As voting began in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal on April 23, 2026, an intense heatwave sweeping parts of India cast a shadow over the electoral process, with . Earlier, on April 9, 2026, Kerala went to the polls for its Assembly elections amid an unusually early and humid summer. The reshaped campaigning across the…
House Democrats will hold a pair of “shadow hearings” in California next week on the upcoming midterm elections — part of a broader party effort to defend state voting systems against mounting critiques and threats of intervention from the Trump administration. Such hearings, similar to those recently held in Los Angeles on President Trump’s immigration…
By 8.30 in the morning in the Punalur assembly constituency of Kollam district, the heat is already oppressive. A narrow residential lane hums with election activity, but the energy feels strained. Major candidates C Ajay Prasad (Left Democratic Front), Noushad Younis (United Democratic Front), and B Raghunathan Pillai (National Democratic Alliance) move from gate to gate,…