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With the Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange talks stalled, Israel and its hardline US supporters have stepped up long-standing efforts to discredit Qatar, the main mediator between Hamas and the Israeli government.

Though RSS-BJP clan has wonderful track record of convincing people on their deceptive and false narratives, such as they convinced many of Ganesa drinking milk while actually going down the drain, they seem losing confidence on this skill this time, which is more than obvious in their two-fold parallel electoral strategy: First, pushing spectacular performance narrative under PM Narendra Modi in the last 10 years; and Secondly, raising the pitch for their communal Hindutva agenda as a fall back and their only hope.

Ministry formation is on the rocks in Pakistan after the February 8 elections produced a fractured mandate. Major political parties went scurrying to cobble together a majority coalition even though Imran Khan's PTI despite winning biggest share of seats and emerging as the largest party in the National Assembly was not accepted as the winner by PML-N and PPP, the two other major political parties.

Certain politicians you never get to know enough to make sense of them, why they are in the game and will they rebound after sliding into a career recession. Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya is one of them. This man resigned from his post in Samajwadi Party on February 13 and hardly anybody reacted, his innings over, there was nothing “Yashasvi” about him to classify as noteworthy, except that there was a time he consolidated votes like very few politicians could in the caste-ridden political landscape of Uttar Pradesh.

"The Telegraph reports that the Policy Exchange warns of the emergence of seabed warfare, highlighting the potential for Iran-backed militias to intensify their actions in the Gaza conflict." A recent report has issued a warning that Houthi rebels might target the underwater internet cables of Britain.

Barely five years ago, the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) found itself mired in a crisis with no end in sight. Things had started to go wrong in May 2019, when the press obtained hidden-camera footage of FPÖ chairman and federal vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache apparently drunk and high on cocaine during a vacation in Ibiza. He was shown promising political favours to a Russian heiress (actually an actress involved in a sting operation) if she bought Austria’s biggest tabloid and turned it into a mouthpiece for his party. Within twenty-four hours of the video being released, it had brought down the federal government — a coalition between the FPÖ and the center-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) — and forced Strache’s resignation from all political functions.

The verdict was passed when 36-year old Novak Djokovic, a colossus in the world of tennis lost to 22-year Jannik Sinner at the semi final of Australian Open recently. It confirmed the judgement of the crowd which passed the "beginning of the end" verdict when Carlos Alcaraz (19) blew him off the Wimbledon turf last year.

It is difficult to understand why the government is silent on job creation while it has been continuously bragging on record infrastructure spending year after year. For fresh job seekers, opportunities are shrinking regularly. The constant growth of unemployment for both men and women is becoming a cause of worry. Currently, the country’s annual GDP expansion may be the highest among the large economies, but going by the unemployment figures periodically churned out by independent agencies it looks more like jobless economic growth. Infrastructure expenditure is directly linked with employment.

Indian elections are intricate and complex events that involve millions of voters and multiple political parties. These parties rely heavily on contributions from individuals and corporations to finance their campaigns, as funding is crucial. A lot of black money also circulates during elections.

The wrath of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud fell on the man at the centre of the Chandigarh mayoral election controversy, Presiding Officer Anil Masih, whose surreptitious glances had made the CJI lose his cool nearly a month ago when he had blurted out in indignation, "Why shouldn't this man be prosecuted?"