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By Sushil Kutty In the pictures accompanying the report, everybody is smiling. Even the chubby baby. But behind the happiness, there’s unhappiness. We are talking of ‘Bharat, that is India’ and the World Happiness Report for 2024 which makes sad reading for Indians who have been thrown to the...
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury The year 2024 has been marked by a flurry of elections across the globe, each carrying significant weight in shaping the future trajectory of their respective countries and, to some extent, the world at large. Among these pivotal elections, Britain’s upcoming general election stands...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections slipping into top gear, Kerala is set for a no-holds-barred and bruising battle. The State is going to the polls on April 26. No doubt, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) has had a head-start with the Front...
By Arvind Narrain India, the world’s largest democracy, has unfortunately been witnessing a backsliding on human rights. It is in this context that the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) will be undergoing its review for accreditation by a jury of its peers which is the Global Alliance...
By Tirthankar Mitra United Kingdom Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is in a tight spot. So is the Conservative Party which he leads as the general election is inching closer. The political fortune of Sunak and the party he leads cannot be stated to be progressing swimmingly. It seems to...
By Harihar Swarup There is one question that haunts many viewers of Christopher Nolan’s film on creator of the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – J. Robert Oppenheimer — which swept the Oscars this year. Did Oppenheimer endorse the use of the bomb on an...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Hundreds of Cubans demonstrated peacefully in Santiago de Cuba and other cities across the island on March 17. Portrayed in some U.S. corporate media outlets as “anti-government” protests, the demonstrations were focused on electrical power outages and food shortages. The protests were reacting to...
By Nitya Chakraborty The late awakening of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud in seeing the quid pro quo relationship between the donors and the ruling party under the Electoral Bonds Scheme 2017 is welcome. The CJI has been firm in...
By Annie Domini Vladimir Putin has been re-elected as the Russian Federation’s new old president, securing a record fifth term in office with a thundering 87.28 percent of the vote, supported by over 75 million voters, more than his win in the 2018 presidential polls. To a consistent observer...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Politics of development has clearly emerged as a key narrative in the Lok Sabha election 2024 campaigns. Vikasit Bharat @ 2047 is the loudest high decibel bluff of PM Narendra Modi’s political campaign so far that has almost buried the three real concerns of the...
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s southern search for Lok Sabha seats to make up the targeted ‘370’ took him to Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. And just like in the north, the Bharatiya Janata Party hopes to take advantage of “Hindu sentiments” to secure...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Ever since Akhilesh Yadav joined Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi at Agra, there is a perfect understanding between Samajwadi Party and Congress for Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. Both the leaders sent positive message to the party leaders and workers through their action...
By Tirthankar Mitra Pushpa Kamal Dahal bode farewell to arms years ago. But perish the thought that ever since he has cast aside his pseudonym of Prachanda, forsaken armed struggle and laying down arms walked away from the hills of his homeland Nepal, he no longer has to watch...
By Girish Linganna India has been aiming to enhance its defense capabilities through the development of a more compact and efficient version of the BrahMos missile. BrahMos Aerospace, a defense corporation with Indo-Russian roots, is set to begin drop and dummy trials of the lighter and more compact Next...
By C.J. Atkins Hamas will win if Israel holds elections. That’s essentially the claim made by Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend as he hit back at U.S. political leaders pressuring him to send his country to the polls. Forced to respond to the explosive growth of a mass ceasefire movement...
By Nantoo Banerjee On the face of it the controversial citizenship amendment act of 2019 may appear to be purely humanitarian. It provides the government with a special provision to expedite the citizenship process for non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, and Parsis — to India...
By Kalyani Shankar The Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, has announced the 18th Lok Sabha election schedule, starting on April 19. He has identified four major problems that affect India’s free and fair elections. These are the 4Ms: Muscle power, Money power, Misinformation, and violations of the Model Code...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, could be looking at a lengthy prison sentence. US prosecutors have recommended that he be sentenced to 40-50 years behind bars, along with a hefty fine of $11 billion. Bankman-Fried was convicted in November...