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TopicRajya Sabha polls

Topic: Rajya Sabha polls

Himachal RS polls headed for nail-biter? Congress on guard amid dissent, nominee’s outsider tag

MLAs Sudhir Sharma & Rajinder Rana have been expressing dissatisfaction with party leadership for quite some time. Abhishek Manu Singhvi is Congress candidate from hill state.

Bahubali, seven-time MLA, ex-minister — why BJP, SP made beeline for Raja bhaiya’s Kunda mansion

Kunda strongman will be key to ensuring victory of BJP's eighth candidate. Similarly, SP needs outside support for its third nominee. RS polls to take place Tuesday.

‘This is no family drama’ — after RLD set-back, ally Apna Dal (K) calls SP’s RS candidate list a ‘fraud’

Apna Dal (Kamerawadi)’s Pallavi Patel has objected to SP’s nominations of Jaya Bachchan & Alok Ranjan. For SP, this comes less than a week after former ally RLD joined NDA fold. 

Diamond merchant who donated ‘generously’ to Ram temple — who is BJP’s RS nominee Govindbhai Dholakia

Born into a family of farmers, Dholakia is a philanthropist businessman from Surat. He was announced as one of the BJP’s four nominees for Rajya Sabha polls scheduled for 27 February.

Why BJP decided not to renominate Sushil Modi for Rajya Sabha

Party insiders say the veteran leader is seen as someone who is submissive to Nitish Kumar. Central leadership has announced Bhim Singh & Dharamshila Gupta as nominees.

Sharad Pawar’s NCP faction gets new name, it’s now Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar

Election Commission allotted the new name a day after it recognised Ajit Pawar faction as the real NCP. New name is only for Rajya Sabha polls this month, the poll body says.

EC announces elections for 56 Rajya Sabha seats across 15 states, polls on 27 February

According to Election Commission of India note released Monday, term of office of 56 members of the Council of States elected from 15 states is due to expire on their retirement in April.

Last ‘resort’ for Tories abandoning Boris & no full-page ads to pronounce them Mann and wife

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

Congress expels Bishnoi from party posts, ensures his comrade Surjewala’s free pass to Rajya Sabha

Party functionaries claim Randeep Surjewala, a known Hooda detractor, didn't want to risk contesting from Haryana, and was hence given a safe seat to contest from in Rajasthan.

3 states, thrice the trouble: Why Congress struggles won’t end in Punjab, Haryana & Rajasthan

While Congress appears to be imploding in Punjab, intense factionalism has surfaced in the Haryana and Rajasthan units in the run-up to the 10 June Rajya Sabha polls.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.