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In the year 2023, Pakistan found itself grappling with an unprecedented surge in terrorist incidents. The Taliban's triumph in Afghanistan has catalyzed the surge, which in turn emboldened and strengthened the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Over the past two years, the TTP underwent a transformative series of mergers, centralizing its organizational framework and recalibrating its operational strategy, exclusively focusing on a war against Pakistan. The ideological and tribal nexus cultivated between the Afghan Taliban and the TTP has conferred an unprecedented level of 'strategic depth' in its history. This has amplified the complexity of Pakistan's struggle against terrorism amidst concurrent political and economic challenges. Interestingly, the genesis of this contemporary terrorism is rooted in a protracted historical perspective that necessitates scrutiny to unearth its foundational causes.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is considering sending its astronauts on the highly ambitious Gaganyaan mission with spacesuits made in Russia, according to a document reviewed by Hindustan Times. There are signs that Russian spacesuits will be used for the Gaganyaan mission, although Vikram Sarabhai Space’s locally produced Intra-Vehicular Activity (IVA) suits are almost finished and being tested.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial inauguration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 will also mark the beginning of BJP’s campaign for Lok Sabah General Election 2024. Religious events, including fetching large number of Hindu devotees to Ayodhya Ramlala Darshan free of cost for the next two months, will be organized as a special feature of this year’s election campaign outside the purview of the Election Commission of India in which large number of RSS-BJP-VHP activists under the garb of Sadhus overtly and covertly will do the work of BJP and PM Narendra Modi who will be seeking for their third term. However, the ultimate political impact will be uncertain, because after showing initial panic, the opposition seems to be firmly opposed the design, as the four Shankaracharyas declared the consecration violation of shastras of Sanatan Dharma.

Recent transporters’ strike against the newly-introduced legal provisions that provide for a 10-year jail term for drivers who don’t take accident victims to the hospital, leading to the death of the victims, throws the spotlight on an issue of immense significance. India has a vast network of well-developed highways and roads and it’s growing. The number of vehicles is also growing at a significant pace. India spends a huge amount of money on oil bills. India’s need for oil defines its foreign policy.

For the past three years, the Democratic Party has carried out a full-court press with the singular goal of undermining Donald Trump’s chances of being renominated: the yearslong media and congressional spectacles around January 6, the series of criminal indictments against Trump, even the recent attempts to use the courts to boot him off the ballot in several states. Instead, Trump’s support within the GOP has only grown, sometimes seemingly directly because of these efforts.

The night before the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr asked his aides for advice about the speech he was due to make the next day. “Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a dream,’” Wyatt Tee Walker told him. “It’s trite, it’s cliché. You’ve used it too many times already.”

India’s population is ageing fast. Elders accounted for 8.6 percent of population as per the 2011 census which was 10.38 crores. No decennial census was held in 2021 on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Country’s population of elders (senior citizens), aged 60 years and above, is expected to grow to 30 crores by 2050, according to the official sources. Growing migration of people from rural to urban areas in search of livelihood, rising nuclearisation of family where none of the spouses wants in-laws, and breakdown of joint family system have strained adversely the traditional family chores or family norms that used to take care of elderly. As a result, elders have been left to neglect and abuses, living a life of miseries, loneliness and indignity.

Specific bilateral connectivity projects linking India with Bangladesh have emerged as the most effective means to ensure future industrial and infrastructural growth in South Asia. Dhaka-based analysts are stressing the growing importance of India accessing its Northeastern states by using the Tripura rail/ road /river linkage through Bangladesh territory, instead of counting on Myanmar to achieve better regional connectivity.

New Delhi: It turned out to be an uneven opening day for the home players at the India Open as World no 9 HS Prannoy ousted world No. 13 Chou Tien Chen while Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen, lost to junior compatriot Priyanshu Rajawat.

BSP national President Mayawati's decision to fight Lok Sabha independently without joining either NDA or INDIA has made BJP and the main opposition in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party, happy. The recent statements of Mayawati that gave the impression that she could join INDIA unnerved the BJP leadership as well as the Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav.