The gun attack that injured Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, may have created a wave of sympathy and added to his burgeoning popularity. Fact check: Old pictures falsely linked to gun attack on Imran Khan While averting the ultimate calamity that has befallen several civilian Pakistani leaders before him, Mr. Khan is still hoping to make history by successfully …
Rebellions are not new to the Shiv Sena. Style of leadership The first complaint of rebel Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde’s camp is the inaccessibility of Uddhav Thackeray as the Maharashtra Chief Minister. In terms of ideology In the aftermath of the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Mr. Thackeray probably realised the emergence of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister as …
Krishnadas, a petty sweet vendor at Erimayoor, Palakkad, is a lost man. His hopes of moving into a secure house from the tin-shed house, which shelters his four-member family, withered as the application for reclaiming the 10-cent paddy-wetland which the government had allotted him for setting up a house was rejected citing the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland …
The judgment by contemporary writers of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi ’s leadership is almost uniformly harsh and unforgiving. These challenges are more apparent after the 2019 debacle in the general election and the leadership vacuum following Mr. Gandhi’s resignation as president and the party’s abject failure to elect a president to replace him. Even though there is no perceptible effort …