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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicWomen reservation bill

Topic: women reservation bill

Just 25 candidates out of 194 — why Kerala still lags in women’s representation in Lok Sabha polls

Experts cite patriarchal mindset & parties' view that men have more time to devote to campaigning as reasons for low representation.

SubscriberWrites: Women Reservation Bill in India

It was a long and arduous fight for women as it is 27 years since first conceptualized and introduced in the highest congregation of our country.

A conundrum called ‘women’s reservation Bill’ & Rahul-Owaisi’s ‘arm-wrestle match’

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

1 woman in parliamentary board, 14 of 90 in national executive, no women CMs — BJP still a male bastion

While BJP has patted itself on the back over women’s reservation bill, data shows its posts of power are mostly held by men. Leaders, however, insist ‘BJP has always stood for women’.

‘India has shown it won’t bow down’ — Urdu press hails country’s stand in diplomatic row with Canada

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

‘100% regret’: Rahul Gandhi on not including OBC quota in UPA govt’s 2010 women’s bill

The Congress MP also said the women’s reservation bill — in its present form — was an attempt by the current dispensation to divert attention from the demand for a caste census.

‘Because of full-majority, stable govt,’ says Modi after women’s bill clears Parliament

At a felicitation programme by the BJP women’s wing, he said stable governments could also take big decisions, cross big milestones.

‘How many women are there in RSS?’ Venugopal hits out at BJP, Yogi Adityanath in Rajya Sabha debate

K.C. Venugopal calls women's reservation bill Congress's 'child', reiterating what many senior party leaders have said. TMC MP Mausam Noor says, 'It is our bill.'

The ‘long road to women empowerment’ & crumbling political alliances

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

Modi govt must give strict timeframe on Census, women’s reservation bill

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

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.