scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicUP bypoll

Topic: UP bypoll

UP experiment may not defeat BJP in 2019, but complacency may do it

The results come as a warning for the BJP, but to its credit, the party is quick to learn from its mistakes, and has...

The UP results will now set off a competition over which regional leader should lead the opposition

The regrouping among regional parties has already begun and they are looking for an opportunity to shift gears.

Counting of votes in Yogi Adityanath’s first big test begins in Gorakhpur, Phulpur

The bypolls, termed by Adityanath a “rehearsal” for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, saw a contest between 10 candidates in Gorakhpur and 22 in...

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.