Nearly two crore young voters, or those between the ages of 18 and 29 would be first-time voters. Regardless of the outcome of the elections or the imperfections that might impact its conduct, the fact that a system has been created where some 100 crore people are going to determine who will represent them in the highest institution of governance is a tremendous collective achievement to be proud of.
The escalation of tensions between Israel and Iran in West Asia has once again brought the region to the brink of conflict.
Amidst the kaleidoscope of Tamil Nadu’s political landscape, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finds itself entangled in a complex web of identity, ideology, and electoral aspirations.
It can rightfully be termed an assembly of Gods and Goddesses, a parliament of divinity. Under the picturesque rotunda of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) in Mumbai, sculptures of ancient gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome, Egypt and Assyria have come together, along with a spectrum of Indian gods and deities in a unique global exhibition.
The UN’s fact-finding mission recently found Mahsa Amini’s custodial death as ‘unlawful’, and the subsequent state crackdown, an ‘egregious human rights violations’. In September 2022, Mahsa died in the custody of Iran’s Morality Police for violation of the Islamic Republic’s mandatory ‘hijab norms’.
Political consensus has not developed yet on the issues relating to land acquisition and labour laws. Resistance of different groups against land acquisition for open cast coal mine at Deucha-Panchami near Sainthia in Bengal is indicative of the fact that we have not moved an inch from the days of the Singur agitation when it comes to the issue of land acquisition. Various stakeholders are still opposed to the new labour laws
A valued friend, who had miraculously reappeared in my life and filled my heart, had disappeared in the mist of time forever. I grieved as one grieves the loss of a brother, for he was a brother. The loss, I knew in my guts, was irrecoverable.
The strong ethical, as well as legal base of providing adequate compensation to persons who suffer harm from side-effects of medicines, treatments and vaccines, is well-established.
The view from Washington seems to be that the more China clings to Russia following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the stronger the calls will grow in the USA and the Western world to treat China and Russia as interchangeable enemies bent on imposing their vision of a new world order.
The infamous Sinaloa Cartel is a major player in this system. Till 2005-2007, Chinese traders in both legal wildlife commodities and illegal wildlife products dealt directly with local hunters, poachers, and fishermen. Today, Mexican narco-criminal groups have inserted themselves into the value chain, as it were, as facilitators and/or middlemen.
