the CPM can't understand why - while Mamata says she is ready to deliver.

Masood Azhar’s ‘promotion’ toast, and a curious EC mystery solved

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

The unasked questions of the Gadchiroli attack amid a PM’s nationalistic narrative

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

Narendra Modi peeps into TMC’s ‘stable’ as India awaits voters’ majestic ‘footprint’

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

Arun Jaitley is wrong, Modi has used his caste 4 times in last 15 days to attack opposition

PM Modi hit out at SP-BSP and Congress for talking about his caste, but from 2014 to the current election campaign, he has often used it in his speeches.

A ‘sepoy mutiny’ in Varanasi and Mumbai’s ‘flop’ poll show

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

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?