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Donald Trump’s thumping victory for USA Presidency for the second term unleashed a mixed bag of signal to India-USA relations. Unlike first term, rising global political tension due to Russia-Ukraine war and western sanctions on Russian have India’s situation a but different from the first term.

KOLKATA: Rare exceptions apart, diplomats as well as foreign policy spokesmen in Delhi as well as Dhaka have in recent times observed protocol-related niceties and established norms while referring to current developments in Bangladesh. Their mutual restraint has been praiseworthy: Post Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's fall from power and the spectacular decline of her Awami League party (for the moment), Indo/Bangla bilateral relations have turned a great deal frostier than before.

She was running with her all three children when they shot at her. The pain was unbearable as she fell. Arsonists saw her and set her on fire. Zosangkim, a 31-year old mother was turned into ashes. It was November 7, the day when the great October revolution had taken place. It was a promise that the suffering would end. But even after more than a century, change is yet to come.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer could respond to a renewed Donald Trump presidency by confronting the far right in Britain and internationally. He could have used his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the common causes of the rise of Reform UK in Britain, National Rally in France and analogous movements across Europe.

LONDON: Confirming the trend in many countries in 2024, in Lithuania’s general election voters opted for change rather than more of the same. In the two-round contest that ended on October 27, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won a landslide victory, capturing fifty-two out of 141 parliamentary seats, well up from their previous thirteen. This Monday, the LSDP announced a coalition pact allowing the party to lead a new administration. So what explains the shift, and how much change can we really expect?

As president elect Donald Trump is edging towards taking over powers in America on January 20 next year, the country is lurching towards becoming a typical case of a plutocracy.

The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Baku in Azerbaijan must deliver an agreement on increased climate financing target up to the level that is at least necessary, if not enough, to tackle the present climate crisis. It is necessary since the pledge set in 2009 is to expire by this year end, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commitments are far less than required to reduce the targeted emission level, and there is a huge financing gap to meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius as per Paris Agreement of 2015.

Everybody in the saffron ecosystem supports Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's unity call 'Batenge toh katenge' for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections as well as for the Uttar Pradesh bypolls. The RSS picked it up, BJP spokespersons trotted it out on television news channels and BJP supporters and BJP workers adopted it, everybody except Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has never once spoken aloud 'Batenge toh katenge.'

From signing the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the United Nations (UN) Charter in 1945, the world has come a long way in its struggle to establish an organisation subordinated to no Earthly authority that upholds dignity and keeps a check on the untrampled exercise of sovereign power over territories.

RANCHI: Hogging the limelight in the Jharkhand Assembly elections this time round are the women voters the sheer number of whom has compelled the two main contending coalitions the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led ruling side and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Opposition – to be generous in offering cash assistance and other incentives. The all-out bid for the crucial women vote begins tomorrow — Wednesday, November 13 – when voting for the first phase covering 43 constituencies in the House of 81 members takes place.