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Rubiales-Hermoso Kiss Controversy Is A Raging Issue In Europe
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav While Indians are gloating over the ongoing diplomatic row between India and Canada, their European counterparts are spending their evenings debating a salacious scandal. The story begins on August 20 when the Spanish and UK teams played the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final in Sydney....
British Weekly The Economist Played A Key Role In Encouraging Army Coup In Chile In 1973
By John McEvoy The Economist decided to mark the fifty-year anniversary of Chile’s coup by insisting that Chileans move on from the events of 1973 — even as its own writer distorted the historical record beyond recognition. On September 11, 2023, exactly fifty years after the brutal 1973 coup,...
Fresh Judicial Look At Setting Agencies After Adversaries Is Ominous For Modi Govt
By K Raveendran There is renewed hope for those who have dared to challenge the Modi government’s practice of using Enforcement Directorate to go after political adversaries. The Supreme Court has made it known that a three-judge special bench has been constituted to review a controversial judgment passed by...
Congress Needs To Start Talks With SP On Seat Sharing Immediately
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is in dominant position in the three election bound states of the Hindi belt – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. Hence, the party may decide not to initiate seat sharing talks with Samajwadi Party (SP), which has only marginal presence in Madhya Pradesh, while...
Uncertainty Over Chief Minister Chouhan’s Future May Affect BJP Fortunes In Madhya Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty To be intuitive is not a criteria to understand what’s troubling the Bharatiya Janata Party as it gets set for the next set of assembly elections including in Madhya Pradesh, where the party has released its second list of 39 candidates. There’s a message in the...
Pakistani Taliban’s Latest Attacks Create Country-Wide Insecurity
By Manish Rai The recent bold attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, wreaking havoc paints an alarming picture of rising instability across Pakistan. Especially the TTP’s recent incursion into Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering Afghanistan is very concerning. Because it may...
After Bypoll Win, Congress In Kerala Back To Factionalism
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The euphoria generated by the spectacular victory the Congress scored in the Puthuppally assembly constituency by-election has all but evaporated. Factionalism, which has been the bane of the party in Kerala has resurfaced with redoubled vigour to the chagrin of the party’s rank and file...
Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winner Waheeda Rehman Is An Actress With Grace And Dignity
By Tirthankar Mitra If a week is a long time in politics, six decades and few years more can be stated to be too long a timespan for an inarguably thespian to be bestowed with a lifetime achievement award. But epitome of grace that Waheeda Rehman is, she will...
Ten Years Of Narendra Modi’s Big Hype ‘Make In India’ Is A Story Of Total Failure
By Girish Linganna The conspicuous lack of fanfare in the run-up to this significant tenth anniversary could suggest that the government acknowledges that extravagant public relations efforts are no longer, effective in concealing the alarming decline of the manufacturing sector. As Make in India, the flagship program of the...
President Biden Joining Striking Auto Workers Picket Is A First In US History
By Satyaki Chakraborty The international labour movement witnessed a unique spectacle on September 26 when on the 12th day of the strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW), the United States of America president Joe Biden visited the picketing workers in Michigan for extending support. This never happened in...
