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By Girish Linganna Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday, July 5. He defeated the hard-line candidate Saeed Jalili, securing over 53.3% of the votes from more than 30 million ballots. This snap election was held after the previous president, Ebrahim Raisi, tragically died in...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Recently, cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor Balaji S Srinivasan posted a small cryptic message about the US presidential election on X (formerly Twitter). He wrote “Polymarket is the news,” and shared a screenshot of the prediction betting website, where the chances of Joe Biden winning the...
By Dr. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta The verdict of the 18th Lok Sabha polls, it goes without saying, was a slap on the face of the BJP and signified its moral defeat. It has also been indicative of the comeback of the Congress and a signal to the regional parties...
By K Raveendran Elon Musk’s reported decision to put Tesla’s India entry on hold might seem like a setback for the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) market. But a closer look reveals a situation where this delay could sting Tesla more than India. India’s potential as a future EV...
By Sushil Kutty The Telangana Rashtra Samithi, founded by former Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, transformed to Bharat Rashtra Samithi, a change brought about because KCR wanted a national role for the party and the Prime Minister’s post for himself. KCR proved to be overambitious and BRS couldn’t...
By Harihar Swarup Many things have been said about the first verbal skirmish in Parliament’s 18th session between NDA Government and opposition, or more specifically between Leader of 0ppsition, Rahul Gandhi, and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The most commonly heard comment is that opposition has finally found its voice,...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The progress towards achieving SDG 8 targets aiming at full and productive employment and decent work for all by 2030 is threatened by numerous roadblocks. Though global unemployment hit a historic low of 5 per cent, women and youth face higher unemployment rates. Informal employment...
By Dr Arun Mitra Every year First July is observed as the National Doctors Day to commemorate Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the second chief minister of West Bengal and a renowned physician, who was born and passed away on this day. This is a special occasion for us to...
By Arun Srivastava Amidst the euphoria of massive victory for Labour party in the parliamentary elections in Britain, there is certainly a bad news for its leader and now Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer that his arch bête noire Jeremy Corbyn has defeated Keir’s nominee with a huge margin...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The first step towards reversing a setback in politics, as in life, is to admit that there has been a setback. The CPI(M), which heads the Left Democratic Front(LDF) in Kerala has just done that. The party has promptly initiated steps aimed at identifying the...
By Anjan Roy It is a tale of two cities: London and Washington. It is the tale of two politicians who have been thrown up from amongst the crowd of claimants and confusion. It is a tale of the current contrast. Rishi Sunak, Britain’s first Asian prime minister of...
By Andrew Murray LONDON: Pressure is already being piled on new premier Sir Keir Starmer to adopt more radical policies after Labour’s general election victory today. In the most grudging landslide in parliamentary history, Labour assembled a huge Commons majority with half a million fewer votes than Labour secured...
By Satyaki Chakraborty As expected, the Labour Party won a resounding victory in the general elections in Britain held on July 4 by capturing more than 410 seats out of the total of 650 seats, thereby ousting the Conservative Party from power after its fourteen years rule. The Tories...
By Sushil Kutty Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi addresses the Prime Minister of India ‘Narendra Modi’ sans ‘Prime Minister’ and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started referring to Rahul Gandhi as ‘Balak Buddhi’. The mutual respect shown is extraordinary. If ‘Sansad TV’ was popular TV,...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With Indian National Congress (INC) saying no to alliance with Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for Haryana Vidhan Sabha Election scheduled to be held in September-October 2024, electoral battle in the state is set to be direct between the ruling BJP and the...
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The four Assembly by-polls in West Bengal, one of which is scheduled to be held at Maniktala in Kolkata and the others to be contested at Bagda, Ranaghat Dakshin and Raigunj hold differing political significance to Trinamool Congress and the Opposition comprising BJP, Left Front...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Major organisational reshuffle in the Congress will be undertaken soon. The party is looking forward to a round of fresh appointments at the AICC and state units, particularly where the party performed poorly, like Uttarakhand, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Gujarat. Of...
By Rohin Bhatt When King Charles I demanded that the Speaker of the House of Commons produce five members for arrest during the Civil War of the 1640s, Speaker Lenthall famously proclaimed, “May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this...