Bengal’s saffron surge ends Mamata era
BJP workers jeered Abhishek Banerjee at a Kolkata counting centre as West Bengal delivered one of its sharpest political verdicts, ending Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year rule and giving the Bharatiya Janata Party its first government in...
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Bengal file order signals power shift
West Bengal’s top bureaucracy moved to secure government records on Monday as the...
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Rahul reaches out after poll upheaval
Congress moved quickly to reopen channels with regional leaders after Assembly verdicts across...
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Suvendu Adhikari’s defeat of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur has...
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By T N Ashok The verdict from India’s sprawling five-state assembly elections of 2026 has redrawn the country’s political map with a force few had anticipated. What began as a routine electoral cycle across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry has culminated in something far more consequential:...
Love, Deaths And Stormy Sessions At 28 Dean Street
By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5, 1818 and died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days after his demise on March 17, Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the...
India’s 2026 Assembly Elections Outcome Was Partly Influenced By Generation Z
By R. Suryamurthy The temptation, in the immediate aftermath of the 2026 assembly verdict, is to read it as a familiar story of partisan expansion and opposition decline—of one party’s geographic spread and another’s organisational fatigue. That narrative, while not entirely wrong, is analytically insufficient. It explains who gained...
2026 Poll Results Show Tamil Nadu Has Moved Over From Identity Politics To Aspirations
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers The first thing to get out of the way: the idea that caste “did not work” in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026 is a bit too neat—and not entirely true. Caste didn’t vanish. It loosened. It blurred. And into that blur walked a man...
SP Supremo Akhilesh Yadav Has To Learn Lessons From Mamata Disaster In Bengal
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has to learn lessons from the defeat of TMC in Bengal assembly polls. Otherwise it would be very difficult for Samajwadi Party to put up challenge before resurgent BJP in 2027 assembly polls...
State Assembly Results Signal Big Pan India Consolidation Of BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the five assembly elections available on Monday May 4 give unmistakeable signs of further consolidation of the BJP pan India and fresh setbacks for the opposition INDIA Bloc. Two stalwarts of the opposition Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and M. K. Stalin in...
BJP Establishes Dominance In East India, Still Faced Hurdle In The South
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The results of the Legislative Assembly elections of Assam and West Bengal have just confirmed – BJP has established its political dominance in the East India scripting a new electoral history having far reaching political implications for the country. However, in the elections in South...
Vijay Storms The Citadels Of Dravidian Dupoly In Tamil Nadu
By T N Ashok The scale of what Vijay has pulled off in Tamil Nadu is not just unexpected—it is structurally disruptive. In a state where politics has, for over half a century, oscillated between two Dravidian poles—Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam—the sudden emergence...
UDF Stages Spectacular Comeback In Kerala Polls
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has scored a spectacular victory in the Kerala Assembly elections by riding the crest of an electoral tsunami. Conversely, the CPI(M)-headed Left Democratic Front (LDF) has suffered a shocking defeat. While the UDF is set to win 102 seats,...
Iran’s Grip On The Strait Of Hormuz Will Be Difficult To Break By U.S. Navy
By Asad Mirza The ongoing confrontation between Iran and the United States has brought renewed global attention to the Strait of Hormuz—a narrow maritime chokepoint vital to global energy flows. Despite superior Western military power, Iran’s ability to disrupt, control, and condition access to this corridor underscores a complex...
Donroe Doctrine Is Being Used To Make Latin America U.S. Investor’s Paradise
By Logan McMillen NEW YORK: Venezuela’s sweeping new mining law, passed on April 9, is the latest in a series of domestic “reforms” purportedly directed at rebuilding the country’s energy and mining sectors. This follows years of debilitating US sanctions and disinvestment, which have seen the mining centres of...
Remembering Karl Marx On His Birthday In Times Of Global Turmoil
By Dr Arun Mitra Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818.The ongoing global turmoil compels us to revisit the ideas of Karl Marx, whose critique of capitalism remains strikingly relevant. The recent aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran once again exposes the extreme greed that...
New Report Shows How AI Gives Cybersecurity Competitive Advantage
By Satyaki Chakraborty GENEVA: Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping cybersecurity and is the biggest driver of change in the field, according to a new World Economic Forum report released on May 4. Some 94% of cyber leaders identify AI as a defining force and 77% of organizations already use...
With Elections Over, Realistic Pump Prices Only A Matter Of Time
By K Raveendran Election-season restraint on fuel pricing is giving way to a harsher economic reality, and Indian consumers are likely to feel the impact first through the everyday costs that rarely appear as headline inflation until they have already entered household budgets. Petrol, diesel and cooking fuel are...
U.S. Withdrawal Of 5,000 Troops From Germany Signals Worsening Relations With Europe
By Satyaki Chakraborty The U.S. decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany announced on Friday, marks further deterioration in U.S. relations with Europe and NATO in the context of the Iran war as also the Russian war in Ukraine. Trump indicated his displeasure with the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz...
Enactment Of IR Code In November 2025 Is Not Helping The Indian Labour
By Sophy K.J The enactment of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 (‘IR Code’) November 21, 2025, brought about a significant change in the labour adjudication mechanism. The IR Code effectively abolished Labour Courts leaving behind a one-window adjudication forum at the Industrial Tribunal level. By its legislative scheme for...
High Time For Baghdad To Make Some Hard Decision On Pro-Iran Outfits
By Manish Rai Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), an Iraqi militia that receives support from Tehran, has been officially designated as a terrorist organization by the United States. They are offering a reward of up to $10 million for information regarding its leader, Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, who is also...
‘Animal Farm’ 2026: An Entertaining Adaptation Of The Orwell Classic
By Chauncey K. Robinson NEW YORK: A “fun” fact about the 1954 film Animal Farm, based on the novel by George Orwell, is that it was funded by the CIA (the same was true of the later screen adaptation of his 1984). The spy agency’s idea was to take...
