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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicPolitical campaigns

Topic: political campaigns

Maryam Nawaz brings new law to control publicity campaigns. Pakistanis call it ‘peak fascism’

The Punjab Public Awareness and Dissemination of Information Bill, 2025 seeks to create a legal framework for ‘awareness’ around government initiatives, ostensibly to promote transparency and public engagement.

SubscriberWrites: An Ideological Proposition to the Congress

Although inconvenient, Congress' Muslim focus strategy worked for the party because it helped them win the Lok Sabha elections and keep the control of the party within the family.

Think tanks acting as war rooms. This is what Indian political parties are building for 2024

Nation With NaMo, Varahe Analytics, Inclusive Minds and several others work round the clock collecting data for political parties – BJP to Congress, AAP, BJD, NCP, SP, DMK, and TMC.

Covid norms go for a toss at huge rallies of TRS, BJP, Congress in Telangana for civic polls

Huge roadshows were conducted earlier this week across several districts in Telangana despite state witnessing 1400% jump in Covid cases in the past month.

FB won’t offer ‘direct help’ to poll campaigns, and Titanic relics to save bankrupt company

How UNICEF's storytelling tents are helping Somalia send children to school, and a discussion on the Nobel Prize in literature. 

On Camera

The K in K-Pop is already silent. And that’s OK

Audience data shows there are now more fans outside South Korea than at home. Like hip hop, there’s no reason why K-Pop can’t have a similarly inclusive trajectory while staying true to its core.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.