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KOLKATA: Elephant count in India is in doubt. Reliable population estimation of these huge land mammal is not easy as it is often in camouflage or on the move. The government read the Union ministry of environment and forests have shelved the latest census count of the jumbos. It shows the conservation efforts in poor light.

‘The Elections That Surprised India’ is a book authored by a journalist who met Mahayuti minister Chaggan Bhujbal in a Nashik hotel in mid-2023 when the Nationalist Congress Party, of which Chaggan Bhujbal was a member, was still one whole and Bhujbal was out on bail after spending time behind bars in a money-laundering case lodged against him by the Enforcement Directorate.

Left movement history in West Bengal is traversing a new trajectory at Naihati assembly by-election as for the first time a CPI(M-L) Liberation candidate is contesting with the support of Left Front. But the fact remains Trinamool Congress candidate, Sanat Dey and BJP nominee Rupak Mitra are the principal contestants of this bypoll though the situation is symptomatic of emergence of greater left unity in the days to come.

Never before, an American presidential election evoked such widespread interest and concern across the world. This is because the presumptive president has given rise to fears and concerns about America’s policies which do not promise to follow the scripted lines. There is a sense of uncertainty all the way in the power circles in Beijing to the NATO headquarters in Europe and to the Middle East capitals.

RANCHI: Outfits of social activists in Jharkhand have been active in countering the highly divisive campaigns by Bharatiya Janata Party leaders for the impending Assembly elections as the partners of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led coalition lagged behind the BJP-led Opposition in concluding seat-sharing deals for the 81-member House and selection of candidates. BJP was able to launch its campaign almost two weeks back and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already addressed meetings in two places. But, the ruling side has just managed to release its composite manifesto. Although the first of the two-phase election is scheduled for November 13, it is yet to start its campaign on a serious note.

It's happening and happening at a hare's pace — Gazwa-e-Hind Vs. Baghwa-e-Hind. The battle is for India's real-estate. The protagonists are the Waqf Board and the BJP-led Government of India, the battle spurred to significant pace by the hurry with which the Waqf Board (Amendment) Bill, 2024 is being pushed through in Parliament and the panic with which the Waqf Board is laying claim to as many Waqf property as it is possible in the time given.

Belying predictions of pollsters that the US Presidential race is ending in a dead heat, Donald Trump has won a decisive victory, getting 312 of the 538 Electoral College votes and outstripping Kamala Harris in the popular vote by polling 51 per cent. Despite the liberal media’s favourable projection of the Kamala Harris campaign, it was clear to independent observers that Trump was gaining ground, particularly in the last one month, and his inflammatory rhetoric on immigration and rising crime and populist rants against the “elites” were evoking a good response among different sections of the voters. Popular discontent against the Biden administration for the rising cost of living and price rise also helped Trump.

A video doing the rounds of social media features Donald Trump and the 47th President-elect of the United States is heard saying, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a nice guy but threaten India and he's a killer, I am telling you that." Modi bhakts have picked it up and they are all over the Internet.

BHOPAL: While Congress and BJP are engaged in a bitter electoral fight in two Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh, both parties are finding it difficult to explain inconvenient questions raised by their two powerful leaders. Laxman Singh, former M.P. and MLA has publicly said that Congress is not a private company. Laxman Singh, happens to be younger brother of Digvijay Singh. He has criticised the leadership over the manner in which party executive has been constituted without consultation, party president acted as if he is a managing director of a company.

It is as though the most controversial, at times even messy, part of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has been reserved for the last few days of his tenure. The revelation about his prayer to the deity to help the Supreme Court come up with a solution in the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute has had its political undertones as the deity was in a way a party to the dispute. But luckily, the claim did not lead to any clumsy results, although it may have created some distrust in the minds of the aggrieved parties. The invitation to prime minister Narendra Modi for the CJI’s private Ganesh puja also had its share of doubts.