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The controversial circumstances surrounding the appointment of the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) have given rise to a sense of distrust between the Congress party and the Election Commission, setting the stage for a difficult and fraught relationship. The tension was further exacerbated when Rahul Gandhi publicly expressed his dissent, effectively institutionalizing this mistrust. While he refrained from making direct personal attacks on the appointee, his concerns about the selection process itself have created an unavoidable rift. This dynamic between a major political party and an institution responsible for conducting free and fair elections threatens to undermine democratic processes and public confidence.

Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has already achieved a very big objective of his diplomacy — isolating Europe from the United States. Now with the US President’s latest statement from his clubhouse, Donald Trump seems to have dumped the traditional diplomatic tie up between Western Europe and America.

With Union Government of India making the appointments of the Chief Election Commissioner of India, and an Election Commissioner under the new law of 2023, while the law itself is pending adjudication in the Supreme Court of India, people’s hopes and fears about independence of Election Commission of India running high.

For decades, U.S. alliances have been the backbone of global stability, fostering economic cooperation and collective security. NATO, economic partnerships with European and Asian allies, and engagement in international organizations have cemented America’s leadership in world affairs. However, under Trump’s second term Presidency, these traditional alliances came under significant strain. His "America First" approach represented a dramatic departure from the multilateralism that had defined U.S. foreign policy for decades, favouring a more unilateral and transactional approach.

It isn't funny, the Supreme Court choosing to "slam" Ranveer Allahbadia and simultaneously giving him relief against more FIRs. This interim protection, however, comes even as the bench hinted at more trouble for Allahbadia’s incestuous thoughts. For Ranveer Allahbadia, the future looks bleak unless his parents come to his rescue hoping he doesn’t jump into their bed.

DAMASCUS: As the smoke settles on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and its replacement by Islamist leadership under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), it is clear that Turkey’s far-right governing bloc has emerged from the tumult strong and emboldened. What is less clear is whether this will mean that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be able to project influence across the region without constraint.

LONDON: Donald Trump’s demand for a $500 billion “payback deal” forcing Ukraine to hand over control of its natural resources has been exposed by the Telegraph.

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War in 1945, Europe, especially Western Europe is in disarray, as their transatlantic ally for eight decades, the United States, is refusing to guarantee the security of the European nations belonging to the NATO under the new Trump doctrine. Earlier, there were differences between the U.S. and the European nations on a number of issues, but those never had such wider dimension impacting the geopolitics of the continent just as it is doing in 2025.

The data that PM Narendra Modi government has been churning out since 2014 have always been a suspect. Now, by no less a person than PM Narendra Modi’s own Economic Advisor has indicated that many of the data earlier produced even under the Modi regime were “influenced” while chiefly targeting the Congress for that, as PM Narendra Modi and BJP does. He indirectly and unwittingly contradicts Modi government’s claim on reliability of their high-quality data sets, giving rise to the question – Are Modi government’s data reliable? It is a question whose answer India needs.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat returned to Nagpur a disappointed patriarch. His ten day mission to Bengal to find a "credible and charismatic face" who could throw Mamata Banerjee out of power and install a saffron government after 2026 state assembly polls, could not be accomplished. Known as a man of few words, he did not express his displeasure openly but he was sure that the saffron ecosystem with the present leaders leading the pack would not succeed in catching the imagination of the people of the state and provide an alternate government.