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The stage is set for Iran’s farcical presidential election to be held on 28 June. The vote has been brought forward from 2025 following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month. The ultimate head of the Iranian state is the...

India’s new government has a new Cabinet which is the old Cabinet. The ministers for Home, Finance, Foreign Affairs and Defence will be the same. These four are considered the most important by the government, which classifies them as comprising the Committee on Security. And...

The political dynamics have shifted with the entry of coalition dharma, and as Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts his third term as head of the NDA government, there is hope as well as trepidation among babus about the potential changes within the ministries and departments....

Finally, light seems to be appearing at the end of the tunnel. That could be the best way to describe the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) resolution on 10 June endorsing a US-backed ceasefire proposal aiming to end Israel’s nine-month assault on Gaza. The vote...

Mohan Charan Majhi, 52, is all set to take oath as the fifteenth Chief Minister of Orissa and the first from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). After twenty-four long years, the coastal state has got a new leader as the people had voted in support...

Both bad and good news are coming from Europe. The bad news first-Right leaning parties have made significant gains in the European Parliament election, the results of which poured in on 9 June night. The good news is Europe has not yet been taken over...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, urging the Centre and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to provide a comprehensive report on the stock market plunge that occurred on 4 June, the day the results of the general elections were...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed charge for the third consecutive time in a row but not equalling the record of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as many would like us to believe. Nehru’s Congress could form the government on its own in all the...

The Prime Minister spoke to the NDA allies in Central Hall just before his swearing-in. His message was that he would remain Prime Minister for another ten years (he did not say how he knew this) but to be fair to him that was mentioned...

I n a major shake-up, right in the middle of a busy, busy election, the Central government announced key appointments at the joint secretary level, signalling a strategic shift in leadership. This bureaucratic overhaul included the empanelment of 26 IAS officers from the 1995 to...