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Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, wins the New York City mayoral race
New York, November 4 – Zohran Mamdani, Democrat, has won the New York Mayaral election held on November 4 by getting 1,036,051, or 50.4% of the votes polled. Andrew M. Cuomo, Independent, got 854,995, or 41.6% and Curtis Sliwa, Republican, got 146,137, or 7.1%. Total...
Sri Lankan rulers, indigenous or European, used soldiers from India
India had a surplus of “military labour” that was willing to be recruited by any entity willing to pay
Bollywood film says Taj Mahal was built on destroyed Hindu temple
“The Taj Story” is part of a new trend in Bollywood to challenge entrenched notions about India having had a past marked by fraternal relations between Hindus and Muslims.
Was killing of Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Lasantha Wickramasekara political assassination or gangland execution?
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj/Daily Mirror Colombo, November 1 – An elected chairman of a Pradeshiya Sabha (divisional council) is shot dead by a lone gunman while meeting members of the public in his office. The party to which he belongs protests strongly and calls the killing a...
Drug control in Sri Lanka – Dissanayake’s strategy to break pernicious nexuses
By P.M.Amza/DailyFT Colombo, November 3 – For decades, Sri Lanka has waged cyclical wars on drugs — each beginning with zeal, arrests, and television footage, only to lose steam amid overcrowded prisons, entrenched corruption, and enduring addiction. Against that background, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s new...
Lankan opposition parties attempt to rally against government
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, November 2 – There was a time when the United National Party (UNP) was the single largest political party with the largest vote bank. Its main rival, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), was able to defeat the UNP in elections...
Radical Islamists on the upswing in Bangladesh and Pakistan
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Colombo, November 2-Radical Islamists are gaining ground in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Pakistan, they are getting more organised, militant and terroristic, while in Bangladesh, they are expanding their ideological reach, a development which could reshape domestic electoral outcomes and relations with India....
Importance of Bihar elections for Indian PM Narendra Modi
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, October 28 – Bihar, a large North Indian State with a population of 104 million, is going to elect a 243-member State Assembly on November 6 and 11. Results will be declared on November 14. The Bihar elections are critical...
JD Vance throws Hindu wife, Usha, under the bus
By Abhishek De/India Today New Delhi, November 1- US Vice President, JD Vance, had expressed his desire that his Hindu wife, Usha Vance, embraces Christianity. It quickly spiralled into one of the biggest controversies of Vance’s political career, with several accusing him of hypocrisy and...
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