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By Rahil Nora Chopra While Nitish Kumar and BJP have announced their seat-sharing plan for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the RJD-Congress alliance has not opened their card yet. The left parties are also not disclosing their stand, although all the three are opposed to Nitish-BJP alliance. It is...
By Chris Williamson Brazil heads to the polls on October 28 for the second round of what has perhaps been the most volatile and unpredictable election campaign since the country’s military dictatorship ended in 1989. The run-off is between the far-right Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad who is...
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: It is an uphill task to select candidates for the elections. The parties, particularly BJP and Congress, are finding it extremely difficult to handle the problem. For BJP it is much more arduous to select proper candidates with reports that the ruling party may...
By Subrata Majumder China’s Belt and Road Initiative, later renamed as BRI, is feared to be a cobweb for debt trap for developing and emerging nations. China woos small and weaker nations with infrastructure loans and when their debts are not paid, it captures their land and...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pinarayi Vijayan government has shed its ambivalence and reactive mode on the Sabarimala issue. A combative chief minister has sounded out a stern warning to the ‘criminals’ camping at the hill shrine and fomenting violence to thwart the attempts of the government...
By Aditya Aamir Morning, we found, it was a night of the long knives. But was it actually the night of the scorpion? It was raining allegations of corruption and the scorpion was in the house. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in danger of being Rafale stung...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: It is becoming clear that smaller parties can cause damage to all possible alliances and force new alignments for 2019 Lok Sabha elections in UP. Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav is likely to hit by Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia ) of...
By Nitya Chakraborty Come December. It can be the cruellest month for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP. If the present trends continue and the Congress and the other opposition parties can meet the electoral challenge of the assembly polls in the five states-Rajasthan, Madhya...
By Tom Gill It’s been 18 months since France was rocked by the crushing victory of the pro-European Union Emmanuel Macron and his new political movement in the presidential and legislative elections last year. That victory delivered a body blow to the two established parties—the conservative Les Republicains...
By Arun Srivastava Lynching and urban naxals have the same ideological background. While lynching was resorted to by the RSS and its frontal organisations to terrorise Muslims, Dalits and other minorities, traditionally anti-saffron and secular forces, the phrase urban naxal is the latest weapon designed by the RSS...