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NASA astronaut, Indian-American Sunita Williams, smiled and waved on returning to Earth from somewhere in Space where she was stranded for 286 days. No, Sunita Williams didn't stop in Space to gaze at the sky all around her but because she didn't have control of the circumstances, which is not always the situation in Space. Sunita's extended stay was necessitated due to problems developing in the Boeing Starliner capsule that took her to Space.

“Revolution is the inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is the birthright of all. The labour is the real sustainer of the society. …To the altar of this revolution, we have brought our youth as incense, for no sacrifice is too great for so magnificent a cause. We are content, we await the advent of revolution…” These were the words of Bhagat Singh when he was scattering all over the leaflet that had everything he wanted to communicate to those in power throwing a bomb in the assembly hall, not to hurt anyone, it was just a demonstrative act. It was against the anti-labour Trade Dispute Bill. In his trial in the court, Bhagat Singh had told the court that the revolution for him was not the cult of bomb and pistol, but a total change of society culminating in the overthrow of both foreign and Indian capitalism under the dictatorship of proletariat.

LONDON: Words wilt in the face of the fresh murderous horrors being unleashed on the people of Gaza by the depraved state of Israel once more. Cynically breaking a ceasefire agreement it had itself signed up to, Netanyahu and his cohorts massacred more than four hundred Palestinians today.

Indrajit Gupta, the dedicated Communist leader of India in the last century and an outstanding Parliamentarian dominated the country’s trade union movement and the Left movement for the last sixty years of the 20th century. He belonged to that generation of leaders from undivided Bengal whose sense of patriotism and deep anguish at being ruled by the British led them to search for new path of securing freedom both political and economic. Many of them belonging to the English educated aristocratic families of Bengal were attracted to Marxism-Leninism during their student life in Britain during 1930s and 1940s.

United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke for the Hindu against perpetrators of wrongs against the community and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh reacted almost immediately, challenging Gabbard to provide "evidence".

LUCKNOW: The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is facing tough time to maintain caste balance in the selection of district presidents and state president to make the organisation strong enough to face state Assembly polls in 2027 and panchayat polls.

One lakh Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) connecting around 13 crore small and marginal farmers are getting big boost to be ultimately transformed under the new Union Ministry of Cooperation created in July 2021, though the performance of the ministry has been dismal so far, and there were huge gaps in the budget allocations and the actual expenditures.

The recent arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in the United States, an active member of Columbia University’s protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, takes me back to 2016 when student political leaders Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of sedition. A controversy had stemmed from an alleged event at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where slogans allegedly critical of India and sympathetic to Afzal Guru, had been raised.

NEW YORK: In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank of Greenland or physically attacked, or that Elon Musk was offering payments to Greenlandic citizens. These cases were financial scams rather than politically motivated disinformation, but their emergence shows how much interest the 2025 Greenlandic election campaign attracted.

Sidelined by the Trump 2.0 administration and rebuffed by India, Bangladesh interim government is exploring all avenues to rejuvenate the country’s ailing economy by expanding its trade and investment relationship with Pakistan and China. The objective is to reduce the dependence on India in major areas where the outsourcing is possible from these two friendly countries.