Simply Put: Election issues

Jharkhand Panchayat Elections

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 …

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: 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

Madagascar’s 2023 presidential election is crucial for the island’s future, but it’s off to a rocky start

A critical question is whether this election will be considered “free and fair” and the results accepted by all

Latest parliamentary win by Putin’s United Russia has been years in the manufacturing

The election coincides with a period of economic stagnation, high household inflation, the ongoing coronavirus crisis and environmental disasters

How accurate are exit polls? There's no easy answer

In the world's largest democracy, the science of poll forecasting is still struggling with the basics

Political parties try to bank on women’s electoral strength

Political parties try to woo women voters by making a range of promises