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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicNorth East Elections

Topic: North East Elections

With each election win, BJP is bridging the gap between Northeast and rest of India

BJP and its allies' victories in Tripura and Nagaland show how Northeast people’s political aspirations have risen beyond the narrow ideological politics of divisiveness.

Hard work beats Harvard but what about Cambridge? And too much jazba can make you lose Kasba

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

After Tripura loss, CPI(M)’s next challenge is to fix internal problems

The Left party will have to resolve its dilemma over whether it will have an alliance with the Congress, in a crucial meeting due...

TalkPoint: Does Rahul Gandhi get the timing of his foreign visits mostly wrong?

Before the North East election results Rahul Gandhi took off for Italy and is now headed to Singapore and Malaysia. Experts weigh in on Rahul Gandhi's ill-timed travel.

Not much left of the Left after Tripura

Defeat in Tripura is payback for refusal to adapt to changing times, low introspection, petty internal rifts & inability to retain old base or capture new.

Tripura is the Waterloo of the Left movement in the country

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on the North East is a springboard for his Look East-Act East outreach.

Tripura is a historic win but the rest of 2018 will be an uphill climb for BJP

In Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh, BJP will face what it did in Gujarat — the onus of defending instead of challenging.

BJP’s victory in Tripura will force Left to rethink its alliance with Congress for 2019

National attention was focused on Tripura because the Left was engaged in a direct fight with the Right.

The Congress has been punished resoundingly for its lack of seriousness in the Northeast

It had just one term in the last 30 years, but the dominant oppn space had always been Congress’. This election has changed that.

BJP woos regional parties in Nagaland to continue its conquest in northeast

Talks are reportedly on with BJP and other regional parties as no party or alliance has secured clear majority.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

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.