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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicState assembly elections

Topic: state assembly elections

Tripura goes to polls on 16 February, Meghalaya & Nagaland to vote on 27 February

The results for the three states will be declared on 2 March, the Election Commission of India announced Wednesday

Seven debates India is looking forward to in 2022

From elections to a new President, Covid to principles-based debates, the year ahead will be tentative, even frustrating.

India’s student protests have broken image of national consensus on Modi’s policies

The idea that the anti-CAA protests will politically help the BJP fails to take into account how Narendra Modi and Amit Shah like to rule India.

Amit Shah to continue as BJP chief at least until assembly elections this year

BJP feels that with assembly elections due in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana, the current setup should not be changed.

NC & PDP still in Eid daze but BJP’s J&K poll pitch off to a start with delimitation

No major meeting has been held by NC or PDP after the Lok Sabha election, with no get-together held for the upcoming assembly polls either.

BJP announces 3 more candidates for Lok Sabha seats in Odisha

The BJP has so far announced candidates for all the Lok Sabha seats which will go to polls in the first four phases of the seven-phased elections.

Tight race in MP & a BJP win in Chhattisgarh: Election results a mixed bag for exit polls

Most exit polls had called Telangana right and predicted the tight race for Madhya Pradesh, but there were several misses too.

Congress smashes BJP fortress, and the Kingfisher set to fly into Indian jail

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

State elections are not the semi-finals to 2019 battle for Congress or BJP

The 2019 elections will be starkly different from state assembly polls and a Modi versus Rahul battle.

In N-E the RSS meets its enemies: Bangladeshi Muslims, Christian missionaries & separatists

How should we comprehend the results of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya? Merely a routine exercise of electoral upheaval, or something more fundamental?

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.