Will Tamil Nadu and West Bengal stop cultural and Hindutva in its aggressive expansionist tracks? With Periyar and Tagore being invoked, how does the BJP counter these tall leaders who have shaped the politics in these states for decades? Can Modi take on these giants?
With delimitation becoming an election campaign topic, it needs to also be considered that it will increase the burden on the taxpayer.
The first phase of voting in West Bengal’s Assembly elections is underway across 152 constituencies spread over 16 districts, including four in Jhargram. Polling began at 7 a.m. on Thursday amid tight security arrangements, with 2,407 companies of central forces deployed alongside personnel from the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police. From urban centres to remote, tribal-dominated regions like Jangalmahal, once a Maoist hotspot, voters lined up early to cast their ballots, reflecting both the scale and significance of this phase. The remaining 142 constituencies will go to polls in the second phase on April 29, with counting of votes scheduled for May 4.
Assembly Elections 2026 Voting LIVE: As elections for the two states of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu commenced, voters including political leaders cast their vote. However, technical glitches at booths have caused delays.
What started as a quick campaign break for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jhargram quickly turned into a meme fest. Nevertheless, for a Bengali, jhalmuri is more than a snack. A lot more.
As 152 seats go to polls in the opening phase, north Bengal emerges as the decisive arena where anti-incumbency, welfare politics and the SIR controversy converge to shape the electoral narrative.
The Women’s Reservation Bill need not be linked to delimitation. It can’t be conditional. It should have been implemented in 2023 and must be implemented now without linking it with delimitation.
Hard as it is to imagine, there was a time when the Dravidian parties were not in power in Tamil Nadu
The BJP’s all-out war against the TMC’s rule in Bengal has turned it into the most intense assembly election of 2026, albeit with greater democratic concerns.
Murshidabad accounts for one-sixth of deletions in West Bengal; in Samserganj alone, 30% voters dropped, while thousands in Malda move tribunals for reinstatement
Actor-turned-politician Vijay’s TVK is trying to mobilise the anti-Dravidian vote and cut into traditional banks
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In conversation, David Szalay reflects on how his novel Flesh explores the collision of sexuality, class power, and the rise and fall of an outsider in contemporary Europe.
What started as a quick campaign break for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jhargram quickly turned into a meme fest. Nevertheless, for a Bengali, jhalmuri is more than a snack. A lot more.
Ambassador Jiang paid a courtesy call on PM Shehbaz. Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal and Minister for Information Ataullah Tarar were also present at the meeting.
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TN Assembly Elections 2026: Prominent personalities from Kollywood, including Suriya, Mani Ratnam, Chiyaan Vikram and others cast their votes as Tamil Nadu's high-stakes Assembly election got underway across the state.
Stars of Tamil cinema, including Sivakarthikeyan, Trisha, Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swamy and others, were seen casting their votes for the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026.
TN assembly elections 2026: Rajinikanth, Thalapathy Vijay, Kamal Haasan, Ajith, and Dhanush were among the early voters.
TN Assembly Elections 2026: Prominent personalities from Kollywood, including Suriya, Mani Ratnam, Chiyaan Vikram and others cast their votes as Tamil Nadu's high-stakes Assembly election got underway across the state.
Stars of Tamil cinema, including Sivakarthikeyan, Trisha, Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swamy and others, were seen casting their votes for the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026.
TN assembly elections 2026: Rajinikanth, Thalapathy Vijay, Kamal Haasan, Ajith, and Dhanush were among the early voters.
From Priyanka Chopra Jonas's debut to Shah Rukh Khan's long-awaited appearance, Bollywood stars have steadily claimed space at the Met Gala. Here's a sharp, year-wise look at the names, designers and defining fashion moments.
Cannes 2026 brings a proud moment for Indian cinema as FTII student film Shadows of the Moonless Nights enters the La Cinef section. Directed by Mehar Malhotra, the Punjabi short stands out among global student films competing this year.
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FTII Pune alumnus Pushpendra Singh discusses his films rooted in the Janapadiya tradition—a post-colonial movement that emerged to reclaim regional languages and folk traditions against Westernised modernity.
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An essential April watchlist highlighting fifteen films to watch on the occasion of the birth anniversaries of Jyotirao Phule and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.
The new generation of actors shaped by the social media era, including Panday and Padda, appears more measured in handling fame and choosing projects. Even so, their second film will undoubtedly face far greater scrutiny.
It is July the 4th, Independence Day in the US, and the ER is still full to the brim and tipping over, all the while dealing with internal and external chaos.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, produced by Warner Bros., radically reimagines what can be done with a mummy film, bringing the character back towards its roots in body horror.
Asha Bhosle’s corporeal style of singing was a transgressive sonic and visual force.
Ben Wheatley’s new film is a neo-Western caper with well-choreographed action sequences that infuse comedy into their gore. However, the film stops just a notch below the quality of action sequences Hollywood is used to churning out.
Visions du Réel 2026 | Soumya Mukhopadhyay’s non-fiction stretches form and rhythm in trailing an imagined worker of a forsaken jute mill.
Sympathetic gaze towards an Israeli soldier in 'Unconditional' has sparked immediate online censure
Dijo Jose Antony’s Pallichattambi (2026) aims to roar like a political epic and cheer like a mass entertainer, but ends up sounding like both rehearsals happening in the wrong rooms.
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