Sushim Mukul

Pakistan appears to have restricted access to Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera days after it reported extensively on protests and election-related violence in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. Activists and critics say the outlet's reporting gave visibility to allegations of vote-rigging, heavy restrictions and mounting resentment against Asim Munir-led hybrid regime in Pakistan.

People from distant cities are using Swiggy and Zomato to send meals to students protesting in Ranchi over alleged irregularities in the JPSC and JSSC exams.

The BJP won the Bankipur seat in the Assembly election in November 2025 by a margin of 52,000 votes. On Monday, Prashant Kishor of Jan Suraaj snatched the seat in a bypoll from the BJP by a margin of 19,000 votes. Here are the five big factors that swung fortunes completely in a span of eight months.

Just eight months after the BJP won Bankipur by nearly 52,000 votes, poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor flipped one of the saffron party's safest seats with a margin of over 19,000 votes.

The biggest members of Pakistan's ruling coalition, Nawaz Sharif's PML(N) and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's PPP, are locked in a battle over "mandate" in the sham polls of POK.

From Nagpur to Lucknow to Jaipur and Visakhapatnam, anti-reservation protests are being reported from several cities even as a parallel campaign against caste-based quotas is gathering pace online. With several Assembly elections approaching, the growing chorus against reservation could reopen India's most politically sensitive fault lines.

Within weeks of the Gen Z-led agitation forcing Dharmendra Pradhan to quit, the Narendra Modi government is reaching out to the Opposition for support on the FCRA and delimitation bills. Is this an attempt by the BJP to correct the perceived unrelenting image, or is it a bid to get the key bills passed?

The RSS chief said reservation would continue and appealed to beneficiaries to give it up. The remarks placed quota policy and voluntary withdrawal at the centre of the discussion.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has expanded his PDA formula to include "Pandit", in a bid to broaden its voter base beyond Muslims and Yadavs. The SP's bid to woo Brahmins could alter electoral equations in UP even as "upper castes" protest against the caste-based reservation system.

Pakistan's most powerful man is tightening his grip over every major lever of the Islamic Republic. Field Marshal Asim Munir's closest aide and Pakistan's Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, has declared that the country's governance system has collapsed. Is Pakistan's hybrid regime making way for direct military rule?