How will the West react to B’desh poll?
It is clear why Awami League is so desperate to make 7 January 2024 look like a genuine competition, with- out any real competitors.
It is clear why Awami League is so desperate to make 7 January 2024 look like a genuine competition, with- out any real competitors.
A fresh tussle between the Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat in West Bengal has erupted and this time it is over the date of commencement of the forthcoming monsoon session of the Assembly.
The leader of the opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday filed a petition at the Calcutta High Court demanding a CBI probe in the poll-related violence during the panchayat elections.
Jaishankar on Sunday criticised and slammed the West over its "bad habit" of commenting on India's internal matter.
Putin further criticized the United States and said that only America has many military bases around the world.
The sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia amid the ongoing war in Ukraine are a threat to the entire world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday during a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia's Vladivostok.
Russia has been imposed several sanctions by the Western countries after Putin sent troops into neighbouring Ukraine on February 24.
New Delhi is following a policy of enlightened self-interest amid the shifting sands of contemporary geopolitics where nothing is permanent.
The Western countries led by the US want to create a security architecture in Europe whereby Russia, an erstwhile military and nuclear power, would be a non-entity. This they want to achieve by expanding Nato until the doorstep of Russia. Obviously, this will not be acceptable to a major military power like Russia. In this exercise Ukraine has been used as a tool
Any discerning analyst of international politics in the post-Cold War era will point out that while delivering platitudes about promotion of an equitable world order, the Western powers led by US have always accorded primacy to their collective self-interest, never really abandoning the Cold War mentality of maintaining their sphere of influence, doggedly insisting that Nato is the only legitimate security organisation for Europe and Eurasia
