Gavin Newsom is off and running, eyeing the White House as he enters the far turn and his final year as California governor. The track record for California Democrats and the presidency is not a good one. In the nearly 250 years of these United States, not one Left Coast Democrat has ever been elected…
Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Sunday (December 14, 2025) openly criticised the Supreme Court over its intervention in the appointment of Vice-Chancellors (V-Cs) in Digital University Kerala (DUK) and APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU). The Governor deplored the tendency of one institution usurping the role…
California’s potential to lead a national Democratic comeback was on full display as party leaders from across the country recently gathered in downtown Los Angeles. But is the party ready to bet on the Golden State? Appearances at the Democratic National Committee meeting by the state’s most prominent Democrats, former Vice President Kamala Harris and…
Pandit Partho Sarothy during his sarod recital in the music programme of Swaraanand Partishthan’ held at the Ravindra Kalabhavan in Mangaluru on December 14, 2025. He was accompanied by Ashis Paul on Tabla and Karthik on Tanpura | Photo Credit: H.S. Manjunath As the bright winter sun lit up the stage on Sunday (December 14,…
Mr. Mani said that State Government-disbursed social welfare pensions put food on the table of the people who turned “against us (LDF)” at the ballot. File | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran Veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] leader, M.M. Mani, on Sunday (December 14, 2025) expressed contrition that he had risked bringing disrepute to…
BJP MP Sambit Patra addresses a press conference in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Ahead of the Congress’ rally over the “vote theft” issue, the BJP on Sunday (December 14, 2025) alleged that the main Opposition party was holding the event in its bid to “protect infiltrators” from being removed from the electoral…
Congress to hold rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on December 14 over ‘vote chori’ The Congress will intensify its campaign against alleged “vote chori” with a rally at Ramlila Maidan on Sunday (December 14, 2025), seeking to hold the government and the Election Commission (EC) accountable for what it claims to be “collusion to…
Polling officials after receiving electoral material ahead of the zila parishad and panchayat elections, at Government Mohindra College, in Patiala on December 13, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI A voter turnout of eight per cent was witnessed till 10 a.m. in the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections in Punjab on Sunday (December 14, 2025),…
The federal prosecutor faced the jury, brandishing the item he said had been “used as a sword” to assault a federal officer during a July protest in downtown Los Angeles. The object that Assistant U.S. Atty. Patrick Kibbe said was wielded as a weapon: An umbrella that an investigator needed a special scale to weigh…
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Security forces have arrested six militants, including two women, belonging to different banned organisations for their alleged involvement in extortion activities in Manipur, a police statement said on Sunday (December 14, 2025). All the arrests were made on Saturday (December 14). Two active women cadres of the United…