ANALYSIS GOVERNMENT Far more Bills were sent to select committees for review under the two UPA regimes headed by Manmohan Singh. The Wire Analysis GOVERNMENT New Delhi: On September 22, eight opposition MPs of the Rajya Sabha spent the night by the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the lawns of parliament, the country’s highest law-making body. […]
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) – Ignoring calls for an end to his 26-year grip on power, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a sixth term on Wednesday after an election that the opposition and several foreign governments say was rigged. The ceremony would normally have been publicised as a major state occasion […]
By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday he has secured a ‘formidable’ majority from lawmakers to oust Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and form a new government, heralding a fresh bout of political drama in the Southeast Asian country. The power struggle comes at a difficult time for the […]
“You love your president and your president gets honored,” Trump told the crowd in North Carolina. By Mary Papenfuss President Donald Trump falsely declared at a North Carolina rally Saturday that he and his supporters are being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump was nominated for the prize by a far-right Norwegian politician — but it’s highly unlikely […]
Eight opposition MPs including Derek O’Brien, Sanjay Singh, Rajeev Satav and KK Ragesh were suspend for their conduct in Parliament on Sunday. By Rohini Chatterji The eight Rajya Sabha MPs including Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Sanjay singh, Congress’s Rajeev Satav and CPM’s KK Ragesh, who were suspended for alleged misconduct, are now […]
REPORTAGE POLITICS More than 30 such websites and channels have emerged since 2018, making this another set of elections that could be won by social media. Himadri Ghosh MEDIA POLITICS Kolkata: As political parties in West Bengal gear up for the 2021 assembly election, more than 30 propaganda-spewing websites and video channels have emerged, all camouflaged […]
Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Áñez has quit the presidential election due on 18 October. She said she did not want to split the vote and see the return to office of former President Evo Morales’ Mas socialist party. Mas candidate Luis Arce is leading in opinion polls, with Ms Áñez trailing in fourth place. Ms […]
President Trump calls for “much higher numbers” in coronavirus relief spending. By Arthur Delaney Matt Fuller, HuffPost US WASHINGTON ― As Donald Trump’s stopgap partial replacement for expanded unemployment benefits runs dry in several states, Congress and the president feuded Wednesday over a coronavirus relief package that appears to be going nowhere. Trump called Democrats “heartless” in a tweet and said […]
Japan’s governing party has elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, meaning he is almost certain to become the country’s next prime minister. Last month Mr Abe announced his resignation due to health reasons. Mr Suga, 71, serves as chief cabinet secretary in the current administration and was widely expected to […]
Yechury has come under the police scanner in an investigation that has aimed to draw direct links between peaceful CAA protesters and rioters. The Wire Staff New Delhi: General secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury hit out at the Delhi police’s investigation into the February riots, in which several students and […]
