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By Ajay Kumar The United States of America has left the United Nations Human Rights Council. This news came as a shock to some and as an eventuality to many. This latest decision is part of a broader foreign policy shift that is being witnessed under the Donald...
By G. Srinivasan India and China do not enjoy natural bonhomie due to historic and legacy issues that range from border disputes of bygone decades to the latest crop of problems originating from the dumping of the Middle Kingdom’s cheap products into the Indian markets. Yet as the...
By Kalyani Shankar Of the three BJP ruled states going to polls at the end of the year, the party is really worried about Rajasthan. It is more so after it lost to the Congress two parliamentary and one Assembly seats recently, which had proved the anti-incumbency factor...
Sushil Kutty “Enough moping, this is a mope-free zone,” former United States President Barack Obama told ‘high-dollar’ Democrats the other day, asking them to pull up their socks and get ready for the 2020 presidential bash. His message found echo in God’s Own Country Kerala, where newly elected...
Supreme Court appoints the third judge in the Tamil Nadu MLA disqualification case – The Supreme Court decided to appoint the third judge in the AIADMK MLA disqualification, wherein the Madras High Court had given a split verdict in June, 2018. A transfer petition was filed in the Apex...
By Nitya Chakraborty The landslide victory of the maverick Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the crucial Presidential elections in Mexico on Sunday, comes as a major boost to the leftist forces in Latin America who have been fighting a battle for survival after a pink tide...
By Arun Srivastava After Nitish Kumar walked out from the grand alliance, Rahul Gandhi, then Congress general secretary, had accused him of sacrificing his credibility and rules for power. Power makes a man lose his credibility, he had stated. Annoyed with Nitish’s shifting of loyalty, Rahul had...
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 6th June, 2018, the Maharashtra police in one swoop arrested five activists, including a lawyer known for his work on dalit rights and political prisoners, in connection with caste-based violence that erupted in Bhima-Koregaon town in Maharashtra in the first week of January, 2018....
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) investment in equities via exchange-traded funds (ETFs) generated 17.23 per cent return as of February this year. It had invested Rs 41,967.51 crore in ETFs. EPFO had sold ETFs worth Rs 2,500...
By Michael Arney On Tuesday’s Democratic primary election for New York’s 14th Congressional District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accomplished a nearly impossible task: She defeated her heavily overfunded incumbent opponent. With practically all votes counted, the bartender-turned-socialist-candidate trounced high ranking, ten-term incumbent and Queens Democratic Party Chair Rep. Joseph...