Actor-politician and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay shared the stage with election strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday to mark the party’s first anniversary ahead of the 2026 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. Jan Suraaj party founder Prashant Kishor’s presence at the anniversary event in Tamil Nadu’s Mahabalipuram is seen as a calculated electoral strategy
“Yeh BJP toh bas humari jhuggi ko hattayegi. Humme iss baat ka darr toh hai.” (The BJP will remove our jhuggis. We are scared about this.), says Leela, a dhobi who has lived in Lodhi Colony for 45 years. “Modi has himself said that there will be no jhuggi in Delhi. The people who come
Union Government committed to implementing NEP: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan CHENNAI: As Tamil Nadu stepped up its opposition to the National Education Policy, with the ruling DMK and its allies announcing a protest on February 18, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday dismissed the state government’s opposition as “politics” and said the Centre is
In his 2018 book Republic of Caste, Anand Teltumbde described the Aam Aadmi Party as “A Political App for the Neoliberal era”. It was a telling analogy. Like a mobile application, the AAP’s political package seemed to offer a range of functionalities to its citizen consumers. The proposed functionalities centred on improving the quality of
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BEIRUT — Thousands of supporters gathered in downtown Beirut on Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination, which comes amid seismic regional political shifts. The ousting of Bashar Assad in December after 54 years of family rule in Syria marked the fall of a government long accused of
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Austria’s far-right populist Freedom Party says it has ended its attempts to form a coalition government with the conservative People’s Party, ÖVP. The announcement follows several weeks of heated negotiations and marks the second time coalition talks have failed since September’s election. The ÖVP first attempted to form a three-party coalition with the Social Democrats
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NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, about President Trump’s proposal for the US to take control of the Gaza Strip. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Even judging by the standards that he set during his time on the National stage, President Donald Trump’s statement this past week that
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RATING – ⭐ ⭐ 2/5* THANDEL REVIEW MOVIE TALKIES: Chandoo Mondeti’s Thandel is actually a messy and confusing affair because it fails to establish its own identity. The film becomes clueless in determining its motive—whether to be a romantic drama, a patriotic narrative, a thriller, or a political-social commentary. The writing is at fault, as
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was, for a large part of the campaign ahead of the February 5 Delhi Assembly election, cautious and measured in his comments. In this crucial election, described as a do-or-die battle for both Kejriwal and his party, the AAP leader even appeared to
RATING – ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5* Conclave Review Movie Talkies: Edward Berger directs a political thriller set at the papal conclave. Now, what is the papal conclave? The papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to elect the Bishop of Rome, aka the Pope, which is somewhat similar to what we call an
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