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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicNo confidence vote

Topic: no confidence vote

French PM Michel Barnier loses no-confidence motion within 3 months of taking office

The Far-Right and Left backed the motion against Barnier, with over 331 votes in favour of the government's fall.

As Oppn attacks Modi over Manipur, Himanta’s barb — Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed ‘fled’ Tezpur amid 1962 war

A relative of Ahmed, a former President from the Congress and freedom fighter, says Assam CM’s remarks 'have hurt the sentiments of the family and every Assamese'.

Kashmir, ’84 riots, Emergency & ‘flying kiss’ — how Smriti Irani attacked Rahul in no-trust debate

In her opening lines, WCD minister takes swipe at Congress over Opposition bloc's name, 'INDIA'. You aren't India because India isn't corrupt, she says.

‘Reminding PM Modi of democracy’s meaning’ & Manipur ‘under the carpet’

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

‘Don’t believe in needless quarrels’ — after Delhi bill, BJD backs Modi govt on no-confidence motion

For a regional party, it's impossible to continuously bicker & fight with Centre & survive as model fiscal state, says Pinaki Misra. Asserts people will decide on PM's Manipur stand.

Imran Khan wanted to be a siyasi shaheed like Bhutto. But it ended up in political suicide

There is also lesson for the selectors to stop making political test tube babies when ultimately, the price is paid by the people.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan won’t resign, says ‘foreign country’ wants to defeat him

Imran Khan accused the Opposition of ‘selling out’; ‘the country should not forgive them,’ he said.

Decent batsmen walk away when judged out. On political pitch, Imran Khan hasn’t

Zia-ul-Haq may have had no cause to regret summoning Imran Khan to serve the nation, but his current successors at GHQ seem to be experiencing a kind of buyer’s remorse.

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.