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She was running with her all three children when they shot at her. The pain was unbearable as she fell. Arsonists saw her and set her on fire. Zosangkim, a 31-year old mother was turned into ashes. It was November 7, the day when the great October revolution had taken place. It was a promise that the suffering would end. But even after more than a century, change is yet to come.

Everybody in the saffron ecosystem supports Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's unity call 'Batenge toh katenge' for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections as well as for the Uttar Pradesh bypolls. The RSS picked it up, BJP spokespersons trotted it out on television news channels and BJP supporters and BJP workers adopted it, everybody except Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has never once spoken aloud 'Batenge toh katenge.'

RANCHI: Hogging the limelight in the Jharkhand Assembly elections this time round are the women voters the sheer number of whom has compelled the two main contending coalitions the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led ruling side and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Opposition – to be generous in offering cash assistance and other incentives. The all-out bid for the crucial women vote begins tomorrow — Wednesday, November 13 – when voting for the first phase covering 43 constituencies in the House of 81 members takes place.

At the end of election campaign for the first phase of Vidhan Sabha Election in Jharkhand scheduled to be held on November 13, 2024 for 43 of 81-member Vidhan Sabha, INDIA bloc led by JMM seems to have an edge over BJP led NDA. Threefold identity politics – Jharkhandi vs non-Jharkhandi, Adivasi vs Outsiders, and Hindu vs Muslim – has emerged as the most influential issues that are likely to impact election outcome.

With the Winter Session of Parliament due to begin its session on November 25, there is mounting panic in secular parties and in the Muslim community, which never votes for the BJP. Today, 78 years after India’s independence, Muslims are afraid they’re losing their special status and it galls them no end. It makes them feel unwanted, it angers them that the secular parties aren’t able to defeat the "communal" BJP and send Prime Minister Narendra Modi packing.

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.