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Call it an irony of fate or, maybe, his tryst with destiny, Palaniappan Chidambaram, the country’s four-time finance minister, is in a mess. Chidambaram has been chargesheeted by his once trusted Income-Tax Department for allegedly making investments in foreign assets and not disclosing them in tax returns. Last week, Enforcement Directorate (ED) charged his son Karti in Aircel-Maxis case before a special court in Delhi. The 4,500-page chargesheet also highlighted P Chidambaram’s alleged role in the case. Earlier, the income-tax department had filed as many as four prosecution complaints against Chidambaram and three of his immediate family members — wife Nalini, Karti and daughter-in-law Srinidhi — before a special court in Chennai under section 50 of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.

‘You left all too sudden…’ says the June 15, 2018 front-page of Rising Kashmir, the words etched on a black & white picture of journalist Shujaat Bukhari, editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir. All too sudden was also the killing of rifleman Aurangzeb, abducted and killed while on his way to a furlough to celebrate Eid with his family.

The Bristol Old Vic Production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, currently being staged at Los Angeles, is a masterful rendition of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece about the human condition. The British cast is led by the venerable Jeremy Irons, who won an Oscar for 1990’s Reversal of Fortune, and Lesley Manville, who was Academy Award-nominated this year for portraying Daniel Day-Lewis’ sadistic sister in Phantom Thread.

Climate Change implies significant variations in temperature, wind patterns and precipitation that may occur in cycles over decades, hundreds, thousands and millions of years; sometimes these changes may be random occurrences. These result in rain or hail, snowfall or extreme weather events like thunderstorms, cyclones, tornados etc. We have witnessed such events in much greater frequency in recent years.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The time for tinkering is over. A quick surgery alone can save the Congress in Kerala, reeling under the twin setbacks it suffered within the space of 10 days.

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.