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Parliament so far seems to be nothing but a spillover of election-time campaign rhetoric (sic). Both 'battering ram' Opposition and 'bulldozer' government seem to have misunderstood the mandate — of their jobs. Holding successful elections, winning or losing in polls, and the act of voting are only one aspect of parliamentary democracy. The real 'dance of democracy' is what happens in between elections.

Britain, senior officials of India and the UK will hold the next round of talks this month for the proposed free trade agreement to resolve the pending issues and close the negotiations, an official said. The India-UK talks for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) began in January 2022. The 14th round of talks stalled as the two nations stepped into their general election cycles. The official said the two sides are in touch, and the next round would start this month only. Britain's newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday and said he stood ready to conclude an FTA that worked for both sides.

US Democratic party are reported to have given a two-week grace period to Biden to improve his approval rating on the various national surveys. This comes in wake of what many are considering to be a disastrous performance by Biden in the last presidential debate. Many donors indicated that it will be tough for them to stomach Biden’s falling numbers and possible loss in the presidential election. Biden seem to be confident of his chances and has refused to step down from the contest against Trump. The donors have asked Biden to take action and fix the falling survey numbers, according to the New York Post.

Sojan Joseph, a mental health nurse in the National Health Service (NHS) who migrated from Kerala 22 years ago, is among the new crop of Labour members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons in the UK general election this week. Joseph, 49, connected with the voters at the doorstep with his pledge to ensure more mental health services in his constituency and succeeded in making a dent in the Conservative stronghold of Ashford in Kent, south-eastern England. In defeating Tory stalwart and former minister Damian Green, Joseph also dealt a blow to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the right-wing candidates in a seat where the far-right Reform UK came in third place after the Tories. «I am humbled with the trust you all placed in me and fully aware of the responsibilities that come with it. I will work hard for everyone in Ashford, Hawkinge and villages,» said Joseph in his acceptance speech on Friday.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s summer campaign circuit will not include a stop at the Calgary Stampede.

Ukraine, and major French news sites improbably registered in an obscure Pacific territory, population 15,000. All are part of disinformation campaigns orchestrated out of Russia and targeting France, according to French officials and cybersecurity experts in Europe and the United States. France's legislative elections and the Paris Olympics sent them into overdrive. More than a dozen reports issued in the past year point to an intensifying effort from Russia to undermine France, particularly the upcoming Games, and President Emmanuel Macron, who is one of Ukraine's most vocal supporters in Europe.

Parliament. The ongoing session, the first after Lok Sabha elections, was expected to be stormy. It lived up to the billing.

Labour Party headed for a landslide victory Friday in a parliamentary election, an exit poll and partial returns indicated, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval. As the sun rose, official results showed Labour had 326 of the 650 seats, as vote counting continued. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had already acknowledged the defeat and said he called center-left Labour's leader Keir Starmer to congratulate him on becoming the country's next prime minister. Starmer will face a jaded electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric.

Hemant Soren preparing for his third term as Jharkhand’s chief minister, attention turns to whether she will join his cabinet. Kalpana's political ascent Kalpana’s life took a significant turn in March this year when she officially joined the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), over a month after Hemant’s arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). At 38, her transition from homemaker to politician saw her actively campaigning for the party, with Champai Soren’s backing, as JMM's face during the Lok Sabha elections. As per a TOI report, she conducted 151 election rallies, appeared alongside top INDIA bloc leaders, and secured a victory by over 22,000 votes in the Gandey assembly segment in Giridih district. This seat had been vacated by Hemant to bring her into the state assembly in case he was imprisoned due to the ongoing land scam investigation. Upon entering politics, Kalpana stated, «I will be ready to take on whatever responsibility the party gives me.» After her election from Gandey, she emphasised her commitment to accelerating development in her constituency ahead of the assembly elections.

market myths and debunked them in a note. The myths listed by it include one that says that Indian markets are trading at reasonable valuations and the other that says that strong GDP growth is akin to high returns. Indian headline indices S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 have been creating new records since its June 4 debacle when the market crashed on the election results not giving a full majority of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). There has been no looking back since then, with Sensex traversed over 8,300 points while Nifty soared 2,500 points. In percentage terms, the gains have been to the tune of 11.5%.

Trinamool leader Kunal Ghosh, releasing an audio recording with BJP’s Maniktala nominee and All India Football Federation president Kalyan Chaubey, has accused Chaubey of offering a post in national football if Ghosh helped him to win the bypoll. The conversation puts the BJP candidate in a tight spot, only a day ahead of the by-poll. Ghosh has been appointed as a convener of the Trinamool’s four-member committee to manage the Maniktala constituency, which was represented by the late state minister Sadhan Pande. Pande’s wife Supti Pande is fighting for the seat.

Q. What economic concerns are central in Britain’s 2024 election? A. Britain faces certain structural challenges now — growth is limping back to a very low level after a practically recessionary situation. It is unclear how GDP will increase. This problem is shared by other European economies and Japan as well. The United States escapes this by being a vast market with more robust demographics while Europe and Japan are ageing — one solution is immigration but it’s a highly problematic political issue in the UK. So, in Britain currently, there is no clear route to growth beyond 1% or 2% — we are not talking about anything close to the 6% or 7% seen in India.

National Rally (RN) has suffered a stinging defeat in the run-off round of France's parliamentary elections, hobbled by electoral pacts between the left and President Emmanuel Macron's centrists. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella's RN led the first round of voting in the election on June 30 but fell back to third in Sunday's second round after the victorious left-wing New Popular Front (NPF) alliance and Macron's second-placed centrists joined forces to avoid splitting the anti-RN vote. The New Popular Front and its allies won 187 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, Macron's centrist group won 159 seats and the National Rally and its allies won 142 seats, interior ministry figures show.

Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates in September. Nonfarm U.S. payrolls increased by 206,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department report showed. Data for May was revised sharply down to show 218,000 jobs added instead of the previously reported 272,000. The unemployment rate rose to 4.1%, slightly higher than the estimated 4.0%.

Congress on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke all parliamentary norms by accusing the then Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari of having an «inclination» towards the opposition when the BJP came to power in 2014. In his reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President's address in the Lok Sabha on July 2, Modi said, «No matter how many numbers they claim, when we came in 2014, our strength in the Rajya Sabha was very low, and the Chair's inclination was somewhat on the other side. But we did not waver from our resolve to serve the country with pride.» «I want to tell the people of the country that the decision you have made, the order you have given us to serve, neither Modi nor this government will be afraid of any such obstacles. We will fulfill the resolutions we have set out to achieve,» Modi had said.

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Waikar in a hotel redevelopment case, Shiv Sena (UBT) Leader Sanjay Raut remarked on Saturday that it seems even Dawood might receive a clean chit soon. «What else can happen? Now the only one left to receive a clean chit is Dawood. Ravindra Waikar deserted Uddhav Thackeray to join the Shinde group out of fear of the ED,» Raut stated. Waikar, his wife, and four close associates were implicated in a case registered by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The case involved the construction of a star hotel in Jogeshwari, located in Mumbai's western suburbs, allegedly involving manipulation of land use conditions.

The UK general election has resulted in a significant victory for the Labour Party.

Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump will be addressing one of the crypto industry’s upcoming largest conferences at Nashville, Tennessee, later this month.

Reynolds has been the MP for Wycombe since the general election last week and was formerly an MP between 2010 and 2019. In 2010 she was selected by then-Labour leader Ed Miliband as a shadow junior Foreign Office minister and in 2011 she was promoted to the role of shadow Europe minister. In 2013, she became shadow housing minister and in 2015 she became shadow communities and local government secretary. Tulip Siddiq appointed Labour's City minister On Monday (8 July), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced Reynolds had been appointed as a parliamentary secretary at t...

Supreme Court's ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election. The Supreme Court did not dismiss — as Trump had wanted — the indictment alleging he illegally schemed to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. But the ruling still amounts to a major victory for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose legal strategy has focused on delaying the proceedings until after the election. The timing of the trial matters because if Trump defeats Biden, he could appoint an attorney general who would seek the dismissal of this case and the other federal prosecutions he faces. Or Trump could potentially order a pardon for himself.