Simply put: Polls 2019

Simply Put: Election issues

Jharkhand Panchayat Elections

Lok Sabha 2024: Too hot to vote during Phase 2?

DTE looks at if heat is playing any role in voter turnout this election or ECI’s heat-related concerns are unfounded

Voting without voters: Bihar migrant workers forced to sacrifice ballot rights due to financial strain

Require special provisions, free trips home to participate in democratic process

Women voters are louder than ever and that’s because of poll panel, quota: Experts

In these Lok Sabha elections, women voters outnumbered men in 13 states

Election Commission, NGT, environment ministry say no to plastics in 2019 poll campaigning

Efforts are on for the first time to reduce the use of non-degradable materials during the upcoming general elections

Aam Aadmi Party can deliver if

It should focus on alternative politics and not on becoming a political alternative. It should strive for solutions outside the vexed …

Lok Sabha 2024: Did heat dissuade voters during phase 3?

Almost half of the districts analysed saw a rise in temperature as well as a lower voter turnout on polling day on May 7, 2024

Voting without voters: West Bengal may see migrants flocking home to vote & document citizenship status amid CAA worries

Migrants likely to influence fate of elections in state; CAA cloud advantage to Trinamool but BJP to leverage governance failure that led to …

Voting without voters: In Uttar Pradesh, areas with low turnout are hubs of migrant workers

EC plans to reach out to migrant workers via postcards to encourage them to vote, but it may be too little, too late

Land injustice, Aadhaar problems dog Jharkhand. Is the Opposition listening

Activists under Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha highlight issues that should make a buzz before the Lok Sabha elections

On the cards in Kerala: A clean, green Lok Sabha polls

Kerala Suchitwa Mission Executive Director R Ajay Kr Verma says mass involvement most crucial

Politics is a party

Simply put: How are politicians and people feeling these elections?

Simply put: Manifesto, a mirror image

Village protesting Kundankulam bans poll campaigning by any party

S P Udayakumar, coordinator of Peoples’ Movement Against Nuclear Energy, has been spearheading protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear …

Voting without voters: Few migrant workers cast ballot for Lok Sabha and assembly polls in western Odisha

Constituencies with high migration levels witness poor voter turnout

Voting without voters: Migrant workers in Odisha’s Nuapada unable to afford trip home to cast ballot

About 75,000 workers in district are migrant labourers and 63,000 of them eligible voters

If Trump refuses to accept defeat in November, the US will survive intact, as it has 5 out of 6 times in the past

 Also, the powerful historical, social and geographic forces that produced the total failure of 1860, leading to the Civil War, are simply …

Decision 2022: Goa’s BJP faces a challenge to solve decade-old mining imbroglio 

Opening up mining in Goa is not going to be easy; there are wheels within wheels, in an issue that is mostly misunderstood

Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis: What lies ahead can include a constitutional crisis over succession

Neither the Succession Act nor the 25th Amendment have ever been invoked for longer than a few hours  

Adivasis in Jhargram fight a divided battle for the same aim in LS polls

In these General Elections, tribals in West Bengal are sparring among themselves over politicising their struggle for tribal rights

Development news, polarisation and social media in times of Lok Sabha polls

Polarisation of development news in social media makes its impact partisan and non-effective

Simply Put: Karnataka Polls 2023