G. Sampath
Social Affairs Editor at The Hindu
Social Affairs Editor @the_Hindu. Author of Autoplay, How to Make Enemies and Offend People. Neurodivergent. Opinions here are personal.
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2 weeks ago |
thehindu.com | G. Sampath
Article 143 of the Constitution allows the President to seek the Supreme Court’s opinion on matters of law. This provision has been invoked by President Droupadi Murmu to raise 14 questions on a recent Supreme Court judgement. It concerns a case filed by the Tamil Nadu government against its Governor, who had withheld assent to 10 bills indefinitely.
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3 weeks ago |
thehindu.com | G. Sampath
At a time when Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging peace proposals, seemingly in a bid to start direct peace talks, Ukraine has carried out an unprecedented drone attack deep inside Russian territory. Ukrainian officials have claimed to have destroyed at least 40 Russian warplanes, including strategic bombers, and say they have imposed losses on Russia worth $7 billion dollars. This attack comes when Ukraine and Russia have just agreed on a prisoner swap deal.
Canada post-elections: Can PM Carney bring about a reset in relations with India? | In Focus podcast
3 weeks ago |
thehindu.com | G. Sampath
It’s been a month since Canada’s federal elections. Canadians have voted in a Liberal government, although a minority one, for the fourth straight time. They have reposed their faith in Mark Carney, a former central banker who had no prior political experience and hadn’t held political office until the start of this year. Everyone seems to agree that the Trump factor played a big role in the electoral outcome. What are the challenges facing the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney?
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3 weeks ago |
thehindu.com | G. Sampath
Manipur has been under President’s rule since February 13, 2025. But this week, a group of 10 MLAs met the Governor and informed him that they would like to form a “popular government” with the support of a total of 44 MLAs. The Manipur Assembly has a strength of 60. At the same time, the state is again in turmoil over an incident in Gwaltabi village where security forces allegedly asked for the state’s name on a bus to be covered up.
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1 month ago |
thehindu.com | G. Sampath
In November 2024, while appointing Steven C. Witkoff as Special Envoy to the Middle East [West Asia], U.S. President Donald Trump said that “Steve will be an unrelenting voice for peace.” Since then, Mr. Witkoff, 68, in the words of an American analyst, has morphed from Trump’s ‘Middle East Envoy’ into the ‘Envoy of Everything’.
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