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Nepal is being ruled by a political party which does not exist legally. Sounds paradoxical but is true. The Nepal Communist Party was born out of the merger of two communist parties – the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) led by the present prime minister K. P. Sharma Oli and the Communist Party of Nepal led by Pushpa Kumar Dahal, better known as Prachanda. The two parties merged on May 17, 2018, to form the Communist Party of Nepal and came to be the ruling party. The merger was formalized but the bitter factional fight between the two factions never ceased. For a long time the party was on the verge of a split but the split was never formalized.

Prime Minister’s calling a virtual meet with Chief Ministers on March 17 on COVID-19 has a special significance amidst new surge in infections which has registered highest single day spike in the last 85 days. The last such high level meeting was held on January 11, just before launch of the vaccination drive on January 16. It would be the eighth such high level interaction since lockdown orders of March 24, 2020.

The famous author Emma Goldman once said, "Politicians promise you heaven before elections and give you hell after." It is true that no party has ever implemented 100 percent of the manifestoes. The rate of compliance with election promises is erratic for most parties after coming to power. So what is the point of coming out with pre- election manifestoes?

All on a sudden, there has been a shift in the mood of the voters in West Bengal which is going to the eight phase polls for the state assembly beginning March 27. The BJP which entered the battle with great gusto and confidence armed with its massive financial resources, organisational muscle of RSS and unprecedented personal involvement of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister in this Mahabharata war, finds itself in a bind just ten days before the start of the polling.

Kolkata: Gokulam Kerala dropped two vital points in their quest for Hero I-League silverware as the Malabarians were held to a 1-1 draw by Real Kashmir at the VYBK Stadium here today.

New Delhi: In a significant move Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) on Monday inducted former cricket captain Kapil Dev its board member.

Given their appalling regularity these days, media layoffs have begun to take on the character of a grim ritual that follows a now all-too-familiar pattern. With great pomp, a big industry player, media baron, or venture capitalist will announce a bold new merger or acquisition, often promising to rescue or streamline a flailing venture. Within a few years, or sometimes a mere few months, this chirpy PR will suddenly give way to the language of hardheaded financial calculus, after which a spate of layoffs invariably follows.

It was an evolutionary reposition for constitutional jurisprudence in India when the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexual intercourse between consenting adults in Navtej Singh Johar vs. Union of India. In an exquisitely written judgement, the five-judge constitutional bench engaged in a sundry discussion that ranged from the sociology of stigma and conformity to the right of privacy and constitutional morality.

The initiative of AICC general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to train the party cadre before next assembly polls in 2022 has boosted the morale of party workers. As part of strengthening the party organization, Priyanka Gandhi directed UPCC president Ajai Kumar Lalloo to inaugurate two-day eastern zonal cadre training program. Significantly the two-day training program took place at Gorakhpur which is the hometown of chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Prior to the training program party completed the selection of party unit at bock level.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Success seldom goes to the timid. It goes to those who dare and act. This is a famous quote attributed to India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Well, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has chosen to dare in the selection of candidates for the crucial Assembly elections in Kerala. The million dollar question is: will the bold electoral gamble pay off? The party and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government it heads are sure it would.