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India’s Spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, is facing more scrutiny due to growing claims of its international operations, including alleged assassinations and meddling in foreign affairs during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term in office. Experts believe that, during Modi’s decade in office, India’s capability of gathering intelligence overseas has greatly improved. This follows significant boost in resources and operational freedom of RAW.

The Maharashtra elections for the Lok Sabha is at its zenith. The INDI-Alliance is banking on Maharashtra to give the BJP-led NDA a run for its money. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is banking on his name and face for winning Maharashtra and making it “abki baar 400 paar”. The Maha Vikas Aghadi expects an undercurrent of electorate support to deprive Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “pipedream”. For Maharashtra’s 48constituencies,,the fifth phase on May 20 is the last one.

WorldSteel in its latest short-term global outlook report says about China: “The outlook for 2024 is uncertain. The real estate market and exports will continue to exert negative pressure on steel demand and it might contract in the absence of additional government support measures.” Steelmakers in the country will be under incessant pressure to take a close hard look at production volume and new capacity commissioning as continuing weakness in construction activity, particularly building of new houses and rekindling of trade frictions resulting from very high exports are starkly evident.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress leaders in Kerala are back at their bickering game again. That is the unmistakable message emanating from the sordid goings on witnessed during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Adding insult to injury is the ‘decision’ of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran and his supporters to resist the moves to oust him from his position.

LONDON: Labour’s “six first steps,” the priority actions it will take when in government, are testimony to the shrivelled state of the party’s ambitions as well as of it’s long post-Corbyn march to the right. Voters looking for determined action to improve their circumstances and address the ills scaring society will look in vain.

WASHINGTON: In early 2021, Cubans faced a triple crisis. Since 2017, Donald Trump had decreed 243 presidential measures to make the long-standing US embargo tighter than at any time since the mid 1960s. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the problem by closing Cuba’s borders to tourism, a major source of hard currency. Meanwhile, in January 2021, the long-awaited fusion of Cuba’s challenging dual currency system generated worrying uncertainties and rising prices for many.

The Supreme Court decision to declare the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of news website NewsClick as illegal has reignited the debate on the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual liberty. While Purkayastha's release is a positive development, the court's reasoning raises questions about the potential for continued arbitrary arrests under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

In the context of the US presidential election, economists and political scientists are all wondering why the ground performance of the American economy is not boosting incumbent Joe Biden’s popularity.

By announcing outside support to INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress Supremo Mamata Banerjee has just expressed the opposition’s belief at the pick of election campaign for the fifth phase that India is heading for a hung parliament. Election campaign for the fifth phase will end on May 18, and election will be held on May 20. What made Mamata to announce outside support is TMC’s overwhelming performance in the first four phases in West Bengal.

Narendra Modi cannot speak nowadays anything which even approximates the truth. His latest false utterance is in an interview after having filed his nomination in Varanasi. Modi said that when he talked of “those who have more children”, he had not meant Muslims. He further went on make the astounding claim that “The day I do ‘Hindu-Muslim’, I will not be eligible to stay in public life”.