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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicState assembly elections

Topic: state assembly elections

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

ThePrint Team -
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

Gautam Chikermane -
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

Shivam Vij -
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

Neelam Pandey -
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

Azaan Javaid -
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.

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

Ratnadeep Choudhary -
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

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

Ruhi Tewari -
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

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

Yeddyurappa will remain CM, says BJP, scotching talk of ‘change of guard’

Rohini Swamy -
There has been speculation, even within BJP, that Yeddyurappa, 75, may have to make way for Union minister Hegde.
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Gemma Ware -
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Economy

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Thomas Seal -
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Defence

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Vaibhav Pant -
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

National Interest

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

Shekhar Gupta -
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.

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