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Indrajit Gupta, the dedicated Communist leader of India in the last century and an outstanding Parliamentarian dominated the country’s trade union movement and the Left movement for the last sixty years of the 20th century. He belonged to that generation of leaders from undivided Bengal whose sense of patriotism and deep anguish at being ruled by the British led them to search for new path of securing freedom both political and economic. Many of them belonging to the English educated aristocratic families of Bengal were attracted to Marxism-Leninism during their student life in Britain during 1930s and 1940s.

United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke for the Hindu against perpetrators of wrongs against the community and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh reacted almost immediately, challenging Gabbard to provide "evidence".

LUCKNOW: The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is facing tough time to maintain caste balance in the selection of district presidents and state president to make the organisation strong enough to face state Assembly polls in 2027 and panchayat polls.

One lakh Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) connecting around 13 crore small and marginal farmers are getting big boost to be ultimately transformed under the new Union Ministry of Cooperation created in July 2021, though the performance of the ministry has been dismal so far, and there were huge gaps in the budget allocations and the actual expenditures.

The recent arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in the United States, an active member of Columbia University’s protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, takes me back to 2016 when student political leaders Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of sedition. A controversy had stemmed from an alleged event at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where slogans allegedly critical of India and sympathetic to Afzal Guru, had been raised.

NEW YORK: In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank of Greenland or physically attacked, or that Elon Musk was offering payments to Greenlandic citizens. These cases were financial scams rather than politically motivated disinformation, but their emergence shows how much interest the 2025 Greenlandic election campaign attracted.

Sidelined by the Trump 2.0 administration and rebuffed by India, Bangladesh interim government is exploring all avenues to rejuvenate the country’s ailing economy by expanding its trade and investment relationship with Pakistan and China. The objective is to reduce the dependence on India in major areas where the outsourcing is possible from these two friendly countries.

India’s popular brand ambassadors Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni engaged to promote the "Mutual Funds Sahi Hai" campaign by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) may soon lose their own brand image substantially as recent investors in mutual funds are losing heavily with the highly inflated market going through a long period of ‘correction.’ In fact, the long losing streak in the market may aptly suggest ‘mutual funds are not the right choice’ (Mutual Funds Sahi Nahi Hai) especially when the market boils.

On Thursday, Tamil Nadu underwent a significant cultural transformation by replacing the official rupee symbol with the Tamil letter 'ரூ' in its budget document. Pronounced 'roo,' this letter represents the Indian currency in the Tamil language and also embodies the region's rich cultural heritage. Chief Minister Stalin's decision to change the symbol could have wider repercussions on global influence. The Rupee is one of India's most important symbols of sovereignty.

BJP’s winning 9 of the 10 mayoral seats has raised significant political concerns for the Congress. One seat was even won by an Independent, which is even more concerning for the Congress necessitating the party to review the loss critically and impartially to know why and how the party lost this election too at a time when it was hoping a comeback after the great loss in October 2024 Vidhan Sabha elections, which it had lost chiefly because of infighting.