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The Houthis, a group in Yemen, have a bold slogan “death to America, death to Israel." For many years, their focus was mainly on conflicts within Yemen and with neighbouring countries on the Arabian Peninsula. However, since October, this once small and isolated group in northern Yemen has become involved in conflicts with the most powerful nation in the Middle East and the leading global superpower.

Negative politics does not pay – either in the short term or in the long run. This is the bitter lesson the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala is learning.

Liberation of women from visible and also invisible shackles leads to liberation of the entire human kind. The idea is not new, though not realized even after centuries. She is always the first victim. Of every instance of violence. Beginning with in domesticity to societal injustices, she is the mirror that reflects how far we have arrived so far as our evolution is concerned.

Seat Sharing is the vital component of the electoral strategy, but for leaders of INDIA bloc of Jharkhand, using the forum for espousing the cause of the adivasis and poor and fight for their identity and welfare is the primary mission. Leaving aside one or two seats, the opposition leaders have succeeded in thrashing out the complex issue of seat sharing and are now waiting for the arrival of Rahul Gandhi, with his entourage of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, to formally make it public.

The Congress has appointed YS Sharmila, the party chief of Andhra Pradesh. But Sharmila, who is the politically estranged sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has a rather weak Andhra Pradesh unit of the Congress to fight her brother Jagan, who in turn is fighting anti-incumbency as well as the old warhorse, the Telugu Desam Party’s Chandrababu Naidu, whose ambition knows no bounds, though Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise did clip his wings over the last one decade.

The consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22 will symbolise the merger of State and religion under the rubric of Hindutva. Central to the `Pran Pratishtha’ of the idol of Lord Ram will be the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlining the fact that this is a State-sponsored event.

Ramlalla Virajman in Ayodhya is still at the makeshift temple. Tomorrow, on January 19, He, in the form of a 9 inch idol has been reported to be shifted to His new abode still under-construction, just to be reduced to occupy secondary place in front of the 51-inch RSS-VHP-BJP’s make idol, which is reportedly to be brought into the sanctum sanctorum on January 18, which would acquire the status of the deity after “Pran Pratishtha” on January 22, intended to be given the primary status.

New Delhi: Asian Games gold medallists Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy kept India's hope aluve after securing a hard-fought 21-15, 19-21, 21-16 victory over Chinese Taipei’s Fang-Chih Lee and Fang-Jen Lee in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super 750, at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court order staying the Allahabad High Court decision to appoint an advocate commission to conduct a survey of the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah complex in Mathura does not substantially alter the general approach of the judiciary with regard to the disputed places of worship, which is more in favour of faith rather than other issues.

US Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s third place finish in Iowa means she should be out of the race. But the Indian-origin Republican’s Democrat voters are not ready for her to call it quits, as yet. Her dollar-donors also have skin in the game. Nikki Haley spent more dollars per vote than Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump but Haley used the dollars to woo Democrat voters not the Republican flock.