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Only three weeks are left for the holding of the historic Presidential elections in Brazil on October 2 this year but the right wing President Jair Bolsonaro who is contesting the elections again challenging the opinion poll favourite Workers Party candidate former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, is already telling his supporters that the October 2 elections will getting to be rigged and he is not giving up power if he loses.

The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress was in the “land of Kamaraj” when Rahul Gandhi met two people, a teenage girl of about “12/14”, and a Catholic “father” of no mean controversies. If the girl’s curiosity was a welcome diversion for Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader’s curiosity was fodder for the Catholic father to brew hate.

The Supreme Court has kept its word in terms of protecting the rights of undertrials by granting bail to journalist Siddique Kappan, who has spent over two years in UP jails without trial in connection with the Hathras conspiracy case.

Chennai: Bengaluru schoolboy Shreyas Hareesh (Rockers Racing) raced to lights-to-flag victory, his first, in the Novice (Stock 165cc) category, National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the Madras International Circuit, here on Saturday.

Jammu: Yuvraj Sandhu (Chandigarh) carded a steady one-under 71 in the last round and with a total of total 13-under 275 won the J&K Open at the Jammu Tawi Golf Course here on Saturday.

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in India may soon turn into new battlefield to be fought between the Union Government and the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU). If the Union Government goes ahead with its privatisation move, the UFBU have threatened for longer strike action, a scenario that will spell disaster for the entire financial system of the country, at a time when a stronger, equitable, and sustainable financial system is required to provide financial access to all.

BERLIN: The death of Mikhail Gorbachev on August 30 brought discussion of the collapse of Soviet socialism back to the fore—especially as the neoliberal world order it ushered in is crumbling around us. Just a couple of days before the last leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s death, I sat with the last leader of East Germany’s ruling Socialist Unity Party (SED), Egon Krenz, a speaker at one of the multiple political talks and rallies that, with music, food, and drink, make up the Unsere Zeit press festival annually in Germany.

In the United States former presidents continue to be ‘President’ for the rest of their lives. And so, ‘President Trump’ gave an interview to NDTV and but for the fact that seven seas separated India from the United States, Trump wouldn’t have agreed to the interview for the simple reason that within earshot Trump would have known years ago that of the hundreds of Indian TV media, NDTV comes the nearest to aping CNN in its reportage philosophy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised the people of India of having good days, is himself passing through his worst days. Bizarre are the ways in which the Income Tax Department has searched this week the premises of three leading bodies, Centre for Policy Research (CPR), OxFam India and the Independent and Public Spirited Media Foundation. The searches were aimed at coercing the managements of these independent bodies to toe the official line of the saffrons. The Sangh close media portals have been campaigning for long against these three bodies saying their reports are biased against the BJP.

The estimates of Gross Domestic Product for the April-June quarter released by the government of India on August 31 paint a dismal picture of the Indian economy. Since the GDP in real terms (at 2011-12 prices) shows an increase of 13.5 per cent over the first quarter GDP a year ago, and since 13.5 per cent appears an impressive figure, official spokespersons have been putting a cheerful gloss over it. But a closer look reveals an economy getting further bogged down in a state of stagnation.