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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.

Germany, the biggest economic power of the Western nations in Europe was plunged in a major political crisis as the shaky three party coalition led by the Chancellor Olaf Scholz of SPD became a minority in the Parliament on Wednesday night after the partner Free Democratic Party withdrew its support to the Scholz government.

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.

On November 5 late night, even before the presidential election results gave Donald Trump a majority of 270, former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro wrote an ecstatic message in X the former Twitter congratulating his mentor on his magnificent win saying this will have a big impact on Latin American politics. Bolsonaro is known in Latin America as the Trump of that region as he follows all his manners. He opposed vaccines and social distance measures during Covid period as a president costing thousands of lives in Brazil during the pandemic.

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.

WASHINGTON DC: In the wake of the sweeping victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections on November 5, all the pundits in the corporate media are pitching their explanations for what happened. There will be an endless number of hot takes and political spin stories proffered in the coming days.

LONDON: Donald Trump’s victory in the US will embolden the hard right everywhere — including in Britain. It underlines the ongoing crisis of liberal centrism, which applies well beyond the United States and has its roots in the long-term decline in working-class living standards across the Western world.

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.