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Panaji/Margao: Restitching of alliances and new political parties entering the fray, along with some friendly fights, have turned the zilla panchayat (ZP) election battle into a hard-to-decipher scenario.With Goa Forward and Revolutionary Goans contesting the ZP polls for the first time, it will be a litmus test for the political parties ahead of bigger challenges…
The February 2026 Bangladeshi general election is no ordinary democratic exercise; it is a vote on the country’s political future and a crucial deciding point for India’s regional security. The street-led “Monsoon Revolution” of August 2024, which ended the 15-year rule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, created a political vacuum that has fundamentally altered the…
Miami voters have elected Democrat Eileen Higgins as the city’s first female mayor and the first Democrat to hold the office in nearly three decades. In Tuesday’s runoff, Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, a former city manager backed by former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.“Together, we turned the…
Miami voters have elected Democrat Eileen Higgins as the city’s first female mayor and the first Democrat to hold the office in nearly three decades. In Tuesday’s runoff, Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, a former city manager backed by former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.“Together, we turned the…
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Monday said the discussion on Vande Mataram in Parliament was timed for the approaching West Bengal assembly polls and that the govt wanted to divert attention from the problems people were facing.Participating in a discussion in Lok Sabha on 150 years of the national song, penned by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee,…
BJP fields ‘Sonia Gandhi’ in Munnar ward KOCHI: BJP has nominated a woman named Sonia Gandhi as its candidate in Kerala’s Munnar local body polls, leaving the UDF in a uniquely awkward position. The candidate, Sonia Gandhi from ward 16 of Munnar gram panchayat, was named after the Congress leader by her father, late Durai…
Kamal Haasan and Manju Warrier recently attended a session at the Hortus Art and Literature Festival in Kerala, where the actor–politician addressed questions about his political stand and his contemporary rival, actor Vijay. Kamal, the founder of the centrist party Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) and a Rajya Sabha MP, was asked about Vijay’s newly formed…
A judge in Georgia has dismissed the last pending criminal case against president Donald Trump, ending efforts to charge him for trying to overturn the 2020 election. With this, all three criminal cases filed against him before his re-election have now been taken down. Charges against his co-accused, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, were…
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi (File photo) BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi (File photo) BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi (File photo) NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday slammed comments by functionaries of governing parties in West Bengal and Jharkhand targeting the special intensive review of electoral rolls, as it accused INDIA bloc of being the biggest roadblock in ensuring…
NEW DELHI: With the state of Assam set to go to assembly polls next year, political sparring between the BJP and Congress has intensified, with both sides staking claim to a clear win in the 2026 showdown. ‘If only Assamese people vote…’: Gogoi targets BJP Speaking to reporters in Dhubri, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said…
