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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is teetering from crisis to crisis. He survived a second no-confidence motion on October 1, the second in two days, and on October 25, Trudeau faced an internal challenge from his party MPs, 24 of whom have asked him to resign by October 28.

BHOPAL: BJP which claims to be a party with a difference is facing unexpected and unprecedented opposition over the selection of a candidate for the Budhni Assembly seat. The Budhni is facing a bypoll to be held on November 13.The Budhni bypoll was necessitated after Shivraj Singh Chouhan vacated following his victory from Vidisha Lok Sabha seat in the recent Lok Sabha polls.

A slip of a girl when Aparna Dasgupta made her debut as a tomboy Mrinmoyee in Satyajit Ray's Samapti in 1961 , the final part of Teen Konya, few had doubts that she will go far. But perhaps none had foreseen that she would carve out her niche in Bengali films not only as an actor and director but emerge as one of the voices of conscience in West Bengal.

Jawaharlal Nehru University plans to teach the “Concept of Akhand Bharat”. It does not end here. The process has been unleashed. More distortions would be brought through Vidya Bharati, an institution through which the RSS runs a massive network of schools across the country. And here comes the question. How many deletions are to be inflicted on the history syllabus for schools, colleges and universities?

LONDON: The International Monetary Fund AGM in Washington had barely reflected on the efficacy of its austerity regime in reducing inflation before beginning to worry about the inevitable hike in global oil prices if Benjamin Netanyahu’s offensive is not stayed.

The one-hour meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 23 on the side lines of the BRICS summit at Kazan, has signalled a breakthrough in the bilateral relations between the two largest nations of Asia and the world. What was of significance of the latest meeting was the cordial optics and the mood of the two leaders who gave definite indications of going ahead with the task of restoring normal relations based on cooperation and competition.

The Indian government announced on October 21 that an agreement was reached between India and China on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is a welcome development that hopefully would lead to the normalisation of relations between the two neighbouring countries.

An introspection of foreign direct investment flow in India reveals that FDI fell on the lowest ebb in 2023-24 within 5 years. This is despite the fact that country achieved one of the highest growth in the economy. It dropped to US$ 44,423 million in 2023-24, from US $ 59,636 million in 2020-21. This is in contrast to spur in GDP growth, viz, 9.4 per cent in 2021-22, 6.7 percent in 2022-23 and 7.2 percent in 2023-24.

Indian origin Black African-American Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris faces imminent defeat unless former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, in one of his crankier moments, pulls out from the race before November 5, which is not a possibility unless a fourth assassin doesn’t miss the orange-head for the bleeding ear.

If winning the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand is crucial for the political survival of Narendra Modi, the electoral victory in these two states has wider connotation for the RSS, as it would reinvent the philosophical importance of its politics of Hindutva and reaching to its destination of turning India into a Hindu Rashtra.