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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicVidhan Sabha

Topic: Vidhan Sabha

Zootopia & a misinformation miscommunication

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

Munni Rajak — How Bihar washerwoman became Lalu pick for Vidhan Parishad

While welcoming Munni Rajak, BJP takes swipe at RJD saying Lalu's party had sidelined a better-known face from the washerman community, Shyam Rajak.

Why AAP finished third in Delhi and what that means for 2020 assembly polls

The fall in AAP’s vote-share will make it tougher for Arvind Kejriwal’s party to hold on to its base in next year’s Delhi assembly elections.

Gorakhpur bypoll: Make no mistake, this is Yogi Adityanath’s defeat

The Gorakhnath temple has been at the centre of local politics and only the candidates believed to “have its blessings” have ever won elections from there.

The controversial past of the man behind the media block in Gorakhpur

Rautela is known to be a close associate of Uttar Pradesh CM and former five-term Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath, who hand-picked him to head the administrative set-up of his home district.

Bypoll trends: 2019 ‘rehearsal’ going awfully wrong for Yogi’s BJP in Gorakhpur, Phulpur

The trends led to uproarious scenes in the UP assembly as SP members celebrated, leading speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit to adjourn the house briefly.

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.