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As the 2018 World Cup Games were kicked off at the Luzniki Stadium in Moscow, the enthusiasm for football is slowly working into a frenzy. For India, there is an irony in all this. It is not playing in the World Cup as it does not even qualify.

The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India today welcomed the Korean Accord reached at the Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore which will possibly lead to de-nuclearisation in the Korean peninsula. “The joint statement issued by the two leaders after the Summit is positive and needs to be welcomed by one and all,” the CPI said.

The Quantico FBI agent finds a rosary on a slain terror suspect and Eureka! “It’s a Hindu prayer rosary”. The Priyanka Quantico character promptly cues in: “It is a false-flag operation to blame Pakistan just before the crucial Kashmir summit!”

BHOPAL: After the conclusion of ten-day farmers’ stir both BJP and Congress have launched a campaign to win over the support of various sections of society. While the Congress is holding mass meetings, the BJP workers have launched a door to door campaign. BJP leaders including Chief Minister, Ministers, top functionaries, MPs and MLAs are calling on families to apprise them of the achievements of the four-year Modi rule and also that of the state government.

Chinese media were euphoric that the 18th Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Qingdao, China, where India and Pakistan were admitted as new members of the organization, will open a new page for better relations between the two countries. Chinese newspaper Global Times headlined the event “China, India ready to deepen their economic ties.” The Chinese media noted that despite Modi’s refusal to be party to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the summit provided the ground for China to enhance multilateral cooperation among BRI member countries.

Lessons from around the world. One of them that anyone who marries Imran Khan can expect to be ex-spouse. Second: Imran Khan swings both ways. Third: Trump’s marriage with Kim is vague. Four: War-games are like bedroom-games. They provoke, help balance the balance!

It was no Reagan-Gorbachev moment, nor was it some earth-shaking leap toward permanent peace. But contrary to what you might be hearing or reading, the Trump-Kim summit did achieve some net positives…or, at least, potential ones. Many liberal commentators and media personalities are so eager to oppose whatever Donald Trump says or does, however, that they are rushing to declare the summit an essential failure, or worse, as a cave to Kim Jong Un.

Those who say Modi and Shah failed big-time in post-poll machinations in Karnataka wait! Post-government formation, trouble is dogging the ruling Congress-Janata Dal (S) alliance. The slip is showing. The ladders on the Congress-JD (S) stockings are unravelling. Like silk usually does under stress.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh says that one unfortuate fallout of the Emergency was to bring the RSS into the national mainstream via its fraternal outfit, the Jan Sangh, the BJP’s predecessor, which resisted Indira Gandhi’s draconian rule and later merged into the ruling Janata Party.

Only a month has passed since the results of the Karnataka assembly elections were out on May 12, but for the Congress Party, this has been the period of great learning about the dynamics of coalition politics. Congress led by Rahul Gandhi has become more sober and practical in dealing with the regional parties as also the smaller parties whom the Congress leadership did not take into account earlier. Rahul Gandhi is certainly a changed man now and he has come to the conclusion that the Congress has to enter into alliance with the maximum number of anti-BJP parties to take on the might of saffrons led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the coming 2019 Lok Sabha elections.