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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The stage is set for an absorbing electoral race between the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the by-election to the Nilambur assembly constituency in Kerala.

It was a meeting with difference. Usually the organisational meetings are held to project a leader or strategize the policies and ideas. But the June 15 meeting convened by Krishna Allavaru, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and in-charge of Bihar where Assembly elections, turned out to be combat turf with the former state unit chief Akhilesh Singh, known to be a protégé of RJD chief Lalu Yadav openly repudiating Rahul’s electoral strategy.

June 3, 2025 marks the end of an eighteen year wait for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (‘RCB’) to be crowned champions of Indian Premier League (‘IPL’) 2025. On June 4, an open bus victory was organised by the RCB management, DNA Event Management and the Karnataka State Cricket Association (‘KSCA’), like championship style rallies in football, or the massive rally by the American football team Chicago Bulls in 2023, was organised at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru. The event, organised at the home turf of RCB, was to felicitate the players and thank the fans for their support.

Intensification of minority pushback drive after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s reaffirmation during the special session of the Legislative Assembly of the State held on June 9, 2025, that his government will not halt the pushback drive against alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators, has sparked the minority community’s outrage across the state. They allege that CM Sarma is communalising Assam politics afresh in an unprecedented way to extract political benefits for himself and BJP, by targeting Muslims in the guise of action against Bangladeshi infiltrators.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav's announcement that his party will contest as part of INDIA alliance in 2027 assembly has boosted the morale of opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh.

As new and myriad forms of employment come into play, it is essential that we critically rethink what a “traditional employer-employee relationship” means and analyse these forms by broadly interpreting an “employment relationship” under the existing labour laws.

With the country’s consumer price inflation rate hovering around 3.20 percent in the last two years, the Reserve Bank of India’s latest decision to cut the bank rate by 50 basis points, the third consecutive reduction since February this year, may be understandable. However, it seems to have come at the wrong time. India’s economy is in the midst of the usual annual lean season session, from April to September. The prices of agri-products are shooting up.

The Modi government's recent announcement of the Census date as March 2027, before the implementation of a 33 per cent quota for women in Parliament and State legislatures in 2029 polls, has been welcomed by women. This is not just a step but a monumental leap for women's empowerment and gender justice—a cause that women have long championed. The introduction of a women's quota in legislatures, preceded by a Census and delimitation, is a significant milestone that must come sooner than later. This process is closely tied to the concepts of delimitation and the Census. Delimitation will follow the Census, followed by the implementation of the one-third quota for women.

Only a few days ago on June 12, 2025, the Union Government released its inflation data based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May, 2025, and said that the year-on-year headline inflation of the country declined to 2.82 per cent (provisional) over May, 2024. It was lowest since February, 2019, when it was 2.58 per cent. Nevertheless, one thing is obvious that it does not reflect the backbreaking price rise, which the common men, especially the poor, are reeling under.

Videos from the recent all party delegation to different countries on the India-Pakistan conflict had one thing in common - Asian News Agency’s (‘ANI’) logo. So a question naturally arises – can one news agency (ANI), which is a private company (unlike some others such as Press Trust of India (‘PTI’), which is a Trust), exercise a de facto monopoly in covering government related official news?