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Millions watching the G-7 leaders plus Trump in Quebec and then the Trump-North Korea talks in Singapore understandably may have missed the also-important events simultaneously happening here in Leipzig. While those important events were unfolding internationally the very important political party, Die Linke, was holding a congress in Leipzig, the famous German trading city of old.

Within three months of his remark “all is not well in the NDA”, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has made a 180 degree turn to sing praise of the BJP and its leader Narendra Modi.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: From being a ‘party with a difference’, the Bharatiya Janata Party unit in Kerala has metamorphosed into a party full of differences.

LUCKNOW: BSP and its national president Mayawati appear to be on the driving seat for forming the alliance against BJP in UP.

In deciding to support Arvind Kejriwal in one of his customary skirmishes with those whom he regards as his enemy, the chief ministers of West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala may be backing the wrong horse.

The allegation is the two are shameless publicity-seekers. The defence is Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma don’t need publicity; it is publicity that stalks them! A super-cricketer and a top actress, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Millions of slurping fans follow their every action. Is that all? Could it be that ‘Virushka’ (Virat+Anushka) are overenthusiastic attention seekers, some of their actions designed to catch the eye of a certain very powerful man?

With a little more than a month to go for the three-day polling during 25- 27 July to elect 272 Members of National Assembly in the 342-seat national parliament, Pakistan’s ten years of uninterrupted freedom from military dictatorship palpitate. The electorate comprises 105.96 million, slightly more than 50 per cent of total population, estimated at 21 million. Ten MNAs will be from religious minorities and 60 are reserved for women while the rest is by proportional representation from parties getting more than 5 per cent of valid votes. Of the registered voters, 55.9 percent are males and 44.1 percent females. Alongside the National Assembly, elections are taking place for provincial legislatures of Punjab, Sind, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan as well.

The sudden shift in President Donald Trump’s stand on Russia and calling on the world's leading economies to reinstate Russia to the Group of 7 nations four years after it was cast out for annexing Crimea is a gift to President Putin for helping him in winning the trust of the South Korean president.

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

China has imposed higher tariffs of 25 percent on imports from the United States worth some $50 billion. This is in response to USA imposing similar tariffs on imports from China of an equal amount.