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By Girish Linganna Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas’s political wing in Gaza, has gone into hiding due to the intense efforts by Israeli forces to locate his whereabouts. Sinwar, who is recognizable by his distinctive white hair and black eyebrows, is considered one of the most wanted men...
India’s Earlier Clout In Global Diplomacy Is Waning In Recent Years
By Rejimon Kuttappan In 2015, the late Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj placed two telephone calls to the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia on March 27 and 29 seeking a safe passage for Indians stuck in war-torn Yemen. Following the Arab Spring in 2011, Yemen was grappling with...
Left Coalition In Spain Getting Big Backlash From Far Right And Judiciary
By Steven Forti Early this summer, no one would have bet a single euro that Pedro Sánchez would still today be Spain’s prime minister. After May’s local elections, in which the opposition right-wing parties won handsomely, many thought that the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Sánchez belonged to the politically...
Far Right Victory In Netherlands Elections Signals Bad Omen For European Liberals And Left
By Satyaki Chakraborty The results of the general elections in Netherlands held on November 22 indicating the emergence of the far right Party for Freedom (PVV) headed by Geert Wilders sent a shock wave across Europe. PVV became the biggest party in the Netherlands winning 37 of the 150...
For Ashok Gehlot, The Outcome Of Assembly Polls In Rajasthan Will Determine His Future
By Sushil Kutty Results of 199 Rajasthan Assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday will decide which party rules the state for the next five years. Since 1998 no party has been repeated twice in succession in Rajasthan. By that token, the Congress would be taking a break...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Has A Formidable Team For Assembly Poll
By Harihar Swarup As Telangana goes to polls, on November 30, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi took inspiration from Team India’s performance at the just concluded the ODI World Cup. Hoping to emulate the cricket team, the party launched a campaign asserting that, just as India will lift its...
Gujarat Govt’s Choice Of Ghol As A The State Fish Leads To Murmurs In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra A fish curry is a meal while macherjhol is a emotion that will find widespread support in West Bengal. Its residents who swear by the taste of hilsa would in all likelihood be foxed by Gujarat’s choice of Ghol as the state fish. Black spotted croaker...
Pleas Against SEBI’s Adani Probe: Greater Focus On Investor Loss Than Market Efficiency
By K Raveendran Irrespective of the outcome of the batch of petitions in the Supreme Court against the SEBI investigations into the charges levelled by US-based short-selling firm Hindenburg Research against the Adani group of companies regarding violations of stock market regulation, it is most likely that short selling...
Congress In Kerala Caught In Row Over YC Chief’s Election
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Nothing seems to be going right for the Congress in Kerala. As if the plethora of problems already plaguing the party were not enough, the Congress is caught in a major controversy over the election of the Youth Congress state president. The charge against the...
Odisha Under Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Has Achieved Success In Wooing Investors
By Kunal Bose Holding conferences of investors with attempts made to induct representation of as many foreign countries as possible have become an annual or biennial ritual with states in this country. Closing ceremonies will be marked by state chief ministers proudly announcing promised investments, in most cases of...
Gaza Conflict Ends Up Separating Wheat From Chaff Among Religious Leaders
By James M Dorsey Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel has not just divided Muslim political leaders. It’s also solicited diverse responses from religious figures and institutions, reflecting deeper divisions about what Islam stands for in the 21st century. At the core of the differences is the ability and...
Rahul Gandhi Should Be Careful In Calling Prime Minister Names During Poll Campaign
By Sushil Kutty Who is ‘Panauti’ for which political party will be known on December 3 when votes are counted and the results of the assembly elections are out. And if the 2024 general election favours the INDI-Alliance, the Election Commission, which has issued a show cause notice to...
Telangana State Polls: BRS, Congress, BJP Wage Battle Of Freebies
By Rahil Nora Chopra Telangana gears up for the assembly polls on November 30, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are rigorously campaigning. The Congress in Telangana has vouched a chain of commitments, including conducting a caste census and raising reservations for...
Congress Wants Decision Of Its Committee On Alliance In Assam Binding On Others
By Ashis Biswas As in neighbouring West Bengal, efforts to ensure a one-on-one contest by the INDIA constituents against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls are not going well in Assam , the biggest state in the Northeast with 14 seats. At the national...
India Need To Move With Caution In Dealing With The Muizzu Govt In Maldives
By Girish Linganna After being sworn in as the new president of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, has formally asked India to withdraw its military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago. This request was made during a meeting between Muizzu and India’s Minister for Earth Sciences, Kiren Rijiju, who...
GDP Growth In Indian Economy Does Not Automatically Lead To Poverty Reduction
By Prabhat Patnaik One of the striking findings of the Bihar Caste Survey, which bears out what the Left has been asserting for a long time, is that absolute poverty in the country is far more pervasive than what successive governments in India have been claiming. It shows that...
Didi’s Masterstroke: Sourav Ganguly As West Bengal Brand Ambassador
By Tirthankar Mitra With a knack of hitting the headlines, be it by scoring a century or taking off his shirt and standing bare-chested at Lords cricket ground or becoming BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly is in the news again. This time as the brand ambassador of West Bengal, the...
Sam Altman’s Return At OpenAI Means Profit Won In Its Fight With Safety
By Leif Weatherby On Friday, OpenAI, the Microsoft-funded operator of ChatGPT, fired its CEO, Sam Altman. Then, after five days of popcorn-emoji chaos, they hired him back. The sudden move, which billion-dollar investor Microsoft only learned about moments before it was released to the public, seems to have come...
