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Monday, July 21, 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

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

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.