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At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after breaking away from Congress way back in January 1998 failed to prevent BJP from winning six parliamentary constituencies in north Bengal in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Even as Congress remained a participant in the electoral battle in 2019 polls, the BJP staged a major comeback in Bengal’s electoral politics by winning six Lok Sabha seats from north Bengal.

BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have intensified their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. While the BJP held a series of meetings to formulate strategy for various issues connected with the elections, the Congress has decided to line-up equal mix of youths and veterans for 29 Lok Sabha seats. At present Congress holds a solitary seat.

No one believed when Copernicus proposed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system and the Earth and other planets revolved around it or when Galileo proposed the principle of the pendulum and the law of falling bodies. They were demonised and persecuted because they said something which was against the popular philosophical religious discourse at that time. Science, which in broad terms means inquisitiveness, rationality, urge to discover and invent, to find the truth and not to believe in what has been told even for centuries without evidence. Discussion and debate are the means to reach a conclusion and not imposition or aggression. Therefore many a times there has been contradiction, even conflict between those who believe in the philosophy of divinity & eternal and those who look for the reasons about the happenings in nature.

Mounting stress in the Red Sea—the direct trade route for ships travelling from Asia to Europe—has hit India’s exports of marine products and also high-quality rice to buyers in the United States, Middle East and Europe as prices have skyrocketed.

After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from a meeting of the European Council in Brussels this Thursday, where European Union (EU) heads of government agreed on an aid package in the form of a four-year, €50 billion lifeline to Ukraine.

A 55-year-old teacher, Paresh Doshi, filed an FIR against himself after his wife lost her life in a car crash caused by an attempt to save a stray dog. Paresh Doshi and his wife Amita were returning from the Ambaji Temple in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district when tragedy struck on the Sabarkantha highway. Reports suggest that a stray dog suddenly appeared in front of their car, prompting Paresh to swerve and crash into makeshift pillars and barricades on the highway. The impact was so severe that the barricades pierced through the passenger window, tragically pinning Amita, who was in the front passenger seat.

In times when technology is constantly redefining reality as we know it, it is often hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. So why troll Poonam Pandey for using social media to fake her death; popular FM radio channel Fever for faking its closure; and a leading private bank for releasing a deep-fake video of actor Nora Fatehi?

It is difficult to believe in the 21st century that some small groups of Yemeni Houthi pirates on the Red Sea can bring a $1-trillion-plus annual global trade using the sea route almost to a halt, forcing shipowners and shippers divert the trade through a several times longer route via the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom of South Africa. Sea piracies are nothing new. But few have shown such guts as Houthi pirates indiscriminately attacking cargo vessels passing through the trait with arms, ammunition, and anti-ship missiles. They won’t even spare US Navy destroyers. Cargoes are looted and captured seamen are often thrown into the sea. The escalating Red Sea crisis poses billions of dollars of risk for India. The world mood remains inexplicably defensive. An estimated 12 percent of the global trade passes through the Red Sea.

The convincing victory of the JMM-Congress coalition in Jharkhand assembly on February 5 amidst allegations about BJP’s poaching reports, is a big boost to the INDIA bloc in the present political atmosphere in the country. Chief Minister Champai Soren has now the tough task to run a government for the welfare of the people, especially tribals while doing away with corruption in administration.

The continuing joint demonstrations by the anti-Right parties of Germany in major cities of the country during the week end for the last few months have made its impact on the German political mood as the latest opinion poll has put the voting intention figure for the far right party AFD at around 20 per cent, the lowest in the last six months.