Anything but the saffron waves grip eastern India in recent years and it was truly confirmed by the swiping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and pure consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party established the consecutive third term electoral victory. When some commentators made optimistic views during the…
As the saffron waves grip eastern India, political observers start dissecting the massive electoral victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party marks a consecutive third term win. The ruling alliance retained power in Assam with over a hundred winning seats in the…
The swiping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in Assam legislative assembly elections 2026 brought the limelight on Zubeen Garg once again, but in a different perspective. One can observe that all the candidates and parties, which brought the issue of Zubeen’s unusual death in Singapore and subsequent investigative processes to electoral politics, lost the…
Counting of votes begins in all 126 legislative assembly constituencies of Assam, where elections were held simultaneously in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Keralam, Puducherry union territory, along with bye-elections in some other States in the last few weeks. As the clock touches 8 in the morning (4 May 2026), the process kicks off in 40…
Anything but the saffron waves grip eastern India in recent years and it was truly confirmed by the swiping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and pure consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party established the consecutive third term electoral victory. When some commentators made optimistic views during the…
As the saffron waves grip eastern India, political observers start dissecting the massive electoral victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and consolidation of political power in Assam, where the nationalist party marks a consecutive third term win. The ruling alliance retained power in Assam with over a hundred winning seats in the…
The swiping victory of Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in Assam legislative assembly elections 2026 brought the limelight on Zubeen Garg once again, but in a different perspective. One can observe that all the candidates and parties, which brought the issue of Zubeen’s unusual death in Singapore and subsequent investigative processes to electoral politics, lost the…
Counting of votes begins in all 126 legislative assembly constituencies of Assam, where elections were held simultaneously in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Keralam, Puducherry union territory, along with bye-elections in some other States in the last few weeks. As the clock touches 8 in the morning (4 May 2026), the process kicks off in 40…
Assam chief electoral officer Anurag Goel stated that preparations for counting of votes on 4 May for the assembly election, held on 9 April 2026, have been completed. The counting will start at 8 am simultaneously in 40 designated centres across 35 counting districts. The ECI deputed 126 counting observers (IAS officers from rest of…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the murder of Indian scribe V Jaganmohan Reddy, who was hacked to death on Tuesday as the Telugu scribe went for a morning walk at Venkatagiri Kotain area under Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. Local media reported that Jaganmohan (40)…
After months of uncertainties, the Press Council of India (PCI) got its chairman as Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai assumed the charge on 24 April 2026. The retired judge of the Supreme Court of India, who was nominated for a second term for a period of three years, served as the PCI chairman from 17 June…
Guwahati: In pursuit of understand the essence of ancient Bharat, one must look towards the Northeast, where traditions continue to thrive in their most organic and spiritual forms, said Dr Sunil Mohanty, Assam Kshetra Prachar Pramukh of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, while delivering a comprehensive and deeply reflective address during a religious gathering in Meghalaya placing…
As Assam completed the single-phase largely peaceful polling on 9 April to elect 126 representatives for State legislative assembly, the focus now shifts to probable outcome as both the ruling and opposition parties are claiming the result in their favours. The all time high voters’ turnout (85.96 percent) in the State paved the way for…
After Assam, Keralam and Puducherry (union territory), the State legislative assembly elections are knocking at the doors of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal in the second half of April 2026. Meanwhile, the millions of voters have shown an extraordinary commitment to electoral politics as they participated in the largely peaceful single-phase assembly polls on 9…
