Can Arvind Kejriwal be written off?
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been written off many times, and now he's facing deep trouble again.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been written off many times, and now he's facing deep trouble again.
There is a horror movie unfolding whereby the Hollywood hero, after trying garlic and all, is now driving a stake at the heart of the Chinese Dracula.
As the electoral battleground heats up in Rae Bareli, the speeches delivered by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi at their respective rallies in the constituency offer a glimpse into the divergent strategies of the two major political camps.
As Maharashtra’s 13 seats head to the polls in the fifth and final phase of the general election on May 20, the state finds itself at a political crossroads.
In 1914 Europe was embroiled in a war whose horrors would be felt for years. Far from the brutalities of war in the southern tip of the port-city of Bombay (now Mumbai), near the Gateway of India, construction was completed of a magnificent building whose foundation stone was laid earlier in 1905.
An Afghan economist has said that the new budget would probably be only a quarter of that for 2021. He might have been overly cynical, but in the absence of recognition by the comity of nations, the going is bound to be tough on the fiscal front.
European officials argue that it is a better deterrent to keep Vladimir Putin in the dark about what measures might be used against him. Russia has apparently become the common target of both the United States and the European Union, across the Atlantic. The geostrategic outlook is remarkably fogbound even as Europe, once again, countenances conflict.
The AFSPA (1958) that happens to be one of the most draconian instruments of security and control, first applied to Assam and Manipur and later amended in 1972 to extend to Tripura, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland, vests unaccountable and extraordinary powers with the armed forces. The public consciousness against the AFPSA was raised when a group of elderly and middle-aged women from different organisations of the Meira Paibi the largest civilian movement fighting state atrocities and human rights violations in Manipur, besides drug abuse and crimes against women - led a protest march against the rape of Thangjam Manorama by soldiers of Assam Rifles. The fast unto death begun by Irom Chanu Sharmila on 2 November 2000, in protest against the Act, that continued well into August 2016, stirred public conscience
SAD has played a pivotal role in shaping Punjab's politics in the post-independence era. It had also ruled the country as part of the NDA coalition only to sever its connection last year to support the farmers' agitation.
Between 1995 and 2021, the top one per cent wealthiest people in the world captured 38 per cent of the growth in global wealth, whereas the bottom 50 per cent had a pitiful 2 per cent share.
