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By Mark Gruenberg Millions of voters, many of them Democrats including historic numbers of women, angry at the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and subsequent GOP actions trashing everyone but the 1 percent, are mobilizing in a blue wave. A fearful part of the Trump base, many...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress sources say state-level seat adjustments for the Assembly elections have been left to the respective state units and a grand alliance of opposition parties for the Lok Sabha would be taken up only after the five state assembly elections are over. But the...
By Subrata Majumder Gone are the days when the US sneezes, Japan gets a cold. Today, Japan can say ‘No’ to US. Despite USA’s grave concern over the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, the recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China shows Japanese willingness to...
By Nitya Chakraborty Bad days are staring at the Narendra Modi Government just six months before the scheduled elections to the Lok Sabha. The CBI administration is in tatters, both the top bosses of this premier investigation agency of the country, are fighting in courts, the RBI...
By Aditya Aamir If nobody has noticed so far, there’s something about Rahul Gandhi that has largely gone unnoticed. He is one of those individuals least “self-aware” among politicians. Bet the mirror is no great shakes for the Congress president. The stubble and the creased loose kurta-pyjama does...
By Amulya Ganguli In the absence of “achhey din”, the BJP has had no option but to turn to its standard formula aimed at consolidating the Hindu voters – the “core” section of the communal-minded as well as the generally conservative groups – by playing the temple card....
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Recent political developments in Madhya Pradesh seem to indicate an improvement in Congress chances in the coming Assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Indore, the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh, where he addressed a public meeting and held road shows, reportedly received...
By Nitya Chakraborty As expected, the far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party won last Sunday’s Presidential elections in Brazil securing 55.1 per cent of the total votes over his rival Fernando Haddad of the Leftwing Workers Party’s 44.8 per cent. The difference is...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP president Amit Shah has let the cat out of the bag at last. The pretence that the Sabarimala struggle is only to protect the rights of the believers has been dropped. Shah’s highly provocative speech at Kannur, the hotbed of CPI(M) politics,...
Supreme Court restricts the sale of crackers: Short of a complete ban, the Supreme Court restricted the sale of crackers by fixing the time of bursting of crackers, i.e., on Diwali and other religious festivals, crackers could be burst only from 8pm to 10pm, while on Christmas and on...