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NEW YORK: The fascist danger continues to escalate with Trump’s seeming defiance of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s order to delay the deportation of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as the super salesman of jumlas. Beginning from Jan Dhan account of Rs. 15 lakh for everyone to generating two crore jobs for youth every year, all the hyped up propaganda of the BJP led government since 2014 have turned into a big flop. Even in the last few years, the BJP’s election machinery or the official agencies never mentioned these two promises of the Prime Minister. But his most talked about and ambitious programme was the Make in India announced soon after his take over at the centre, followed by US$ 23 billion Productivity Linked Incentive(PLI) scheme, the flagship of MII programme in 2021. Modi declared that India would be turned into a production hub of the world with the share of manufacturing going up to 25 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2025 as a result of implementation of Make in India programme.

With the US’ Damocles sword of reciprocal tariffs hanging over its head, the Modi government is surrendering instead of resisting. The US President Donald Trump explicitly stated that India would be on the list of countries subject to reciprocal tariffs from April 2, irrespective of its good relationship with the US. The Modi government, instead of meeting this challenge, is ready to reduce tariffs on nearly 55 per cent of US goods and in the process sacrifice Indian interests.

BJP led governments, both in the Centre and Indian States, have been continuing ‘bulldozer actions’ which they claim as doing justice against those people who they make accused in the police FIRs.BJP governments thus become accuser and judge both, which is clearly extrajudicial activity violating the principle of justice itself, and hence are miscarriage of justice. They are even violating the recent Supreme Court directives against demolition of properties of people accused of rioting, arson, and other crimes, without going through any judicial process, and simply by executive orders, which are unconstitutional and illegal.

LONDON: The European Union fears another WAR and has asked its citizens to stockpile enough food and other essential supplies to sustain them for at least 72 hours in the event of a crisis. The EU Commission has said this in new guidance released Wednesday. The commission stressed the need for Europe to shift its mindset, to foster a culture of “preparedness” and “resilience.”

‘Speculation’ is the most common pick-up from the English dictionary. If you don’t know what’s happening, ‘speculation’ comes into play. For journalists to fall back on ‘speculation’ to not to make a point comes natural. Right now, there is speculation that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin doesn't have an inkling on what's happening between the BJP and the DMK, which are “in talks”.

RSS pratinidhi which concluded in Bengaluru last Sunday made a tactical shift from Hindi imposition to learning of English as a “career language”. This was certainly an implicit endorsement of the political line of Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin that demanding linguistic equality is a right, not an offence. This RSS view differs with the line which the union home minister Amit Shah is taking.

KOLKATA: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, had to reconcile with the unwelcome proposition of practically remaining organisationally inactive in Manipur for over 21 months since the outbreak of ethnic violence in that small state on May 3, 2023. But inquiries from informed quarters in Imphal reveal that RSS succeeded in utilising the services of some of its associates and affiliates for reaching out to a fairly large number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in relief camps. The sources told IPA that so far relief materials worth Rs 10 crores have been distributed among IDPs.

NEW YORK: One of the most prominent figures in the early days of 20th century imperialism was U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Under his rule, the United States subjugated the Panama Canal Zone, occupied Cuba, invaded the Dominican Republic, and pursued an almost endless list of other acts of intimidation.

Europe, which has always been vocal about its past history and civilization as well its contribution to the making of the modern world, has never faced such humiliation in the hands of its transatlantic ally the USA in the last eighty years since the end of the Second World War in 1945.The media leak on Tuesday of the confidential conversations between the high officials including the vice-president J D Vance revealed the extent of contempt the Trump 2.0 administration has for its NATO allies in Europe.