Confusion and chaos in France

July 9, 2024

Inside about a week, French politics has taken a crazy turn, swinging from extreme right to extreme left. The first round of the Parliamentary election saw far-right Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (Rassemblement National or RN in French) clearly ahead of others. Following this the several leftist parties including the...

UK election: Keir Starmer incoming

July 4, 2024

The United Kingdom is headed for its general election on Thursday. By Friday morning India time, the world will get a clear idea on which way Britain has voted, Conservative or Labour. The answer is most likely Labour, with all opinion polls showing Leader of the Opposition, Keir Starmer’s party...

Discuss in Parliament status of women in Bengal

July 2, 2024

In the sad practice of hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons, West Bengal is back in the news, once again for a gender crime—this time for the public flogging of a woman by a leader from the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress in an area called Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur...

PM Modi will head a stable government

June 13, 2024

In this age of misinformation and disinformation, when the course of an election can be impacted by fakery—for instance, the Opposition claim that the BJP would change the Constitution and remove reservation if it got 400-plus seats, which had some impact on the party’s Dalit votes—it’s important to take note...

India will not tolerate destabilisation attempts

June 11, 2024

The dastardly terrorist attack on a bus full of Hindu pilgrims in Jammu’s Reasi on Sunday late afternoon was timed to send a message to the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was being sworn in the same evening in New Delhi. Perpetrated by Pakistan-backed terrorists it was...

What will be the agenda of Modi 3.0?

June 6, 2024

Now that it’s clear that Narendra Modi is returning as Prime Minister of India for the third time, what will be the agenda of Modi 3.0? The PM has said that “the country will write new chapters of big decisions” in his third term and that he will hit “hard...

Accept the election results gracefully

June 4, 2024

Now that the exit poll results for the Lok Sabha elections have been published, a clear trend is decipherable from the plethora of data available in the public domain. While the exact numbers on results day may differ from those predicted, but the general direction is pointing towards a victory...

Stop casting aspersions on Election Commission

May 28, 2024

A week ahead of the results of the general elections, efforts to muddy the credibility of the electoral process is going on in full swing. Every effort has been made over the years to question the electronic voting machines, by spreading canard. The political parties opposing the use of EVMs,...

WHICH WAY ARE THE LOK SABHA ELECTIONS HEADED?

May 23, 2024

Now that five phases of the seven-phase 2024 general elections are over, and as we enter the final stretch, are we nearer to predicting the way results day on 4 June will unfold? While only the super-optimists or perhaps the extremely foolish will stick their necks out on what the...

Let Iran’s people have their say

May 21, 2024

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, along with his Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, was declared dead on Monday in a helicopter crash that took place on Sunday. Raisi, 63, was a hardliner. Before his death, Raisi was seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 85, Iran’s Supreme Leader. However, there...