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Ever since the Government of India picked up Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to lead an “all-party” delegation Group-5 under Operation Sindoor, the Congress has been under great humiliation. First, because Congress had not sent Shashi Tharoor’s name to the government; Secondly, the government chose him inflicting humiliation to the Congress; Thirdly, Shashi Tharoor accepted the assignment bringing further humiliation to his own party.

Social Media spies are giving sleepless nights to not only intelligence agencies but also to private television channels with TRPs to consider. Hit hard by steadily increasing numbers of YouTubers, these television channels have latched on to YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra arrest on charges of espionage to ask for "government regulation" of YouTubers.

Ideological fatigue and misperception of the issues that guide and help frame the strategies has been primarily responsible for BJP losing the initiative in Uttar Pradesh which was supposed to be the laboratory for its Hindutva alchemy. BJP’s modern ideologue had made Narendra Modi convinced that his ideas have always yielded positive results, and this time his design to take out “Tiranga Yatra” across the country will prove to be an effective tool for arousing a Hindu passion and spread and consolidate the Hindu support base.

LUCKNOW: BSP national President and former chief minister Mayawati once again brought back her nephew Akash Anand as national chief coordinator of the party. Much significance is being attached to high level meeting of party on May 18 when Mayawati created a new post of chief national coordinator and installed her nephew Akash Anand on this position.

It has been a little more than two months when Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati expelled her nephew Akash Anand from the party. But it has been a month when he returned to BSP and has now been appointed the party's chief national coordinator.

KOLKATA: It may well be called the ‘Guwahati Resolution on Manipur not made public’. It all happened in Guwahati on last Friday, May 16 when several Kuki MLAs, senior functionaries of Kuki-Zo outfits and civil society organizations (CSOs) – in all over a dozen persons – deliberated on what should be their future course of action. The conclusion, as gathered by IPA, suggests a hardening of stance on their part with implications for the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA), which is keen on holding at the earliest the second round of tripartite dialogue, as a follow-up of the first tripartite session in New Delhi on Saturday, April 5.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Courting controversies seems to have become second nature to senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha member from Kerala Shashi Tharoor.

It may be good that the latest armed conflict between India and Pakistan ended quickly before it could blow up into a full-scale war leading to massive destruction of life and property and economic disaster in both the countries – maybe more so in Pakistan than in India. However, the abrupt end of the conflict, which seriously damaged Pakistan’s military infrastructure, seemingly due to Pakistan’s possible nuclear threat is a matter of major concern. Of all the nine nuclear armed states, Pakistan is probably the world’s biggest terrorist state that had secretly sheltered the world’s most notorious, violent and wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden in an army cantonment area.

The results of the national elections held on Sunday May 18 in three countries of Europe-Portugal, Romania and Poland have given mixed signals about the political trends in the continent with Right forces consolidating in Portugal while the anti- Right combinations prevailed with narrow margins in Romania and Poland.

The world's attention has been on the Vatican City in Rome for the past few days. The Catholics have made history with the election of Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American cardinal of Spanish descent. He has taken over as the 267th occupant of the throne of St. Peter. This momentous event, the first time an American has ascended to the papacy in the 2000-year history of the Catholic Church, is a significant milestone.