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The Indian general elections continue. To accommodate the 800+ million eligible voters, the election has been divided into seven phases. Thus far, three have been completed which account for 303 out of 543 seats up ...
This week India will go to polls in the world’s largest-ever democratic exercise which consists of close to 850 million eligible voters across the country including 130 million first time voters. To accommodate such a ...
A Primer on the Indonesian Elections In a rematch of the 2014 elections, Indonesia’s incumbent president Joko Widodo is running neck and neck with challenger Prabowo Subianto. The elections are expected to be held on ...
Polls Apart: Elections in North Korea and India North Korea went to the polls this Sunday for an election whose outcome is already well-known. This was an election to the Supreme People’s Assembly, the rubberstamp ...
I After tensions arose on the Kashmir border, forthcoming Indian elections will not be fought as India’s first-ever ‘National Security elections’, rathe than on the traditional ground of economic issues. For the ruling Bharatya Janata Party ...
This past week’s visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamad Bin Sultan to India and Pakistan will bring a new dimension to the politics of the South Asia region. This was the first visit for the Prince ...
TFreedom House in its annual report on political rights and civil liberties titled ‘Freedom in the World’ noted the 13th year of consecutive decline of freedom around the world. The report notes that this rollback of ...
Last week, the two non-governmental members of the National Statistic Commission of India resigned from their positions after the BJP led government allegedly has not published a report on jobs in the country for over ...
Rising Inequality in the World: The World Economic Forum in Davos kicked off in January. The annual meeting is a conference which attracts individuals from all around the world including heads of states, business leaders ...
On December 30, Bangladesh went to the polls with the outcome certain to alter domestic politics. In the elections, Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibar Rahman, won her third consecutive term ...
