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United States of America’s presidential poll is due in November this year. Various opinion poll forecasted Trump’s returning as President of USA. He is assertive to impose 10 percent tariff on all imports and 60 percent on China. Wave of trepidation looms on Trump’s new approach to the global trade, besieged by protectionism.

At present, the Indian Navy is in possession of two aircraft carriers—the home grown INS Vikrant and Russian made INS Vikramaditya. The navy also has a fleet of 41 MiG-29K supersonic air dominance fighter jets of Russian origin, which it introduced into its fleet in 2010. While the MiG-29 has been sold to many countries, the MiG-29K Fulcrum D variant is exclusively operated by the Indian Navy.

With more sordid details emerging on the goings on behind BJP’s success in cornering the lion’s share of the electoral bonds proceeds in the wake of the unwavering stand taken by the Supreme Court on the issue, the criminal intent behind the scheme’s evolution is becoming increasingly clear.

Indian electorate have their own political mind and they don’t simply believe on the electoral promises and political guarantees being distributed freely for quite some time now by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his chief opponent Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. PM Modi has said all Congress guarantees in the past have fallen flat, while Rahul Gandhi has said trust in Modi is guarantee of betrayal. It is in this backdrop the very reliability of political guarantees has sharply been in focus and is under serious public scrutiny.

India, the world’s largest democracy, has unfortunately been witnessing a backsliding on human rights. It is in this context that the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) will be undergoing its review for accreditation by a jury of its peers which is the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) in March 2024.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections slipping into top gear, Kerala is set for a no-holds-barred and bruising battle. The State is going to the polls on April 26.

In the pictures accompanying the report, everybody is smiling. Even the chubby baby. But behind the happiness, there’s unhappiness. We are talking of ‘Bharat, that is India’ and the World Happiness Report for 2024 which makes sad reading for Indians who have been thrown to the wolves because of a sick ranking in the World Happiness Index. At No.126, India is unhappier than Pakistan and Afghanistan. Worse, the unhappiness comes shining through with all its ugliness. Imagine 900 million unhappy voters lining up across the length and breadth of India in a month from now to vote in a new government for a happier India?

The year 2024 has been marked by a flurry of elections across the globe, each carrying significant weight in shaping the future trajectory of their respective countries and, to some extent, the world at large. Among these pivotal elections, Britain’s upcoming general election stands out as a crucial turning point, especially in the context of post-Brexit recovery efforts.

United Kingdom Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is in a tight spot. So is the Conservative Party which he leads as the general election is inching closer. The political fortune of Sunak and the party he leads cannot be stated to be progressing swimmingly. It seems to have sailed into uncharted waters at this point of time.

There is one question that haunts many viewers of Christopher Nolan’s film on creator of the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – J. Robert Oppenheimer --- which swept the Oscars this year. Did Oppenheimer endorse the use of the bomb on an essentially defeated enemy? And if so, how can we hail such a man as hero? One of the reasons he endorsed it might be because of his ego. He had spent three years building the bomb with his team at a secret facility in Los Alamos,, and he wanted to see the consummation of his efforts. Greatness was within his grasp. Also, he reasoned that the bomb’s power would ensure the end of all wars in future.