Category: Politics
India Elections Uncovered: The World’s Largest Democracy
An Overview of India’s Elections India will be holding the Lok Sabha elections from 19th April to 1st June. It started last Friday, and with almost one billion voters taking part, it will be the largest democratic election the world has ever seen. Due to the sheer size and logistics of the election, it will…
Ukraine aid approved by Biden
On Tuesday evening, the US Senate approved a bill sending $61 Billion of aid to Ukraine. The total aid budget is $96 Billion to Israel, Taiwan, and Israel. The Senate voted 79 to 18. Image belongs to Copyright Holder. Image from – AP Senior Airman Stephani Barge/U.S. Air Force via AP This comes after the Ukraine aid…
Rwanda Bill passed in House of Lords
Take a quiz on this article: On Monday the 22nd, the House of Lords passed UK’s Rwanda bill after the peers un-successfully sent it back to the House of Commons five times. The House of Lords wanted two main amendments to the bill The UK expects to fly 2200 asylum seekers to Rwanda in July through…
TikTok on Fast Track for US Ban? Senate Considers crucial Bill.
The popular social media app TikTok faces an expedited path to a potential U.S. ban. The House of Representatives recently included a provision in a critical bill providing aid to Ukraine and other countries. This provision requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest its ownership within a year. This effectively forcing a sale or…
Rishi Sunak Declares Anti-Sick Note Campaign
Rishi Sunak has vowed to tackle the UK’s prevalent ‘sick note culture’. He claims it is heavily slowing productivity and driving down employment rates. He plans to strip GPs of the right to write off patients from work. What is Sick Note Culture? ‘Sick note culture’ refers to a workplace environment where employees frequently take…
Weekly Politics Summary – 19/4/24: Israel Strikes Iran
Take a Quiz about this article at: Israel Strikes Iran On the morning of Friday the 19th, Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iranian Military targets within Iran and Iraq. Israel targeted a large Iranian Army base in the city of Isfahan with radar technologies. Further strikes took place on military targets around Tabriz. By disabling Iran’s radar…