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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are striving hard to find a consensus candidate as the NDA chief minister in Bihar. , but the Mahagathbandhan has struck a major psychological blow to Modi and Shah by creating a Coordination Committee headed by the RJD leader Tejashvi Yadav, the leader of opposition in Bihar assembly. This decision of the opposition leader is in fact virtually leaves no space for any speculation about the opposition candidate for the task of CM. CPI(ML)-Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said the formal announcement would be met after some time. They are not in a hurry. The next meeting of the opposition leaders would take place on May 4.

KOLKATA: Eight months after the change of power in Bangladesh, Dr M. Yunus, Chief Adviser to the interim government, has not yet been able to win over major pillars of political power, including leading political groups/parties or the armed forces — to his side.

Saudi Arabia’s recent sweeping crackdown on immigration violations and a sudden tightening of visa regulations, particularly targeting 14 nations including Bangladesh, signals more than just internal security enforcement. Behind these actions lies a mounting strain in Saudi-Bangladesh relations-now further exacerbated by the controversial arrest of Bangladeshi actress and model Meghna Alam, reportedly at the informal behest of the Saudi ambassador.

Who won and who lost? The anti-waqf amendments lobby claims the government was forced to eat crow and give an undertaking to protect the status of notified and registered Waqf properties, including the all-important waqf-by-user properties. The government also had to promise not to appoint any non-Muslim to the Waqf Council or waqf boards till the final verdict.

Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser to the interim government Dr. Muhammad Yunus is presently in the midst of his diplomatic triumph by successfully outreaching to the major countries of the world including the two super powers. After having a major success in getting all the support from the Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing in the last week of March this year, Dr. Yunus on April 17 Thursday received two important delegations-one from Pakistan and the other from the US Government. A third military delegation from Russian Navy is now in Chittagong on a four day visit. There was never such flurry of diplomatic activities in Dhaka in the recent past.

The Supreme Court has delivered a truly historic verdict, which protects the federal principle and declares any action taken by a Governor to thwart the will of the state legislature as unconstitutional. The 414-page judgment delivered by a two-member Bench of the Supreme Court, consisting of Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan, has boldly called to account the misuse of the Constitutional post by Governor R N Ravi of Tamil Nadu, who withheld assent for Bills passed by the state legislature.

Donald Trump has put off his proposed tariffs by ninety days; but countries like India have to respond to Trump’s measures whether now or after ninety days. These measures are not just an episodic act. Trump clearly threatens with tariffs any country that dares to act in a manner not approved by him; he is weaponising tariffs to assert US hegemony, quite apart from using them for economic ends like raising domestic activity and reducing the US current account deficit. We are in short witnessing a new phase of world capitalism; and for countries like India to pretend otherwise and carry on with “business as usual” would be absurd. “Business as usual” had brought great suffering to the working people of the country even in its heyday; to persist with it in the new situation will bring even greater suffering and even greater subservience to American dictates.

The architect of first path breaking event that heralded the new socialist society, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was born on April 22, 1870. According to laws of historical materialism, or following the materialist concept of history, Socialism follows capitalism. Whichever socio-economic formation replaces the former stage is always higher. Socialism is also higher than capitalism and superior to it. It is always the result of evolution of productive forces. It takes a new route while in transition. This transition from the industrial to higher levels of industrial organization is always according to historical materialist stance in full.

At a time when several international health programmes across the countries have been adversely impacted after withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) following an announcement by President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, the finalization of the international agreement on pandemic reached yesterday April 16, 2025, brings new hopes creating a history.

BHOPAL: The politics in Madhya Pradesh has got fresh heat with the confrontation between the Congress and the pro-BJP Baba Ramdev. The Congress veteran leader Digvijay Singh issued strongly worded statement against Baba Ramdev. Not only that, he went to the extent of filing a complaint against him at the police thana.