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The average Jameel in India has delivered instant triple-T to his wife by smartphone, whatsapp and email. And not a single average Jameela has stepped forward and said she was thrilled at getting talaq-e-biddat.

The 45th US President Donald John Trump’s 50-word tweet, accusing Pakistan of siphoning US $ 33 billion-plus aid to Afghan terrorists giving them ‘safe heaven’ and ‘given us nothing but lies & deceit’ has been volleyed back by Pak Minister of Foreign Affairs Khawaja Asif in twitter: ”He can hire a US based Audit firm on our expense to verify this figure & let the world know who is lying & deceiving.” This rebuff was expected as Special Assistant to the Pak Prime Minister Dr. Musadik Malik assured that Islamabad would respond to US in line of international diplomatic norms. But keeping up diplomatic dignity, the Pakistan Foreign Office summoned US Ambassador David Hale and lodged its protest against President Trump’s tweet.

In recent weeks, certain decisions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have kept political circles guessing on issues such as floor coordination in Parliament, putting up a joint front against the Centre, or the anti-triple talaq legislation sponsored by the NDA government.

The tragedy of farmers and peasants has become so grave during the Modi government that even the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has to finally raise the issue with the BJP leadership. At a recent meeting of senior RSS leaders, attended by BJP president Amit Shah, it virtually pulled up the leadership and expressed apprehensions that the issues of economic distress and unemployment in the farm sector could damage the electoral prospect of the party in the 2019 general election.

Ever since the degeneration of politics into a virtual cesspool, as Amitabh Bachchan called the profession after a brief period of entry and exit, Indians in general have been fascinated by the idea of a knight in shining armour wielding a broom to clean the Augean stables.

The output and quality of exports from India has decreased in the first five months of the GST regime in the country, says the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce after assessing its impact on exports.

A Tamil nationalist party called Naam Tamihzar has told Tamil superstar Rajinikanth – in whom “politics has entered” – to storm no Tamil bastion because he is not Tamizh. Well, to them should be asked the question, who was MGR and where from came Jayalalithaa?

Tamil super star Rajinikanth’s punch line in his super hit film Kabaali is “Naan Vandthttenu chollu (Tell them I have come.)” On Sunday, wearing a spotless white kurta and pants, Rajinikant announced to his millions of fans: “My entry into politics is certain”, thus ending the two-decade-long suspense.

BHOPAL: Year 2017 was a highly stormy year both for the government and the people of Madhya Pradesh. Unprecedented happenings took place during the year. Most important was farmers’ agitation. The agitation was so violent that the police had to kill about six agitators when the situation went out of control. The angry farmers and their supporters destroyed public property including buses, vehicles etc. In a bid to defuse the crisis, the chief Minister announced help of Rs. One crore each to the families of diceased.

With British Prime Minister Theresa May unable to handle effectively the Brexit issue and the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn emerging as the most favoured candidate for the top job, a section of the Labour leaders opposed to Corbyn’s entry into the office of the prime minister have launched a sinister campaign against him.