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Buffeted for six decades by the U.S. economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to COVID- 19, Cuba’s already shaky economy is deteriorating. Government leaders recently outlined remedial steps leading to what they call a “new normal.”

It is unfortunate that an event that concerns the very existence of life on earth is hardly under debate and is poorly reported. With Honduras submitting its document of ratification to the UNO on 24th October, the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has now been ratified by 50 countries. This fulfils the criteria for its entry into force. The treaty is now set to be operational within 90 days from ratification, that is on 20th January 2021 the treaty will become international law binding on the states that have already ratified it and those which subsequently ratify the treaty. This is a great step forward to eliminate nuclear weapons and save the mankind from extinction. This is all the more important as several parts of the world are now under low level conflicts and some parts of the world witnessing full scale war with the blatant intervention of big powers. Any escalation could trigger the use of nuclear weapons.

Barely forty eight hours ahead of the first phase of polling for the Bihar assembly, the BJP leadership has brought out significant strategic shift in its campaigning.

The Maharashtra Government and the Mumbai Police will not have to work hard to compile the list of FIRs filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. There are 100s of FIRs lodged against him piled high on Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh’s desk. There is no love lost between the two and the apex court has asked Arnab to give an assurance that he will do “responsible journalism.”

As India’s relations with China have steadily deteriorated and the two countries are just a step away from an armed confrontation, Bangladesh’s relations with China are steadily improving. Today, China is the biggest trading partner of Bangladesh and Bangladesh is China’s second biggest training partner in South Asia. The bilateral trade of the two countries now stands at $18.33 billion. And the volume of bilateral trade is growing. It has registered an increase of 24.6 per cent over the past five years.

On the occasion of the birth centenary of President of India late Shri K R Narayanan the country gratefully remembers him. K.R. Narayanan was born on October 27, 1920 in a Dalit family in Uzhavoor, now in Kottayam district of Kerala. Through his education he emerged as a great scholar like Dr. Ambedkar. After his education he worked as a journalist for The Hindu in 1943 and between 1944-45 with The Times of India. He was also writing for some foreign journals. Later he joined Indian Foreign Service and served as an Ambassador of India in several countries including China. After retiring from Foreign Service in 1978, he was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in January 1979. He remained in that position till October 1980. Then he was elected to the Parliament and became the Minister in the Union government. Later he was elected as Vice President in 1992 and finally the President of India in 1997.

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu is quietly getting ready to face the Assembly polls scheduled for early next year. With just a few months left, the party is sorting out its internal problems, first by declaring the incumbent chief minister E. Palaniswamy (EPS) as its chief ministerial candidate, side-lining the other claimant and the deputy chief minister O. Pannerselvam (OPS).

New Delhi: "It is going to be very crucial" admitted Delhi Capitals pace spearhead Kagiso Rabada as his team takes on Sunrisers Hyderabad in their 12th fixture of IPL in Dubai on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Promising Jr Women's Hockey Team forward Suman Devi Thoudam says that her aim and dream is to represent India at the senior level.

New Delhi: Injured opener Rohit Sharma and pacer Ishant Sharma were not considered for selection while leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy was the only new face in the Indian T20 squad as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday named three squads for the upcoming tour of Australia.