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The Atlantic Council, a top US think tank, urged President Donald Trump to prioritize its ties with India to counter Beijing’s growing influence, in a paper, “Transforming India from a balancing to leading power’. Despite this, China was upbeat on Modi-Trump summit before the meet. China’s leading media Global Times hogged with surprise, saying “China could benefit from Trump-Modi summit”. The think tanks and analysts were bogged down by suspense with the Chinese overtone.

LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may have complimented his government for good performance during first 100 days but opposition is not impressed.

West Bengal is again in the news for the wrong reasons, over the glaring failure of the state administration to restore a semblance of law and order in its north Bengal hills during the last three weeks.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath celebrates a hundred days in office, but its report card is a mixed bag. BJP’s electoral sweep in the UP polls earlier this year – where it won a mammoth 312 out of 403 seats – was always going to raise expectations for the incoming administration. Given the size of UP and the breadth of its challenges the Yogi government risks becoming a victim of its own ambitions.

BHOPAL: As far as minority bashing is concerned, Madhya Pradesh is no exception. In many cases Muslims and Christians have been arrested on almost imaginary charges. In one case, the charge of sedition was slapped on a group of 15 Muslim youngsters following the allegation that they celebrated Pakistan's victory in Champions Trophy finals and also burst crackers.

Symbolism is the essence of Indian culture. From touching the feet of elders to show respect to the worship of god, we Indians celebrate the symbols, irrespective of what we do to our generation of elderly people or whatever we end up doing in the name of propitiating the gods. The symbolism must go on. That’s what really matters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who will be attending the G-20 summit at Humburg in Germany on July 7 and 8, has got a good opportunity to meet the Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss about the tensions in the India-China border on the Sikkim side. After a long time, the Chinese media is reminding India of taking lessons from the 1962 war as if the situation is heading in that direction. The Indian army chief has gone to Sikkim on a two day visit and the preparations on both sides do not augur well for the future of India- China relations.

BHOPAL: There is no respite for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister. Even as he was trying to sort out the problem created by the unexpected flood of onions into the procurement centres set up by the government, a series of suicides by farmers in the state has become a matter of serious concern.

It is the same old story. Media reports Chinese incursion across Indian border; some videos are shown. The Indian army denies any incursion took place. As on previous occasions, China ‘warns’ India to withdraw its troops from the territory which the Chinese claim is theirs. New Delhi plays it cool. Even the exact date and time of the face-off are not given. It all creates a feeling of déjà vu. It happened so many times during the UPA regime; it is now happening during the NDA rule.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is refusing to learn any lessons from the developments in the global civilian nuclear power industry in the recent past. Despite the precarious financial position of the US company Westinghouse after the Japanese major Toshiba’s withdrawal from the nuclear power business, Indian government has agreed to involve this bankrupt US company in the civilian nuclear power generation programme as a result of the big pressure from the Trump administration. At the recent India-US summit on June 26, the issue was discussed and the White House came out with a statement that the United States and India are committed to realizing commercial civil nuclear cooperation, in particular through a contract for six Westinghouse electric AP-1000 nuclear reactors to be built in Andhra Pradesh.