The two-week deadline to elect a new Taoiseach is now being cast in doubt. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents are supposed to vote in Micheál Martin to head the new government on January 22.

Renowned historian and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grand-nephew Sugata Bose on Wednesday said India is falling back into narrow nationalism, which can be defeated with “universalism and ...