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In the catastrophic context of Hamas-Israel conflict, China had stepped forward to mediate between the parties. Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, discussed the conflict situation with officials in Washington, perceiving the fear of a wider regional war. The US counterpart has assured full support for working with China to find a resolution. President Xi Jinping has dispatched his Middle East special envoy, Zhai Jun, to the region to meet with Arab leaders.

In these days of political significance, ‘appeasement’ is the word, the favourite of the rightwing to beat the leftwing with –- who in turn, while disapproving of appeasement, openly embraced Muslim minority appeasement for electoral dividends. Other minorities like the Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and Parsi are considered too politically insignificant for appeasement though they get their share wherever they are in a position to make a difference to the seats count.

Not a thick line separates praise from sycophancy and obsequiousness in Indian politics. Remember the then Congress chief Dev Kanta Baruah's "famous" one-liner "Indira is India."

The growing strength of far-right politics across Europe demands analysis as well as condemnation. It cannot be wished away.

China’s is staring in the face of a possible financial sector crisis, with its largest privately owned non-banking financial company unable to meet its obligations. Zhongzhi financial company, having widespread exposure to China’s real estate sector, has failed to honour its obligations to its investors and defaulted.

As the exit polls of the four states, where the elections to the assemblies were held this month, send a distressing signal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personality cult, that was painstakingly built over the last nine and half years by the RSS and its frontal organs, has failed to carry along the voters, the Sanghis being forced to rethink its old strategies and come up with an alternate approach.

The accident at the Silkyara tunnel where 41 workers got trapped, has exposed not only vulnerability of such happenings but also poor state of emergency preparedness to deal with such accidents. It is generally the poor workers who are affected in such situations. Only in case of large scale hue and cry or when the stakes are very high on some other accounts, such accidents go either unreported or eventually leave the families of workers to keep on running from pillar to post for treatment if the person concerned survives or for compensation if the worker dies.

Ever since militant group Hamas’s most audacious attack ever to be launched from Gaza blindsided Israel on October 7 this year, people have been questioning who the brains are behind masterminding this deadly strike. Notwithstanding their varied and checkered backgrounds and antecedents, they all have one thing in common: They are all on Israel’s ‘most-wanted’ list as targets of assassination!

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has forcefully rejected the false claims being made by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the Centre’s financial assistance to the State Government.

It would be presumptuous to say that the elections to the five-state assemblies are a semi-final clatter for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; but one thing is certain that the peoples’ verdict for these elections will outline the political future of Rahul Gandhi.