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Burmese Court and Burma’s military dictatorship did what the world and Aung San Suu Kyi herself had been speculating. They found her guilty of violating terms of previous house arrest and sentenced her to 18 more months of house arrest. She had committed ‘crime’ of giving shelter to an eccentric American. Meanwhile American John Yettaw too will [...]

This question seems totally meaningless. Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of her life between prison and house-arrest. The verdict at the end of this week will again be one of the two. Freedom and justice will again be denied to world’s most popular brave Burmese opposition leader and to the people of Burma. The trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung [...]

Kurdish opposition groups have denounced widespread irregularities during the elections on Saturday, but the electoral commission of Iraq said that the voting took place under normal conditions. 78.5 percent of Iraq’s Kurds participated in the presidential elections and renewal of the parliament. It is estimated that the results of the parliamentary [...]

British forces are engaged in Operation Panther’s Claw in Helmand Province of Afghanistan for more than two weeks. They are fighting with Taliban forces closely. There have been casualties too. Two more British soldiers were killed in these close encounters with Taliban. Civilians have fled the province. Meanwhile US marines are holding talks with [...]

Imagine the following situation: a judge deciding an election using a deck. And thats is precisely what the Judge George Preston did: in front of the two candidates, Thomas McGuire on the left, and Adam Trenker on the right side, shuffle a pack of cards. The goal of the game was nothing more, nothing less than determining which of the two would [...]

With huge voter turnout and popularity of hardliner President Ahmadinejad waning Iran’s election results have created more tension and rioting in the Tehran and elsewhere. There has been record turnout of voters. There was definitely an anti-incumbency wave. But still President Ahmadinejad got re-elected. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Centrist candidate for [...]

If there has to be one stunning outcomes of recent Lok Sabha elections in India, it certainly is the debacle of Left and CPI(M) in West Bengal, one of the long standing communist states of the country. No one expected leading Opposition party, Trinamool Congress, led my not so popular a political figure, Mamata Banerjee to win majority of state seats [...]

Fifth and final phase of polling will end soon and sometime next week India’s election results will be declared. Well, the political buzz and activity confirms the worst fear that once again no single party will emerge with confident clear majority. Political parties’ somersaults and gymnastics have already begun. Each big political party is out [...]

The second phase of polling which took place yesterday in parts of West Bengal was one of the most violent elections seen by any state. The violence in Nandigram and different parts of the state is an indicator that popularity of the ruling CPI (M) party which has been in power for more than 30 years is waning. But the votes are cast. There has been [...]

Winnie Mandela is all set to contest polls as African National Congress (ANC) candidate for a seat in Parliament. She may get a seat and a cabinet berth too. So those critics who wrote her off are in for a huge surprise. Winnie Mandela will again step out from controversial shadows of the past. Winnie Mandela was loved and adulated by her nation and [...]