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Friday, July 18, 2025
TopicWomen's representation

Topic: women's representation

‘Winnability’ over nari shakti? Only 13% of BJP’s candidates for upcoming state polls are women

Telangana, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh & MP headed for polls next month. BJP, which has brought women’s reservation law, has named 81 women among 613 candidates announced so far.

Reservation for ‘ordinary’ women & ‘Commonwealth country Khalistan’

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

For the sake of girls, ICSE needs to update syllabus. Women are not in Premchand era

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Justice Nagarathna says appointing women to senior judicial posts can break gender stereotypes

SC Justice B.V. Nagarathna, who will possibly be the first woman Chief Justice of India in 2027, said visibility of women as judicial officers can advance representation.

EC can’t dictate how to increase women’s representation in politics: Samajwadi Party

In 2010, the SP and RJD opposed the UPA govt’s move to turn the women’s reservation bill into law.

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Critical minerals are the new oil. India can’t afford to depend on China

Mineral security is no longer just an economic concern but a national security imperative, underpinning the country’s ambitions in clean energy, defence self-reliance, and advanced manufacturing.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.