Decoding Bangladesh Politics Two Months After Sheikh Hasina’s Ouster

By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh has just completed two months after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina Wazed from power on August 5 following the mass upsurge led by the students of Anti-Discrimination Front, popularly known as anti Quota movement. The interim Government led by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus took oath on August 8 with […]

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaigns for all participating political parties in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Vidhan Sabha election has unquestionably centred round the chief issue – restoration of the abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India and the lost statehood of this Union Territory. The electoral battle has been turning into a […]
By Anjan Roy The Chinese economy is seeing deflation —that is, prices are really falling in real time— for 23 months straight. This has really raised the concerns of the Chinese political bosses which was reflected in the central bank move on Tuesday. The central bank cut its policy interest rates by the most ever […]
By P. Sudhir Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janata Vimukti Perumana (JVP) and the National Peoples’ Power (an alliance of Left and progressive parties) won the presidential elections held on September 21 in Sri Lanka. He polled 57,40,179 votes (42.3 per cent) in these elections, which is a significant increase from the 4,18,553 votes […]

By Sushil Kutty It is Atishi and it will be Atishi who will be the next Delhi Chief Minister, to succeed Arvind Kejriwal. The ‘Marlena’ surname she dropped in 2019 when contesting the Lok Sabha election from East Delhi. Point to note, however, is Atishi will be Chief Minister only till the next assembly elections, […]

By Subrata Majumder Narendra Modi Government is going hot with China on diplomacy through remarks by the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar, but at the same time, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is soft on the issue of allowing Chinese investment in India. The economic survey of 2023-24 presented before this year’s budget underlines […]


By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The US Presidential election is scheduled for 5 November 2024 while the Canadian elections to elect a new Prime Minister is expected to take place in October 2025. After Kamala Harris became Democratic Party nominee for the President in the upcoming election, Republican Party’s Donald Trump, who was seen as a […]
By Satyaki Chakraborty Massive global protests in the last four days of September in all the major cities of the world including New York, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and finally Tel Aviv against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rigid attitude to the ceasefire proposal to end the Gaza war, have led to some positive reaction […]

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers have been demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP), but the Centre has announced 7 new big schemes for farm sector worth Rs14,000 crore on September 2. Modi government said that the schemes intended for farmers welfare, but farmers have been saying that their well-being depend on the legally […]
By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership has imparted a new dimension to its protracted battle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by extending support to caste census at the three day conclave of RSS organisations that ended in Kerala on September 2. With deepening existential crisis and unable to find a viable political device to combat […]

By K R Sudhaman Himalayan states that share borders with neighboring countries of China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of Myanmar have faced tardy development since independence. This is partly because of difficult terrain and ecological fragility. Backwardness too is a factor. The terrain is hilly but most of the states are […]