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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This was a course of action the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government should have avoided. Politics of revenge pays neither in the short term nor in the long term.

Who is the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat trying to fool? His decrying the culture of lynching of the Muslims by the Hindutva vigilantes or his observation that all Indians share the same DNA, cannot be differentiated on basis of worship must not be construed as his change of heart or RSS, the progeny of Hitler’s fascist organisation divorcing its politics of Muslim bashing and smashing the ideology of secularism and pluralism.

Medicine is a passion not a profession. Preventing disease and treating the patients gives immense pleasure to a doctor. A person dedicated to the cause is beyond the need for praises. However recognition of medical professional’s work from the mouth of the head of the government is a different matter. The Prime Minister very well utilized the art of using words to praise the doctors on July 1 the day dedicated to the memory of Dr B C Roy, a physician, educationist, philanthropist, freedom fighter and statesman who served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the Congress government.

Stan Swami died in judicial custody. He was 84 years of age and ailing with several diseases including Parkinson’s. National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested him nine months ago in October 2020 on terror charges, yet unfounded, under (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). In February, a forensic evidence emerged that found the letters forming the very basis of the case were in fact put in the laptop of a detenue Rona Wilson before he was arrested. Prosecution case became doubtful after the evidence, but barring 81 year old poet Varavara Rao, none of the 16 detenues have reportedly been granted bail. Trial is yet to start because NIA failed to submit all evidences and chargesheet.

New Delhi: Ace boxer MC Mary Kom and hockey team Captain Manpreet Singh were on Monday named flag bearers of the Indian contingent at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on 23rd July.

Brazil which plays a key role in transforming the politics of the Latin American region is undergoing a big churning. This was most evident in the last one week as thousands of citizens staged massive rallies in all the major cities of the country on Saturday after a judge of the Supreme federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against the far right president Jair Bolsanoro in the covaxin scandal. For the first time, there was demand for the impeachment for the President from the crowd.

Many diplomats who now keep watch on strategic shifts in Afghanistan and around are deeply worried over the CIA forecast that the Afghan Government will in all probability collapse within six months after the US troops withdrawal. Apparently, the syndrome is manifest .as in less than 48 hours after Friday 14 districts fell in the north-eastern Badakhshan province .The list of fallen districts is on the rise. The Taliban control is to date extended to about a third of all 421 districts and district centres of the country. Fleeing of over thousands of Afghan soldiers to Tajikistan when Taliban forces have captured more territory across Afghanistan's rural areas, lends some credence to the CIA viewpoint.

It has been around a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the world. India has also not been spared of the pandemic’s wrath. Over the last few months, there has been significant discussion on how the Indian economy has been affected by the pandemic, including issues like a negative growth rate, rising unemployment, and increasing non-performing assets, with few optimistic voices of recovery speckled in between.

Since the start of COVID-19, the pandemic has seriously impacted at least 60 per cent people from the bottom on the scale of income in every country. Only a little more spending would have prevented millions of them from falling into poverty and great human tragedies, but we could not do so. A look at the spending world over on social protection during March 2020 to Mid-May 2021 reveals a distressing sign in South Asia with largest number and percentage of people suffered in India.

At a time when the opposition should have had an easy run in U.P. in the aftermath of the Yogi Adityanath government’s mismanagement of the Covid crisis which set the alarm bells ringing in the RSS and the BJP camps, the poor performance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress in the district council presidential elections of the panchayats has come as a surprise.