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Saturday, October 25, 2025
TopicUS Electoral College

Topic: US Electoral College

Taking cue from India & Brazil, Trump to overhaul US electoral system with new citizenship checks

Trump’s latest executive order follows his long-standing grievances with the American electoral system. He has, in the past, blamed his electoral defeats on voter fraud.

From Tablighi Jamaat to Bilkis Bano—Majoritarianism growing in India, leftists not all wrong

To call leftists all wrong might be simple, even an utterly lucid argument. But coming from a doyen of the Hindu right in India, it is astonishing in its lack of nuance.

Trump nears ‘checkmate’ stage in last-gasp bid to reverse Biden’s win

Donald Trump continues to hurl unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud on Twitter, but he is now left with only a few extremely improbable options to derail Biden’s inauguration.

Trump says will give up power if electoral college affirms Joe Biden’s victory

The Electoral College is due to vote 14 December. Certificates recording the electoral vote results in each state must be received by the Senate president no later than 23 December.

Greatness of US’ maze-like electoral system can’t match Indian voting. Just look at the delay

For Indians stoically used to multiple phases of polling — three in just the ongoing Bihar assembly election – the spectre of delay in the world’s oldest democracy seems baffling.

On Camera

The Press is not artillery — neither for the ruling party nor the Opposition: Sachin Sen

The Press in a liberal democracy has to be a forum for the expression of different points of view. It must not suppress, taint or adulterate news, wrote Sachin Sen in 1960.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.