In most parts of the world, red is the colour of revolution — socialism, labour movements, and left-wing politics. From the Bolshevik flag to Britain’s Labour rose, red has long been the hue of the Left. Yet in the United States, it’s the conservative Republican Party that’s bathed in crimson. How did that happen? The […]
The billboard is the latest escalation in an increasingly bitter public feud between Netanyahu and Mamdani Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has stepped up its attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, placing his image alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on […]
Ex-Met officer jailed seven years for raping fellow police officer. A former Metropolitan Police officer has been sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a fellow officer after a New Year’s eve party in London.Rupert Edwards, 33, was convicted of raping the woman after accompanying her to her home in the early hours of […]
Greek anti-terrorist police on Friday arrested three people over a series of firebomb attacks targeting politicians from the governing New Democracy party. The coordinated attacks, carried out on July 1, included a deadly explosion in the northern city of Thessaloniki that killed the mother of a parliamentary candidate, authorities said.The predawn attacks targeted the homes […]
Abhijeet Dipke (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) laid out its next course of action, warning that it will launch fresh protests across the country if union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan is not removed from office or does not resign within the next seven days.The announcement comes after hundreds of students, young professionals […]
CJP’s protest should not go off track, feel friends and acquaintances of its founder Dipke Ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s proposed protest in Delhi on June 6, party founder Abhijeet Dipke’s friends and acquaintances here feel the agitation called by him is for a serious cause and it should not go off track. […]
South Korea’s ruling party wins most races in local elections but loses the crucial Seoul contest (Image source: AP) South Korea’s ruling liberal party won a majority of races in Wednesday’s local elections but lost the crucial Seoul mayoral contest in a setback to efforts to give President Lee Jae Myung a firmer political mandate.Lee’s […]
NEW DELHI: After Nepal PM Balendra Shah sought UK’s intervention in the India-Nepal border dispute, the Indian govt Tuesday strongly rejected any third-party mediation on what it described as a bilateral issue. Speaking in Parliament on Sunday, Shah had said London should take an interest in resolving the dispute as it originated during the times […]
Photo credit: Agencies NAXXAR: Malta’s Labour party won an unprecedented fourth term Sunday in a victory for outgoing prime minister Robert Abela, who had called a snap election in light of geopolitical uncertainties.Fireworks were set off across the tiny Mediterranean island and ecstatic Labour supporters dressed in the party’s red chanted “four times!” after officials […]
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Kalyan Banerjee NEW DELHI: Former Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Thursday lodged a formal complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against party MP and current chief whip Kalyan Banerjee, alleging that he had ‘repeatedly verbally abused’ her inside Parliament.“I seek your permission to lodge a formal complain to […]
