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Muslims live under the increasing threat of Hindu fundamentalism is explicit from what happened yesterday in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Hindu zealots enjoying patronage of the RSS and Narendra Modi resorted to all kind of manoeuvres to foment violence. The gangs of Bajrang Dal cadres and members of the other saffron militant outfits moved around the cities and towns raising slogans which were not all relevant for the auspicious occasion. They even scripted “Jai Sriram” on the walls of some the mosques.

KOLKATA: Even one instance of burial of one victim of violence can serve as a commentary on the ethnic strife-scarred Manipur, which witnessed a fresh bout of violence – though short-lived – on March 8 as the administration under President’s rule proceeded to implement Union home minister Amit Shah’s directive on March 1 that there should be free movement of vehicles and people with effect from March 8.

VIENNA: With European sovereignty under attack from Donald Trump and his national security plunderers, er, advisors—will Denmark eventually capitulate to the orange monster’s protection racket threat to take over Greenland? It is still refreshing to note that there are at least oases of the old continent’s Social Democracy which stand against the ever more powerful encroachment of American neo-liberal domination. One of those oases is Vienna, where the hard-fought gains of the Socialist movement of the 1920s still endure.

The US President Donald Trump, in his first address to the US Congress following his election, has threatened to impose tariffs on countries that he considers are taking advantage of US trade policies. In his list is India, along with Canada, Mexico, China, Brazil and the European Union. Trump has repeatedly named India as a country that is levying exorbitant tariffs on US products. He even called India a ‘tariff king’. Trump threatened that from April 2, he would levy ‘reciprocal tariffs’.

Corporate capitalism in India is today in the grip of crisis. Economy keeps falling deeper. Data predicts further sliding to be a four year low of 6.4 per cent in 2024–25, mainly on account of a poor showing in the manufacturing and services sectors, according to government data released on January 8, 2025.

United States of America’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard will be visiting India early next week in the concluding part of his tour of the Asia Pacific nations including Japan and Thailand. This will be the first visit to India of such a high ranking official of the Trump 2.0 administration to India since Trump took over the presidency on January 20 this year. Gabbard’s talks with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi will have special significance in the context of the present developments in Bangladesh.

Long before Donald John Trump became President of the US for the first time in 2016, he invited the sobriquet maverick for the unconventional way he conducted his business and politics. The world is having a full taste of that in his second term as President Trump has proposed a tariff structure, which the US administration is in the process of implementing causing acute resentment among all US trade partners, including its traditional close allies. Imports of steel along with the base metal aluminium are coming for highly punishing tariff barrier with the US to charge 25% import duty irrespective of the origin of the two metals.

Character and quality of education and health are the basic indices to comprehend the true nature of empowerment and growth of a community. Otherwise too it is known fact education is the Most Powerful Weapon which you one use to change the world. Education provides the wing to fly. A person, irrespective of being male or female, without education is just like a bird without wings. Resorting to euphemism would temporarily conceal the unpleasant scenario in which Muslims survive, but it certainly cannot be a permanent panacea.

The issue of a separate Kosal state in Odisha has got a fresh impetus after senior BJP leader Jayanarayan Mishra called the merger of Odisha’s western region named Kosal with the state a ‘historic blunder’, though the opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJP) has accused the ruling BJP of trying to “divide the state” and BJP has distanced itself from its senior party leader’s remark regarding merger of Kosal region with Odisha.

Pakistan Army's Operation Jaffar Express Clean-up came to a successful conclusion: All the Baloch ‘dehshatgars (terrorists)’ were eliminated in one fell-swoop with not a single body of the killed terrorists to show! Pak Army's Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) told the media. And if that is believable, how about the claim of not a single Pakistani soldier/officer, Special Forces personnel, lost his life cleaning up the "terrorists"?