With West Bengal’s two-phase and high voltage Assembly election having come to a close, the inevitable spectacle of exit polls has once again taken centre stage. Their verdicts, as usual, are anything but unanimous. Some forecast a sweeping victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party, others a decisive return for the Trinamool Congress, while a […]
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West Bengal has once again done what it does best— vote in overwhelming numbers. The first phase of the high-voltage Assembly elections has recorded an extraordinary turnout, brushing past 93 per cent across 152 constituencies and touching an astonishing 96.6 percent in pockets. In a state where political participation […]
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Fanatics may be lapping up the deletion of 91 lakh voters in West Bengal in the name of SIR, with the hope that it would ensure electoral triumph of the Saffron Brigade, following some simple arithmetics, but they tend to forget that one of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence goes like this: It is […]
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In an explosive interview to one of Bangladesh’s leading daily newspapers President Md. Sahabuddin said he was kept captive in presidential palace for one and half year more by Chief Executive of Interim Government Md. Yunus. Answering to question President said “there are many conspiracies going on with me.There have been many attempts to […]
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In a surprise move newly elected Prime Minister Tareq Rahaman appointed technocrat Dr. Khalilur Rahaman as Foreign Minister of Bangladesh. He was National Security Advisor of out going Interim Government led by Prof. Muhummad Yunus. Another surprise is that inducting highly controversial Dr. Nasimul Gani as cabinet secretary just before the swearing in. He […]
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New Delhi: Republic Day marks a defining milestone in India’s national journey. It marks the day the Constitution of India came into force on 26th January 1950, formally establishing the country as a ‘Sovereign Democratic Republic’. While independence on 15th August 1947 ended colonial rule, it was the adoption of the Constitution that completed […]
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The sudden Enforcement Directorate onslaught on Trinamool Congress’s political and election strategist, I-PAC, and its helmsman Prateek Jain—allegedly in connection with a seven-year-old case—has opened a Pandora’s box of sorts. It has raised far more questions than it has answered, questions that have only multiplied after West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo Mamata […]
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Bangladesh is facing one of the most serious challenges to press freedom in its modern history. Over the past year, journalists and media organisations across the country have been subjected to escalating violence, legal intimidation, and targeted attacks on news infrastructure. What began as assaults on individual reporters has evolved into coordinated attacks […]
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It is now more than 15 months former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina has taken shelter in India. India is not new for her staying. After assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman, her father, Sheikh Hasina was given shelter by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. From 1975 […]
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In several states across India, twelve in total, including West Bengal the Election Commission has introduced the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Although projected as a special revision of electoral rolls, the process has triggered serious concerns regarding its legal foundation, ground-level execution and wider political consequences.To understand the origins of SIR, one must turn […]
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