Akhilesh, KCR discuss national politics for about three hours

Akhilesh, KCR discuss national politics for about three hours

BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with SP president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in a meeting at Hyderabad on Monday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav and president of Samajwadi Party (SP), one of the key constituents of the anti-BJP alliance taking shape ahead of … Read more

Campuses in the vice-like grip of politics

Campuses in the vice-like grip of politics

Little would anyone have thought that the impersonation row at Christian College, Kattakada in Thiruvananthapuram, in the third week of May would open a can of worms in the higher education sector in Kerala. College Principal G.J. Shyju had forwarded to the University of Kerala the name of Visakh A., a first-year student and Students … Read more

Opposition boycott of Parliament building inauguration | Jaishankar says there should be a limit to doing politics

Opposition boycott of Parliament building inauguration | Jaishankar says there should be a limit to doing politics

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. File External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on May 26 described as “unfortunate” the decision by 20 Opposition parties to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building and said there should be a limit to doing politics. Editorial | Lost opportunity: On the acrimony over the inauguration of the new … Read more

BJP-ally Nishad Party dissolves State, national executives

BJP-ally Nishad Party dissolves State, national executives

Sanjay Nishad. File | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The State and the national executives of the Nishad Party, an ally of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, were dissolved on May 24, the party said in a statement. The party’s national president and Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Sanjay Nishad announced the move on the first … Read more

Talking Politics with Nistula Hebbar | Karnataka Results 2023 | What it means for Congress, BJP and JD(S)

Talking Politics with Nistula Hebbar | Karnataka Results 2023 | What it means for Congress, BJP and JD(S)

Karnataka Results 2023 | What it means for Congress, BJP and JD(S) The Congress has returned to power in Karnataka with an emphatic victory. Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah took the oath of office as the 24th Chief Minister of Karnataka, along with Karnataka Pradesh Congress Comittee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar, who was sworn … Read more

Jalandhar by-poll results | People of Punjab have voted of politics of work and defeated dynasty politics: Arvind Kejriwal

Jalandhar by-poll results | People of Punjab have voted of politics of work and defeated dynasty politics: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann addressing the media at party office, in New Delhi on May 14. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on May 13 said that AAP’s win in the Jalandhar by-poll was an unprecedented … Read more

Arrests over alleged secret ‘police station’ deepen showdown between Washington and Beijing | CNN

Arrests over alleged secret ‘police station’ deepen showdown between Washington and Beijing | CNN

CNN  —  “We don’t need or want a secret police station in our great city,” said Breon Peace, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Monday – expressing the likely feeling of many Americans at the news that the FBI has arrested two alleged agents for the Chinese government accused of … Read more

US should stop ‘encouraging’ Ukraine war, Brazilian president says | CNN

US should stop ‘encouraging’ Ukraine war, Brazilian president says | CNN

CNN  —  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that the United States should stop “encouraging” the war in Ukraine. “The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace; the European Union needs to start talking about peace so that we can convince Putin and Zelensky that peace … Read more

‘Part of my soul’: 4 takeaways from Biden’s trip to Ireland | CNN Politics

‘Part of my soul’: 4 takeaways from Biden’s trip to Ireland | CNN Politics

Dublin, Ireland CNN  —  Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in the Irish language) … Read more

In West Bengal, politics over Ram Navami processions a new phenomenon

In West Bengal, politics over Ram Navami processions a new phenomenon

Devotees participate in a procession on the occasion of Ram Navmi, in Kolkata, Thursday, March 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Celebrating festivals comes easily to the people of West Bengal and the State is often referred to as the land of “ Baro mashe tero parbon (13 festivals in 12 months)”. However, over the past few … Read more