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Black women on what Harris’s loss says about the US: ‘Voters failed to show up for her’
Politics tamfitronics In the hours after Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election bid and endorse Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee for president, 40,000 Black women – leaders in politics, business and entertainment – met on a Zoom call to rally around the vice-president.“We went from that call to organizing our house, our block, our church, our sorority, and our unions,” said Glynda C Carr, president and co-founder of Higher Heights, an organization that works to help Black women get elected to political office. “That is what we did for the 108 days that she ran for office. Black women used our organizing power around a woman that we knew was qualified, that had a lived experience.”
Tata Steel back in black, net at Rs 759cr
Business new tamfitronics NEW DELHI: Tata Steel on Wednesday reported a net profit of Rs 759 crore for Sept 2024 quarter, helped by lower expenses. It had posted a net loss of Rs 6,511 crore in July-Sept of 2023-24 fiscal, the company said in an exchange filing. The company's total income fell to Rs 54,503 crore in second quarter against Rs 55,910 crore in the same period a year ago.Tata Steel reduced expenses to Rs 52,332 crore from Rs 55,853 crore in year-ago quarter. In a separate statement, Tata Steel CEO and MD TV Narendran said global operating environment remained complex, with key regions facing subdued growth. Macroeconomic conditions in China continued to weigh on commodity prices, including steel. agencies
A ‘Black Nazi’, sexting RFK Jr and an Oprah cameo: One weekend in US politics
Politics tamfitronics It will be interesting to watch whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ interview with Oprah Winfrey will impact her steady progress in the polls. The interview made Trump predictably mad, and included a “shock” admission that she owns a gun and would happily shoot an intruder (something we’re sure was a moment of unguarded candour and not an attempt to counter any image of her as a milquetoast leftie scold).But frankly, over the last few days, much more intriguing events have unfolded away from the main candidates, with prominent journalist Olivia Nuzzi and Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson finding themselves at the centre of two masterpieces of scandal.Here’s to you, Mr RobinsonFrom prologue to denouement, the story of Mark Robinson may be the platonic ideal of a political scandal. An evangelical ultra-MAGA who has courted controversy...
In black and red: 75 years of the DMK
Politics tamfitronics “The DMK, which split from the DK, redirected mass Dravidianism from a politics of heresy to a politics of community. Central to this change was the fuller incorporation of early Dravidianism’s essentialized ethnic categories within a popular discourse, which inspired the mobilisation of a broad coalition spanning the intermediate and lower strata.” — Narendra Subramanian in Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization, OUP, 1999.It is the element of a “broad coalition” that has been a key feature of the DMK and this, among others, has kept the party going for 75 years. In all likelihood, it will continue to be so in future. A product of social and political changes that Tamil society witnessed in the later part of the 19th Century and the early years of the 20th Century, the organisation, seen at one...
