Enumeration Forms: Bengal reaches 83.57% voter form distribution in special revision driveEnumeration Forms distribution for electoral rolls in Bengal has reached 83.57 percent. House visits by Booth Level Officers are ongoing un...
11 Nov, 2025, 11.46 PM IST
Does the charisma of leaders or strategy wins polls? Bihar may offer a clue, but not an answerAs the modern election landscape evolves, political strategists emerge as key players influencing campaigns around the world. Their relianc...
31 Oct, 2025, 10.51 PM IST
Lok Sabha elections: Fatal heat waves are testing India's ability to protect 1.4 billion peopleKolkata faces extreme heat and heat waves with inadequate measures to protect residents. Commuters seek refuge in a glass-walled bus shelte...
16 May, 2024, 07.55 AM IST
No, not UBIquitous yetUniversal Basic Income (UBI) is a concept gaining traction globally, offering citizens a regular payment without conditions. While it's not...
01 May, 2024, 10.43 PM IST
Do big election rallies matter?When the Brigade Parade Ground in the heart of Kolkata was almost full during the Left-Congress-Indian Secular Front Sanyukta Morcha rally ...
16 May, 2021, 10.59 PM IST
West Bengal: Is the Left on its deathbed?In the clash of the titans where the TMC was in a straight fight with the BJP in most constituencies, the once all-powerful Left seems to h...
09 May, 2021, 03.53 PM IST
View: How prophetic is our exit poll?After its Bihar exit poll fiasco in 2015, polling agency Today’s Chanakya had explained, ‘A simple computer template coding marking the all...
30 Apr, 2021, 11.48 PM IST
View: A frank opinion on opinion pollsOne would expect some pollsters to underestimate one party’s eventual result while others to overestimate it. Instead, opinion polls are of...
12 Mar, 2021, 10.56 PM IST
Bihar election 2020: What opinion polls can learn from last electionThe number of available opinion polls for Bihar maybe less this time around; the 2015 blunder may be one reason for such temperance.
30 Oct, 2020, 11.25 AM IST
View: How the development of the Covid vaccine could influence the US polls outcomeThe November 3 election certainly is an important factor to the ‘race for a Covid vaccine’.
15 Sep, 2020, 12.30 AM IST
Why Delhi 2020 verdict is equally important for both poll pundits and political partiesThe fact of the matter is that opinion polls fail to predict the winner in many elections worldwide. Sometimes, despite correctly predictin...
10 Feb, 2020, 11.33 PM IST
View: How exit polls have repeatedly failed to predict the result accuratelyThe pollster can now estimate the proportion of voters who voted for a particular party more accurately.
20 May, 2019, 12.06 AM IST
From songs to short films, from music videos to myth-busters, Mamata’s Trinamool takes BJP head on in social media spaceThe Trinamool Congress leadership holding charge of the social media sector in West Bengal realises the importance of the demographics in t...
12 Apr, 2019, 12.03 PM IST
Why relying on big data analytics for strategies is a risky move for political partiesGartner estimated that 60% of big data projects fail. According to an analyst, this was 'too conservative', with the failure rate probably ...
30 Mar, 2018, 06.36 AM IST
View: From Harvard to House, how notebandi naysayers got it so wrongThe assembly polls may not resolve questions over the economic consequences of demonetisation, but they will put a lid on the debate over i...
12 Mar, 2017, 02.27 PM IST
Rise in voters in Bengal: Final electoral roll 2015The final voters' list was the result of a special summary revision of the draft roll undertaken last October by the office of the Chief El...
08 Jan, 2015, 11.17 AM IST
IIT students turn Narendra Modi's backroom boysAs the Lok Sabha elections approach, IIT-Kharagpur and IIM-Calcutta are emerging as institutions from where students will help the poll pro...
24 Feb, 2014, 03.37 PM IST