Author: Udita Pandey
The former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney is dead at the age of 84. Cheney, who had taken a strong influence on domestic and foreign policy of U.S. in presidency of George W. Bush, died on Monday night with complications related to pneumonia and heart and vascular diseases as confirmed by his family on Tuesday.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a University that is this year holding a highly volatile student union election whose results have been announced today, November 6, 2025. In an excellent turnout of 67 percent, Left Unity has swept the polls, winning all four central panel posts in the wake of an excellent campaign.
Controversy has been caused by a scathing article by senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor labeling dynastic politics as a serious threat to the Indian democracy, with a specific reference to the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has solidified political leadership as a birthright, and demands political reforms to make India more meritocratic.
The newly appointed Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of six state universities in West Bengal by Governor C. V. Ananda Bose signify a significant change in the management of higher education in the state and the long-running stalemate on the appointment of the important leadership roles.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would raise a massive saffron flag on top of the recently built Ram Temple in Ayodhya, marking the finalization of the temple and a new era in the history of neither the city nor the country as a whole in terms of spirituality and culture.
In a historic landslide vote, Catherine Connolly, a long-time left-wing party and independent candidate is elected into office as the 10th president of Ireland. Connolly won with 63 percent of the first-preference votes, the largest to be achieved in an Irish presidential election, crushing center-right candidate Heather Humphreys of Fine Gael by a very wide margin.
Other recent developments in India have been to dramatically enhance diplomatic and strategic relations with Afghanistan under Taliban leadership through upgrading its technical mission to Kabul into a full-fledged embassy and to participate in higher levels of bilateral relations. Such is happening in the context of poor relations between Taliban and Pakistan which gives India a strategic chance of re-engaging Afghanistan without officially acknowledging the Taliban government.
The Kerala government has officially enrolled in the Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme of the Central government after almost two years of opposition to the scheme alignment with the National Education Policy ( NEP 2020 ).
In the state visit of Indian President Narendra Modi to Mongolia, the countries signed ten significant agreements updating a 70-year history of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The agreements were signed following the delegation-level discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House, with a strengthened strategic coverage of the countries in the energy, defence, cultural, and digital sectors.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sought compensations and further financial support at the Centre to reconstruct flood-affected North Bengal on charges that both Bhutan and the Centre have failed to address the crisis that has killed at least 32 people and displaced thousands of others.