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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicOpposition leader

Topic: Opposition leader

‘Iron Lady of Venezuela’, part of Chávez coup d’état—who’s Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado

Margaret Thatcher fan Machado was blocked from standing in the 2024 presidential elections, but she brought together a fractured Oppn. and energised the public to step out & vote.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) elects Ozgur Ozel as new president ahead of Turkey local elections

Ozel, a pharmacist by trade, received 812 of 1,366 possible votes at a tense, hours-long party congress in Ankara that took two rounds.

Vajpayee was an oddball of an RSS man, who ate non-vegetarian food and enjoyed his whisky

Ullekh N.P. in his book, The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox, writes how RSS backed a reluctant Advani for leader of opposition instead of Vajpayee.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.