politics

A turnout of 93.19% is hard to ignore. In the first phase of West Bengal’s assembly elections, covering 152 constituencies, 3.35 crore out of 3.61 crore registered voters cast their ballots. That is the highest… Source link

Mamata manages to not get tainted by excesses of Trinamool’s strongmen, pitching herself as both a provider and a ‘victim’. So, her supporters can vote for her while dissing her party First phase of one… Source link

Unconditional cash transfers just before elections may help fight anti-incumbency, but it bleeds the economy and has limited long-term gains in real welfare of the people A new pattern of freebie disbursement has spread its… Source link

Tamils, who vote today, are used to a political culture that sees welfare as a right (urimai), not benefaction. DMK understands that well. But, its governance deficit is what gives AIADMK an opening. Problem? It’s… Source link

I don’t write about politics. Not the daily noise of it. Not the scorekeeping. Not the endless churn of statements and counter-statements. I write when something shifts… Like when politics stops performing for a second… Source link

Whether young Tamilians’ frenzy over Vijay will translate into votes isn’t the point. His rallies are a mirror to TN’s masculinity crisis. Crowds he’s drawing are proof that male-dominated parties just aren’t listening Joseph Vijay… Source link

Merely because the People’s Republic of China has been peripheral to the conflict in the Gulf should not be taken to mean that it does not have the capacity to get involved. Just as the… Source link

The recent resolution in the House of Representatives of the United States seeking formal American recognition of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide, while calling for accountability for those responsible, marks a significant shift in global understanding… Source link

The key question in the 2026 Kerala assembly election is whether the state will return to its predictable cycle of power alternation, or whether voters will make history by electing the incumbent for a third… Source link

With DMK facing the pressures of incumbency and TVK banking on star power, AIADMK under Edappadi K. Palaniswami positions itself as the organisational dark horse in a fragmented race. Tamil Nadu’s 2026 Assembly election is… Source link