Mamata’s standoff meets constitutional wall
West Bengal’s political transition moved from defiance to formal closure after Governor R N Ravi dissolved the state Legislative Assembly with effect from May 7, ending Mamata Banerjee’s attempt to prolong her stay as chief...
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Stalin lets allies weigh Vijay offer
Tamil Nadu’s unsettled verdict has pushed the DMK’s smaller allies into the centre...
in Happening Now May 8 ·Hormuz clash tests fragile Iran truce
American and Iranian forces exchanged fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday,...
in Happening Now May 8 ·Nashik TCS case turns sharper
Nashik police have arrested Nida Khan, a suspended Tata Consultancy Services employee and...
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By T N Ashok CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s political drama entered its most decisive phase on Friday evening as actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay moved within touching distance of forming the State’s next government after the Communist Party of India and the CPI(M) extended unconditional support to his fledgling Tamilaga Vettri...
Bihar Cabinet Expansion Exposes PM Narendra Modi’s Double Standard
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Making JD(U) Leader Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant Kumar a minister in the CM Samrat Choudhary led BJP government in Bihar made headlines. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also present during oath-taking, which is seen as his approval of dynastic politics if practiced under his political...
After Congress-Led UDF’s Grand Win In Keralam, Battle On For CM Post
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress has commenced the process of government formation in Keralam, where the party-led UDF registered a marked victory in the assembly polls, winning 102 seats in the 140-member assembly. The Congress Legislative Party met in Thiruvananthapuram on May 7 to pass a resolution authorising...
India Is Celebrating Schooling Numbers Rather Than Quality Of Education
By R. Suryamurthy India has spent the last two decades celebrating numbers. Number of schools built. Number of children enrolled. Number of toilets constructed. Number of tablets distributed. Number of smart classrooms sanctioned. In the political imagination of the republic, scale itself became evidence of progress. And to an...
Protection Of Food Security Has Emerged As A Major Task For Asian Nations
By Kunal Bose Food security for countries across the globe at all times will largely depend on how well the farm sector of the world’s two most populous countries, namely, India and China are doing. Of the world population of 8.3bn, India is home to 1.48bn followed by China...
Marx’s Teachings Are Most Relevant In The Present Era Of AI And New Technology
By Sanjay Roy Technological development and innovation have been the driving force of human civilisation. With change in technologies, the production process, labour process and measurement of human contribution to social product undergoes change. The current phase of digital technology with AI as the emerging general-purpose technology is also...
Recordings Reveal Big U.S. Plan To Engineer Regime Change In Latin America
By Cassandra Swart NEW YORK: A leak of supposedly private audio recordings from Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram—speculated to come from a source close to former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández—has unmasked an alleged plot to force regime change in Honduras and other Latin American countries....
Selecting Chief Minister Of West Bengal Is A Delicate Task For BJP Leadership
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP won the West Bengal election with the most recognizable face leading from the grassroots to the state level against Mamata led TMC is Suvendu Adhikari. He also defeated TMC supremo CM Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur Vidhan Sabha constituency. Naturally, he is seen as the...
RSS Ensured BJP Victory By Consolidating Hindu Votes In Bengal Polls
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding nursing an intense dislike for Narendra Modi, the RSS played existential role in Hindu consolidation in Bengal and transforming it from a fragmented demographic into a unified voting bloc. Through grassroots mobilization it motivated thousands of local apolitical Hindu youths to come forward to protect...
Vijay At The Gates, Dravidian Rivals In The Shadows As Churning Continues In Tamil Nadu
By T N Ashok CHENNAI: For the first time in nearly six decades, Tamil Nadu stands suspended between the collapse of an old political order and the uncertain birth of a new one. The stunning rise of actor-turned-politician Vijay and his fledgling party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, has broken the...
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s 15 Year Tenure Has Ended In Infamy
By Anjan Roy KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee’s chief minister tenure is ending in infamy. It should not have inevitably ended that way. Even after her stunning loss, she is refusing to resign and now demanding what was an anathema for her all along— President’s Rule for Bengal. Her cringing to...
Election Commission’s Implementation Of SIR Impacted Results In Bengal Polls
By Krishna Jha It was in June 2025, five months ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar that Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was announced by Election Commission. The Commission cited concerns that several voters in the state were illegal immigrants who had obtained voter identity cards...
Economic Distress Of Common Indians Deepens But No Corrective Measures Seen
By Nilotpal Basu Dark clouds of deepening economic distress are looming over the country’s people with dire predictions for price rise adding to the twin crises of raging unemployment and stagnating wages that have been haunting the country for several years now. The US-Israel war on Iran and its...
Growing Support For Far Right In Europe Has Been Eroding Democracy
By Francesca De Benedetti LONDON: Last summer, Giorgia Meloni’s Italian government approved a so-called “anti-Gandhi law,” which criminalizes even nonviolent protests and passive resistance. The highly controversial “Security Decree” was recently followed by a further one, introducing measures such as preventive detention during public gatherings and signalling a shift...
Mamata’s Defiance Makes A Mockery Of Constitutional Propriety
By K Raveendran Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to resign after a decisive electoral defeat is a political act dressed up as constitutional ambiguity. It may create noise, spectacle and temporary uncertainty, but it does not create a sustainable claim to office. A chief minister holds power only so long as...
Delimitation In Assam And SIR In West Bengal Top Factors For BJP’s Win
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The data for the 2026 election results clearly show that delimitation of 2023 in Assam and the SIR of 2026 in West Bengal were chief factors of BJP’s spectacular wins in both the states respectively. As for the surge in the BJP’s support base, there...
Mamata’s Refusal To Quit Has Some Similarities With Trump After 2020 U.S. Polls
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers In the spring of 2026, what was expected to be a routine democratic exercise in West Bengal has spiralled into one of the most fraught constitutional moments in India’s recent political history. The votes have been counted, the results declared, and yet power remains contested—not...
TVK Supremo Vijay’s Numbers Game: Power Within Reach, But Not Yet In Hand
By T N Ashok CHENNAI: In Tamil Nadu, electoral earthquakes are not new. But the 2026 verdict has produced something rarer than a landslide—it has delivered a political paradox. Vijay, the state’s newest political force and its most electrifying public figure, has shattered the long-entrenched dominance of the Dravidian...
