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On July 23, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld a lower court decision that said Mohammed Yunus must pay taxes on $7 million of donations he made between 2011 and 2014 to three trusts — Professor Muhammad Yunus Trust, the Yunus Family Trust and the Yunus Centre. The apex court ruled that these donations are not exempted under any existing laws. Yunus has been asked to pay a hefty $1.4 million in taxes.

WASHINGTON: Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing the United States and the People’s Republic of China mutually agree to cut military spending, shifting the money to combatting global warming.

New Delhi: India overpowered Malaysia 9-5 to enter the final of the Women’s Asian Hockey 5s World Cup Qualifier in Salalah, Oman, on Monday.

New Delhi: Neeraj Chopra, once again, scripted a new chapter as with a Javelin throw of 88.17m, he became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the senior world Athletics championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The growing power tussle between the Centre and opposition-ruled states over the management control of the University Grants Commission-funded universities in states threatens to ruin the sanctity of the country’s higher education system. Chief ministers of a number of opposition states and centrally-appointed governors there are at loggerheads with each other over appointment of university vice-chancellors (VCs). Both sides want political appointees of their choice. Recently, Tamil Nadu’s state assembly passed two bills seeking to transfer the governor’s power in appointing VCs of 13 state universities to the state government. Last year, West Bengal’s state legislative assembly passed a bill to make the chief minister the chancellor of all state-run universities, replacing the governor. The bill is yet to get the governor’s consent. The states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand and Rajasthan have laws that underline the need for concurrence between the state and the governor on the appointment of university VCs.

India successfully landed the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon last week. It is the fourth country to do so. Congratulations to ISRO for this achievement, which fills every Indian with pride. Scientists worldwide are especially interested in the Moon's South Pole region.

There has been growing debate on Prime Minister Narendra Modi assertion on resilient and inclusive supply chain in 15th BRICS summit, held at Johannesburg, leaving aside the major global issues. He led the global issues less focused in the summit which crippled world geo-politics and economic template, including long drawn Ukraine war, US-China face off, dragging US Dollar used as weapon for sanctions, traumatizing global energy balance and widening gulf between global west and south.

Police state like conditions exist. In violence-hit Nuh, where there will be a G20 Sherpa meet, the communal environment has gone from bad to worse and the Manoharlal Khattar government appears to be in cahoots with the VHP. Never has India with her myriad of diversities stumbled from one lousy situation to another lousier situation. Journalists and other recording artists including the myriad of social media nuisance have cornered balcony seats to record disturbances under the plethora of ‘double-engine ki sarkar’.

In Germany, a high-profile trial has drawn the attention of the media and reignited debates around the political nature of the country’s judiciary. On May 31, the Higher Regional Court of Dresden sentenced Lina E., a left-wing activist, to five years and three months in prison for attacks on high-profile neo-Nazis. Public debate surrounding the case was quick to paint her as the alleged figurehead of a nascent “left-wing extremism.” What has been dubbed the Antifa-East trial constitutes one of the most significant cases targeting someone associated with a left-wing political organization since the Red Army Faction, the West German militant urban guerrilla network that carried out bombings, assassinations, and bank robberies from the 1970s to the early 90s.

After making inroads into school education, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is striving to take control of higher education, particularly functioning of the universities. RSS has already set up Shiksha Bharti, an educational wing to control and define the school level education. However, it has also started the process for creating a separate wing to chalk out educational content and behaviour and to suggest policy decisions related to higher education.