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Arabian Post Staff Shawn Henry, the president of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, has stirred controversy with his recent testimony, casting new doubts on the integrity of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Henry’s statements, given under oath, have prompted scrutiny regarding whether key players, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller and various intelligence officials, may have misled the public about the extent of Russian involvement. […]

Congress’s Hypocrisy Of The Highest Order In KeralaCongress’s Hypocrisy Of The Highest Order In KeralaBy P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It would have been a strong contender for the best joke of the year award but for the sheer hypocrisy and shamelessness that animated the claims. The reference is to the brazen Congress attempt to claim credit for the Vizhinjam international transshipment port project. The party, which opposed Kerala’s dream project […]
Big Organisational Rejig Planned By BJP Leadership In Uttar PradeshBig Organisational Rejig Planned By BJP Leadership In Uttar PradeshBy Rahil Nora Chopra The Lok Sabha election results in Uttar Pradesh signify a dramatic change in the state’s political fabric, with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party springing up a surprise and making eminent electoral gains against the powerful BJP. Samajwadi Party won 37 out of the 80 seats – making this its biggest performance ever […]
By K Raveendran If Aadhaar is a money matter, anything can be interpreted to mean anything else. This will be one of the key dilemmas that the seven-member constitutional bench will consider when it begins deliberations on the petitions against the use of money bill route by the Modi government to overcome legislative hurdles in […]
By Satyaki Chakraborty The national council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) had a deeper introspection on the performance of the ruling Left Democratic Front in Kerala in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections at its three day session in New Delhi from July 11 to 14. The party went into the root causes of […]
By Ben Chacko The Secret Service did their job and the man who drew first blood from Donald Trump is dead. We will never know for sure what combination of factors pulled his trigger but we do know that they germinated in the corrupt political culture of the imperial hegemony. For the entirety of its […]
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston The narrow escape of the Republican candidate Donald Trump from the gunshot at the campaign meeting in Pennsylvania on Saturday has imparted a more confrontationist dimension to the Presidential elections scheduled on November 5. The shooting incident just on the eve of the four day Republican convention beginning on July15 […]
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By Kalyani Shankar The recent results of by-elections for 13 seats in seven states are essential for understanding what people think of the major political parties. More than a month after the 2024 elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a third term, the INDIA bloc’s significant victory in securing ten of the 13 seats […]
By Harihar Swarup The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha has just concluded where an unprecedented level of acrimony was witnessed. Since this session was held immediately after the general elections, the mood during the electioneering, it appears, was carried into the house as was reflected in the speeches made from both sides. Few […]
By Sushil Kutty ‘No’, President Joe Biden is in no mood to step away from the race. Not for the sake of Vice President Kamala Harris nor for making the “Vice President Donald J Trump” gaffe. President Joe Biden mixed up names and titles at the Nato presser in Washington DC, where he answered tricky […]
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court decision on July 12 to grant interim bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and leave larger issues relating to PMLA cases to the consideration of a larger bench throws further light on the intersection of politics and law enforcement in India. The decision comes amidst a contentious legal […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aggravating factional quarrel that seems like a rebellion within Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) does not only underscore an unstable Akali politics in Punjab, but also the entire Sikh politics, a thing to be keenly watched for several reasons in the backdrop of its tumultuous history. The rebellious group led by Bibi […]
By Kalyani Shankar U.S. President Joe Biden’s underwhelming performance in the 2024 presidential debate last week raised concerns due to his apparent fatigue, forgetfulness, and confusion. This has caused uncertainty among supporters despite Biden’s attempts to reassure them in the post-debate period. Even last week, during a speech in Madison, Wisconsin, he initially said he […]
By Nantoo Banerjee It may look odd that India aspiring to be an industrial powerhouse and a major global economy received a total foreign direct investment (FDI) of only US$28 billion, last year, compared to tiny Singapore receiving $160 billion and Hong Kong $113 billion. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), […]
By Satyaki Chakraborty As expected, the Labour Party won a resounding victory in the general elections in Britain held on July 4 by capturing more than 410 seats out of the total of 650 seats, thereby ousting the Conservative Party from power after its fourteen years rule. The Tories got only 119 seats. Sir Keir […]
By Tirthankar Mitra Cautious optimism fraught with challenges has been ushered in South Africa post President Cyril Ramaphosa forming a coalition government. The new government has economic and social rejuvenation high on its agenda with the inclusion of Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen and other Opposition parties. The coalition was formed after African National […]
By Sushil Kutty “Joe and Jill went up the hill… For Joe to get a second term… Joe fell down and broke his crown… And Jill came tumbling after…” But no, President Joe Biden’s wife Dr Jill Biden isn’t ready to come “tumbling after”. On the contrary, Joe has Jill’s back and there is no […]
By P Sudhir The BJP has ensured that the three new laws passed by the government at the tail end of the last Lok Sabha in a most cavalier and undemocratic fashion have now been enforced all over the country on July 1.  These laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and […]
By Arun Srivastava General election results in India have always been extraordinary and have thrown new set of political leaders. This year’s polls while were a moral victory for the INDIA bloc and marked the setback to communal politics, it also threw two young leaders, Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, in public arena who exhibited […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The first short session of the 18th Lok Sabha has just ended with the third time Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving the impression once again that nothing different happened in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, he remains the same unvanquished leader of the majority party BJP like he was after the 2014 […]
By Arun Srivastava For the first time in his ten-year rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, proclaimed to be the super-leader to shape the destiny of India, wore a pitiable, visibly shaken and dejected look sitting in the front row of the treasury benches in Lok Sabha, while Rahul Gandhi, who has been assigned the constitutional […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s opposition has taken a new task in hand to restrain Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government from turning the country into a “police state”, as the later “lays foundation” for it by implementing the three new criminal laws form July 1, 2024. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has threatened, “INDIA will […]
By Nantoo Banerjee With a record number of over 360 journalists detained in jail in more than 30 countries across the world mostly on the charges of espionage, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange must thank Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his stars to get himself freed after pleading guilty to violating the US espionage law, ending […]
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The massive blaze in Kuwait which claimed the lives of 50 people, including 46 Indians, underlines the paramount need to ensure better living and working conditions for them in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Reports have it that many migrant workers in these countries, exposed to relentless heat and humidity, live […]
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