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Norwegians will go to the polls in autumn 2021 to elect a government for another four-year term. Since 2013, Erna Solberg and her Conservative Party (Høyre) have led the country with support from a medley of coalition partners: first, the hard-right Progress Party from 2013 onward, with the Christian Democrats and the Liberal Party (Venstre) also joining since 2018.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to get a big political bounce from the vaccination programme. But the success of vaccination, just like the failures of most of the Tory Covid-19 responses, shows that Johnson’s “free market” policies have let the virus run free, while stronger public health and welfare institutions are the cure.

The Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), does not take kindly to criticism, whether it comes from the citizens they are meant to serve, from the media, from opposition parties, or even from global celebrities.

In recent times, conducting Indian diplomacy in Bangladesh has steadily become a more ramified experience. Bangladesh’s response to live bilateral issues has undergone a subtle change in the context of its deepening ties with China. There has also occurred an easing of long term tensions between Dhaka and Islamabad. Further, Bangladesh is fast reducing its earlier reliance on India in its import trade/joint venture enterprises, a trait for which the Awami League invariably used to attract a shower of brickbats at home.

It is the 72nd day of the protests led by hundreds of farmer groups at the different borders of Delhi, from Singhu to Ghazipur. The farmers are battling the might of the Indian State that has almost cut them off from the rest of the city and the country — by layers of barricading, planting nails on the roads, cutting off water and electricity, and heavy patrolling by paramilitary forces. This is a government at war with its own people — first civil rights activists, then university students, followed by journalists and now our farmers.

The pitfalls of an existing policy often remain under the surface until it is replaced by a new one that is more pragmatic. This cannot be truer than in the case of the government’s gold policy. The foreign exchange outgo on account of high import of gold, both through formal and informal channels, has been a major consideration for the government in arriving at the duties and taxes on gold. But by hindsight, it is now clear that the high duty often ends up incentivising gold smuggling, as a result of which gold smuggling through airports and other transport terminals has in recent past gone up to unprecedented levels. At the same time, gold prices were on a steady climb. In fact, gold prices increased by 42 percent since the custom duty was increased to 12.5 percent in July 2019.

Rahul Gandhi made public his decision to step down as Congress president taking moral responsibility for the Congress’s disastrous showing in the Lok Sabha elections in May 2019.. On August 11, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) appointed Sonia Gandhi as interim president despite Rahul suggesting that someone from outside the Gandhi family should helm the party.

Fatorda, Goa: Chennaiyin ’s chances of progressing into the top four received a huge blow following their frustrating goalless draw against Bengaluru in the Hero Indian Super League at Fatorda Stadium, on Friday.

We’re in the golden age of content, and this content has nothing to do with content as in quite satisfied, or as in completely at ease, though with adequate amounts of the right content all media would sail through without a hitch. Are tweets content? Good question. The answer is almost every other story published these days comes loaded with tweets, those which take the story forward and which are pregnant with possibilities including the prospect of raising a crop of protests.

Bambolim, Goa: When Odisha face Mohun Bagan in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim on Saturday, the match will be nothing less than a final for the Bhubaneswar-based outfit.