On the night of 4 September, I returned from a candlelight march and was surfing various TV channels. I felt that the furore in Kolkata was on an increase. Nearly a month has elapsed since the heinous crime at R G Kar Hospital took place.
The pact between India and Singapore in the semiconductor sector, signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country, is a strategic move with significant implications for both nations.
It is disconcerting that the Election Commission of India (ECI), the mainstay of free and fair elections, is suffering from a credibility crisis. On the one hand, the public trust in the ECI is dipping.
The recent electoral victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia underscores a troubling shift in Germany’s political landscape, reflecting growing unease about immigration and its effects on society.
The Buckingham Canal, an architectural marvel of the early 19th century, stretches 796 kilometers and once served as a lifeline for the region, linking the bustling city of Madras (now Chennai) with the port town of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
When television asked Sunil Gavaskar after Shane Warne had died if the Australian had been the greatest-ever spinner, the Indian stalwart answered in the negative.
Clearly, President Putin is intent on asserting control of a strategic city that Russia has failed to fully capture despite two months of bombardment that have killed tens of thousands of civilians.
For political parties, the election is in their DNA, and without participating in the polls, they lose their relevance and in time their existence.
The use of such currency by China in some specific cities and the recent budget outline of India have given further importance to it.
In December 1991, three presidents, Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine met secretly at Belavezha in Belarus. That meeting rang the death knell of the Soviet Union.
