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The ongoing challenges faced by Indian Muslims extend beyond the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency, and Development Act, 2025, the legislation that replaces the Waqf Act of 1955. Central to their fight is the urgent need to uphold their right to live with dignity and to safeguard their religious, cultural, and customary practices.

US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus, recently visited Lebanon. During an interview with the LBCI news outlet, Ortagus stressed the importance of disarming Hezbollah. This statement from a senior US diplomat has sparked a new debate about the disarmament of Hezbollah, which has been demanded for a long time. In January this year, the Lebanese parliament elected a new president, former army chief Joseph Aoun.

LONDON: Trump’s 90-day tariff reprieve spells 90 days of geopolitical turbulence, US bullying and the threat of war. All three have been constant features of the period of US “unipolar” power, especially since the beginning of what even US presidents have termed the “forever wars.” But Trump’s aggression is global.

Just as Donald Trump’s tariffs had shaken the world and the financial markets, a sudden brake on their implementation had equally shocked leaders to market sloggers as much. President Trump had equally abruptly pushed back the time when his “reciprocal” tariffs were to kick in. He deferred it by ninety days and following that the markets had momentarily surged. He had stalled the tariffs for all countries, but China.

Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s just released book ‘Soumitra Chatterjee and His World’ is perhaps the first authoritative biography in English of the great Bengali icon, who was not just the chosen on-screen face for Satyajit Ray, featuring centrally in fourteen of his twenty-eight feature films, but also a writer of plays, a director, a poet and the pro-active editor of one of Bengal’s prestigious literary magazines “Ekkhon”. In his younger days, Soumitra was sought after by the youth of Bengal for recitation programmes, while in his last years, he focused on painting, and many of works got appreciation from eminent artistes like Jogen Chowdhury.

NEW YORK: It's a telephone call that US President Donald Trump has been waiting for endlessly over the last 48 hours, waiting for the Chinese supremo president Xi Jinping to call and negotiate the 145% tariffs he has imposed on the red country in a battle of wits and ego trips unsurpassed in history of a clash between two global leaders wanting to assert their supremacy over each other and display their might and power and arrogance.

Despite the Union Government’s claim that social security coverage has been doubled under PM Narendra Modi government within three years from 24.4 per cent in 2021 to 48 per cent in 2024, there has been steep realtime decline in assistance under National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) since 2014-15 which aims to provide social security and welfare to old age, disabled, and widowed individuals.

Alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror-attacks mastermind, Tahawwur Rana, the Pakistani-origin Canadian is up against the brag "Modi hai toh mumkin hai". Rana's planning took the lives of 166. Now, he is here in flesh and blood and the feeling one gets is that Rana is headed for the boot-hill!

The Ninth Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held at Tegacigalpa, capital of Honduras on April 9 concluded its deliberations of the 33 member regional body by calling for increased political and economic collaboration between the member nations through the synergy in their respective economies. The declaration emphasized the need for close cooperation in trade, commerce and investment amongst the member nations for getting benefits from the current global trade war.

NEW YORK: Not even the reality show La Casa de los Famosos, a spin-off of Big Brother, managed to surpass the audience of the first televised Council of Ministers in Colombia last February. Millions of Colombians watched live as some ministers criticized President Gustavo Petro, another lavished him with praise in a tone resembling a declaration of love, and other cabinet members exchanged reproaches.