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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicLok Sabha polls

Topic: Lok Sabha polls

How BJP, VHP & RSS are mobilising people across India for Ram Lalla’s pran pratishtha in Ayodhya

This includes arranging trains, buses for devotees to travel to Ayodhya in January for Ram Mandir inauguration, building a tent city & organising Hanuman Chalisa recitals across country.

62.56% voter turnout recorded in 5th phase of Lok Sabha elections across 7 states

The polling was peaceful in most states except clashes between BJP & TMC workers in Bengal and two grenade attacks in J-K's Anantnag.

PM Modi greets ‘alien mitron’, and Rahul’s cry for ‘garibi hatao’

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

Advani bows out as a government ‘diverts attention from its failures’

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

Criminals turn chowkidars, and a ‘Gandhi wave’ in a sinking Congress boat

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

A high-profile Congress defection as Nehru makes a comeback

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

Priyanka Gandhi unlikely to make big impact in Lok Sabha polls, says Prashant Kishor

Janata Dal (United) national vice president Kishor though rated Priyanka as a big name and a popular face, and would therefore pose a challenge to NDA in future.

On Camera

Bhajan raves, caste jokes, Kundli-matching—young India is scrolling back to conservatism

These were the battles we thought we’d already fought. The slow recognition that caste is a plague upon Indian society. The hard-won right to choose your own partner.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.