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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicRajya Sabha polls

Topic: Rajya Sabha polls

Training camp on voting? BJP shifts Rajasthan MLAs to resort days before Rajya Sabha polls

Move comes days after Congress sent its legislators to an Udaipur resort in an apparent bid to avoid poaching. Five candidates in fray against four Rajya Sabha vacancies in state.

BJP unlikely to get Rajya Sabha majority, any setback in 2022 polls will even hit current tally

BJP currently has 93 MPs in the Rajya Sabha, which has a total strength of 245. The halfway mark for a majority is 123.

BJP set to win 10 Rajya Sabha seats amid drama in Gujarat and Manipur

Of the 24 Rajya Sabha seats up for grabs Friday, Congress is set to win 5 and BJP 10 if the Election Commission rejects the former’s objections in Gujarat.

Cross-voting, turncoat MLAs allowed to vote: How BJP won lone Rajya Sabha seat in Manipur

The victory is a shot in the arm for the BJP govt in the state that was thrown into a crisis after nine ruling coalition members, including four ministers, resigned Wednesday.

Manipur Congress moves to remove assembly Speaker, says he’s behaving like BJP MLA

The notice comes after Speaker Y. Khemchand advanced proceedings on disqualification of 7 Congress MLAs, who crossed over to the BJP, to 18 June from 22 June.

‘Season’s sale’ in Rajasthan and the Chinese balloon air pump for Nepal

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

Resort politics in the desert state now, Rajasthan Congress shifts its MLAs to Jaipur hotel

Rajasthan Congress is fearing attempts by BJP to 'poach' MLAs ahead of 19 June Rajya Sabha polls. In Gujarat too, party has shifted MLAs to different resorts.

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Nehru is suddenly back in the news. This time, the BJP could not criticise him

The BJP often names him as the architect of India’s many shortcomings and failures, which are amplified on TV news. However, this week, Nehru’s words echoed across television after two very different victories.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘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.