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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...
New Labour PM Under Pressure To Deliver Change After Big Win
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...
UK Labour’s Massive Win Is A Positive Development For Europe
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...
First Session Of 18th Lok Sabha Has Been A Let Down For Narendra Modi
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,...
Direct Fight Between BJP And Congress In Haryana State Polls Imminent
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...
Four Assembly Bypolls In Bengal Have Special Significance For BJP
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...
Soon, Congress Internal Rejig To Address Lok Sabha Setback In 8 States
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...
Presiding Officers Of Both Houses Of Parliament Must Function Impartial
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...
Akhilesh Yadav Has Emerged As The Most Successful Leader Of INDIA Bloc In Lok Sabha Polls
By Arun Srivastava General election results in India have always been extraordinary and have thrown new set of political leaders. This year’s polls while were a moral victory for the INDIA bloc and marked the setback to communal politics, it also threw two young leaders, Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh...
Prime Minister Prachanda Is Finally Cornered In The Fluid Nepal Politics
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Nepal’s tumultuous politics is once again at it, threatening to replace the current government with a new one. The one-and-a-half-year-old government headed by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’ Prachanda’ has been pushed to minority after the former Prime Minister KP Sharma’s CPN-UML with 78 members...
Narendra Modi Govt Must Keep In Abeyance Three Laws Till A Fresh Scrutiny Is Done
By P Sudhir The BJP has ensured that the three new laws passed by the government at the tail end of the last Lok Sabha in a most cavalier and undemocratic fashion have now been enforced all over the country on July 1. These laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,...
Bizarre Developments In Democratic Party Over Joe Biden’s Sticking To Candidacy
By Sushil Kutty “Joe and Jill went up the hill… For Joe to get a second term… Joe fell down and broke his crown… And Jill came tumbling after…” But no, President Joe Biden’s wife Dr Jill Biden isn’t ready to come “tumbling after”. On the contrary, Joe has...
Trusted Informal Ally BJD Turns A Bitter Foe Of BJP After A Decade
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Biju Janata Dal (BJD) led by Naveen Patnaik, five-time Chief Minister of Odisha, had been a trusted informal ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a decade since 2014, but after being greatly suffering twin election debacles – both for...
South Africa’s New Coalition Government Of ANC And DA Facing Multiple Challenges
By Tirthankar Mitra Cautious optimism fraught with challenges has been ushered in South Africa post President Cyril Ramaphosa forming a coalition government. The new government has economic and social rejuvenation high on its agenda with the inclusion of Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen and other Opposition parties. The...
Attacks Against The Minorities In The Country Have Increased After Lok Sabha Polls
By Krishna Jha The non-Hindu people in Hindustan “must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of Hindu race and culture, or (they) may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no...
Come 2026- Modi govt will collapse if NDA loses the coming assembly elections
By Nitya Chakraborty The first short session of the 18th Lok Sabha has just ended with the third time Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving the impression once again that nothing different happened in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, he remains the same unvanquished leader of the majority party BJP...
RSS leadership is not happy with Narendra Modi’s style of governance in his last term
By Harihar Swarup The RSS hints at the course correction from the BJP and Modi government 3.0, which it wants to be reflected in the choice of new party president. The third tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi got off to a turbulent start. A series of unrelated events...
Modi fears Rahul Gandhi is taking away BJP’s Hindu vote bank
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his reply to the motion of thanks to the President's address to the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday after a day of holding forth in the Lok Sabha. The opposition sought to drown Modi’s voice in the din of constant sloganeering. The...
