Opinion Video features innovative video journalism commentary — argued essays, Op-Ed videos, documentaries, and fact-based explanation of current affairs. The videos are produced by both outside video makers and The Times’s Opinion Video team. Opinion Video features innovative video journalism commentary — argued essays, Op-Ed videos, documentaries, and fact-based explanation of current affairs. The videos … Read more
Opinion Video features innovative video journalism commentary — argued essays, Op-Ed videos, documentaries, and fact-based explanation of current affairs. The videos are produced by both outside video makers and The Times’s Opinion Video team. Opinion Video features innovative video journalism commentary — argued essays, Op-Ed videos, documentaries, and fact-based explanation of current affairs. The videos … Read more
P. Sarin (left) and Rahul Mamkootathil | Photo Credit: K K Mustafah and Facebook Politicians usually leave their rancorous partisanship at the door when making campaign stops at social events. However, such practised diplomacy appeared pointedly absent at the byelection hustings, notably in the Palakkad Assembly constituency in Kerala. The electoral battle appeared to assume … Read more
When Uddhav Thackeray warned the Congress ‘not to stretch till it snapped,’ the Congress high command sent its emissary – Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala to Matoshree, the family residence of Shiv Sena UBT president Uddhav Thackeray, to placate him. In the scheme of things of the Shiv Sena (earlier undivided, and now Sena UBT), immense … Read more
Veena Vijayan. File image. | Photo Credit: TH A headline-hogging report that the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) in Chennai had recorded the statement of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter and owner of a now-dormant IT consultancy last week, Veena Vijayan, dominated television chyrons and elicited sharp reactions from either side of the political aisle … Read more
BRS leader and former MLA Balka Suman has alleged that the Congress is deliberately diverting public attention from its failure to fulfil election promises. He accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of engaging in diversionary tactics, asserting that none of the guarantees made in the Congress manifesto have been fulfilled over the past nine months, … Read more
new video loaded: These Venezuelan Election Observers Got Death Threats. Now They’re in Hiding. transcript Back transcript These Venezuelan Election Observers Got Death Threats. Now They’re in Hiding. The New York Times spoke to several election volunteers for Venezuela’s opposition party who found that Edmundo Gonzáles defeated Nicolás Maduro in July. They fled the country … Read more
Gov. Tim Walz completed his transformation from a little-known governor to a leading party figure with his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday night. As he gave the most consequential address of his career, attendees made clear that they had quickly become familiar with his life story, including his background as … Read more
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik with V.K. Pandian. V.K. Pandian has decided to quit active politics following the party’s defeat in the Odisha Assemble Elections. | Photo Credit: ANI In a setback to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), bureaucrat-turned-politician V.K. Pandian and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s close aide has decided to quit active politics … Read more
The complex electoral landscape of Uttar Pradesh is engulfed in the ‘mysterious’ political moves by its former chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati. Under opposition fire over allegations of being ‘BJP’s B team’, a jibe often taken by Samajwadi (SP) Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati was almost close to shedding the label … Read more