By Kalyani Shankar In democratic countries like India and the United States, it is often surprising that politicians with controversial pasts are still elected. However, the reasons for this still need to be better understood. For instance, multiple indictments have been filed against ex-President Donald Trump. Does a...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Demolition of houses of any particular community by the states in India, especially after communal violences, has long been used as a political tool by the ruling establishments to supress the religious minorities, political dissenters, and the poor, and to appease the particular bigger...
By Arun Srivastava Making unethical and unfounded remarks against his adversaries and political enemies and always being in the denial mode, have been the chief traits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Obviously, the submissions of the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, before the Supreme Court, on behalf of the...
By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha is in trouble. Five fellow Rajya Sabha MPs have asked for a privilege motion against Chadha for allegedly forging their signatures to a select committee proposal on the Delhi Services Bill which was passed in the Rajya...
BY Jody Ray On July 26, a splinter faction of the Niger military overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, confining him to the presidential palace. While telecommunications infrastructure was still intact, a tweet from the premier’s office claimed Bazoum and family were in good health but were prepared to...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties are facing the real test of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh to take on BJP for crucial 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 polls. The re-entry of Rahul Gandhi to Lok Sabha following Supreme Court order has boosted the morale of the...
By James M Dorsey The United Arab Emirates resembles US ‘Teflon President’ Ronald Reagan. Congresswoman Pat Schroeder awarded Reagan the label because nothing stuck to him while he was president in the 1980s – not the recession, not his interventions in Lebanon that cost the lives of 241...
By Tirthankar Mitra A political outfit once considered to be a fringe player has made its presence felt over a wider area after the dust settled following declaration of West Bengal panchayat poll results. Indian Secular Front (ISF) have emerged with 336 seats. Of these, 325 are gram...
By Nitya Chakraborty British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s latest film ‘Oppenheimer’ is creating waves in the cinema halls all over the world, including India, bringing to the fore once again the history behind the making of the atom bomb that was dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima on August...
By Nantoo Banerjee China, the world’s largest steelmaker with annual crude steel output of over one billion tonnes, is out to dampen India’s bid to double its production capacity from the present level of 150 million tonnes to 300 mt by 2030 by continuously dumping its ferrous metals...