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Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency and a brutal military crackdown for decades. However, the vast and resource-rich province has witnessed a surge in deadly attacks in recent times.

Campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2024 has brought India’s faultlines in sharp focus – which included the falling credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in ensuring free and fair election, the apparent threat to democracy and the Constitution, widening chasm between the religious majority and minorities, unprecedented level of unemployment, and ever rising inequality in the society. It is in sharp contrast to the dominant issue of national security during the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign that had come into centre stage just after the Pulwama attack on security forces in February, which relegated all other burning issues, including high unemployment and the devastating demonetisation impact on the livelihood, in the rear.

Two Assamese defend Prime Minister Narendra Modi as often as they invent a chance. One of them is Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The other, a journalist-turned-media baron who never tires of praising the Prime Minister. Both these gentlemen are ever ready to do a full-stretch 'sashtang-pranam' at the Prime Minister’s feet at the drop of a hint from the Prime Minister’s aides. Of the two, CM Biswa Sarma takes the cake, primarily because of his funny Guwahati accent.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Opposition parties’ latest attempt to discredit the Left Democratic Front (LDF) has come to grief, causing acute embarrassment to them as usual.

An object lesson in how fascistic outfits operate is provided by the BJP’s attitude towards an inheritance tax. The fact that there has been an immense increase in income and wealth inequality in the country during the neoliberal era is well-known. Indeed this is not a phenomenon confined to India alone; it is an international phenomenon which has been much discussed even in high-bourgeois circles for quite some time. At the World Economic Forum for instance the need for taking some countervailing measures has been repeatedly mentioned.

LONDON: With an election campaign underway for July 4 polling,, Keir Starmer rammed through the selection of Praful Nargund, a private health care entrepreneur, as the Labour candidate to run against Starmer’s predecessor Jeremy Corbyn in the London constituency of Islington North.

As the world is on a boil with wars raging between Russia and Ukraine and the Israeli onslaught on Palestinians, world leaders and intellectuals are hard-pressed to comprehend and rationalize the gruesome developments.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 campaign ended on Thursday May 30, but after raising unprecedented level of political dust which will take much longer time beyond its result on June 4 to settle. Irrespective of who or which political party or alliance wins, people will continue to suffer from the “We and They” syndrome, a condition caused by the political dust, both horizontally and vertically. It may cause rise of political violence or violent incidents of political nature which should cause concern to the citizens.

As the last phase of polling is about to be completed, there is no doubt that the Constitution of India and its protection has been one of the main issues in the Lok Sabha election. Right from the beginning, the leaders of the INDIA bloc of parties had pitched the defence of the constitution as a central theme in their election platform.

India is working to revive the long-delayed Chabahar port project in Iran. On May 13, India Ports Global Limited (IPGL) and Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization signed a 10-year agreement. This deal allows India to develop and operate the Chabahar port. IPGL will invest around $120 million, with an additional $250 million in financing, making the total value of the contract $370 million.