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Italy’s general election promises victory for the right-wing alliance — thanks in part to an electoral system that everyone criticizes but no one has sought to change. The current law gives a huge advantage to parties who run in coalitions, who can win a large majority of seats even on well under 50 percent of the vote. Ahead of the September 25 election, the right-wing parties have overcome their divisions to make such an alliance: Giorgia Meloni’s Fratellid’ Italia, Matteo Salvini’s Lega, and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia will stand united, whereas their center-left rivals will not. Polls suggest that for the first time the election’s main winner will be the most radical right-wing force in Parliament: Meloni’s party, the heir to postwar neofascism.

‘Iconoclastic filmmaker dead’ read the headline, and people reckoned rightly that it must be about the death of French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, whose reputation as an "image destroyer" was an established fact long before he called it a day. Veneration of anybody and anything was always in short supply when Luc Godard was among the living.

The cat is out of the bag. It is no more a secret that the week old indiscriminate firing by four criminals in Begusarai of Bihar was planned by close aides of a local BJP leader. Only a couple of days back, a Congress leader came out with the revelation that the firing was restored to by the leader of the criminals said to be close to a BJP leader. This was enacted with the, primary aim to create panic and impression amongst the people of the state hat the proverbial Jungle Raj, the only feature of Lalu Yadav’s rule has returned back to the state.

Surat: The refurbished and decked up Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay (PDDU) Indoor Stadium in the heart of the city is all set to host National Games marquee table tennis tournament from Tuesday.

Kolkata: Scoring a goal in each half Bengaluru FC (BFC) piped spirited Mumbai City FC (MCFC) 2-1 to win their first Durand Cup, at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) here on Sunday.

Jaipur: Mhow based Om Prakash Chouhan piped favourite Abhijit Singh Chadha by a one-shot to claim his seventh title as he won the Jaipur Open at the Rambagh Golf Club here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Shane Bond on Saturday was appointed Head Coach for MI Emirates, in addition to his current role as bowling coach of Mumbai Indians.

What would have happened if Germany and Japan would have succeeded in defeating allied powers in the Second World War? In this context a remark by U Nu, the then Prime Minister of Burma was very significant.

Labour force in Pakistan confronts a crisis of existence. Working people have been on the brink of aggravated unemployment following the Coronavirus pandemic. In mid-2021, the awkward rise of job losses, aside from joblessness, in the country as a sequel to COVID-19 spread, reflected in a rise in homelessness and starvation. The pandemic which spread across the globe like a wildfire hit the labour force in impoverished nations including Pakistan (as in India too), leaving many wage-labourers unable to make ends meet. There were widespread dismissals.

In West Bengal, the controversy over how many farmers have committed suicide in recent times is a settled issue. Despite strenuous efforts made by the state Government of late that no distressed farmer ever killed himself during the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) tenure, it is common knowledge that such claims fly in the face of established facts.