Presidential Elections  

Amidst the election buzz, the cultural heritage of Vice President Kamala Harris and Usha Chilukuri, the wife of Republican candidate JD Vance, is drawing interest on social media.

Kamala Harris, America's first female Vice President, has been chosen as the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. She will compete against Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, in the upcoming elections.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a 38-year-old biotech businessman in America. His company generates turnover in billions each year. He is contesting in the 2024 US presidential elections.

Droupadi Murmu is an Indian politician. In the year 2022, she became the first woman from ST category to be elected as the President of India in the presidential elections. She took her oath as the President on 25 July 2022.

Earlier, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former defence secretary and brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, based his campaign on providing strong leadership on national security issues.

New Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapakse is seen to be closer to China, which lends heavily to Sri Lanka. India would tread cautiously as China would look to expand its naval presence in the Indian Ocean while India hates to concede space in the region. 

Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sri Lanka's former defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa on winning the 2019 Presidential elections

During the Presidential elections in Sri Lanka, the six-week campaign in a neck-and-neck race witnessed tensions mounting across the country, with the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) documenting at least 743 electoral violations, including at least 45 cases of assaults or threats.