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Diabetic Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is feasting on mangoes is an Enforcement Directorate discovery. Call it investigation. The ED has the reputation of a high rate of conviction and Kejriwal carries high levels of blood sugar. The Enforcement Directorate has been snooping into Kejriwal's tiffin box and a special judge is now hearing the case. Not the money laundering charge, but the culinary outrage being linked to Delhi's mango-man.

In a historic development in Chile, a young Communist Party Deputy Karol Cariola was elected as the new President of the 155 member chamber of deputies on Monday after winning by 76 to 75 votes in a gruelling fight between the combined Left and the Right. The right wing parties have a majority in the chamber with 78 members as against 76 of the left wing coalition headed by the Marxist president Gabriel Boric, but in the final voting, the Left nominee won by just one vote.

On February 14 this year, Washington D.C. was filled with discussions about a potential Russian space weapon. Mike Turner, who leads the House Intelligence Committee, called on the White House to release information about this weapon, describing it as a significant threat to national security. Reports from U.S. media suggest it involves a Russian nuclear system related to space, which hasn't been deployed yet, but could pose a risk to U.S. and allied satellites.

LONDON: Britain is drifting towards a general election later this year that is increasingly resembling a slow bicycle race. Opinion Poll released on April 18 shows satisfaction with both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer falling — both have far more voters dissatisfied with them than happy. This is scarcely surprising. Britain’s social problems are piling up and the country is drifting into escalating international conflict, yet neither offers any solutions.

New Delhi: Just three months before the start of quardengular sporting extravaganza, Indian athletics suffered a big blow with ace long jumper Murali Sreeshankar ruling himself out for the entire season, including the Paris Olympics, after sustaining a knee injury during training.

New Delhi: Seventeen Indian wrestlers led by Vinesh Phogat and Aman Sehrawat will be on the hunt for quotas at the Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualifiers for Paris which starts in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from Friday.

The 18th Lok Sabha elections in India begin on April 19 with polling in 102 constituencies in the first phase. The seven phase polls covering 90 crore voters out of around 142 crore total population of the country, will end on June 1 after polling is over in 543 Lok Sabha constituencies. The results will be declared on June 4 after which it will be clear whether the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is heading the campaign on behalf of the ruling BJP as also the NDA, will be getting his third consecutive term after getting majority in the new Lok Sabha.

In the middle of campaign for second phase of Lok Sabha election 2024 scheduled for April 26, a considerable rise in political heat is felt in 13 states where 87 Lok Sabha constituencies are going to poll. The reason being, higher stake for BJP due to INDIA bloc’s mounting challenge to their candidates in almost all constituencies. The comparative ease of PM Narendra Modi during the first phase of election campaign, seems to have already disappeared.

With the elections process already on, health is serious issue to be taken up by the political parties. Health has been an issue of serious concern to the people because as per government’s own admission over 6 crore people are pushed to poverty because of out of pocket expenditure on health. The health activists have been demanding from the state to own its responsibility to ensure health for all. It is therefore important that the political parties give priority to the concept of universal healthcare in their agenda so that health needs of each citizen are fulfilled without any discrepancy based on religion, caste, creed, gender or economic status. It is therefore pertinent that the government has to directly intervene in making policies which fulfil people’s needs for health. The political parties should commit to make health as a fundamental right and promise to increase the spending on the healthcare to 6% of the GDP.

There is no bar on the Prime Minister to mislead. Five days ago, while accusing the INDIA bloc of nursing a “Mughal mindset”, Narendra Modi refuted the Opposition assertion that the Ayodhya Ram Mandir was a “poll plank” for the BJP. There was no way to check if he was telling the truth. Of course, the newly consecrated Ayodhya Ram Mandir is a cherished “poll plank” of the BJP and anybody who refutes this is a barefaced contradiction.