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At a time when Trinamool Congress finds itself between a rock and a hard place in fielding panchayat election candidates in a vast swathe of Junglemahal in West Bengal inhabited by Kudmis, the Left Front has put up candidates from this community in Purulia district for the coming rural polls. In all, 18 front nominees have been fielded out of 45 Zilla Parishad seats in this red earth district.

BHOPAL: June 12 proved to be a day of two major calamities for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan. One calamity was the huge fire which caused havoc in many floors of Satpura Bhawan. Satpura Bhawan is a multi story building which houses offices of several key state government departments. The fire was so massive that it destroyed about 40,000 files. Some of them related to serious corruption cases which are being enquired by Lokayukta and economic offenses wing of Police.

The news item published in the media on 12th June 2023 that an NGO affiliated with the RSS women’s wing, the ‘Rashtriya Sevika Samiti’ has launched a documentary and guidance titled “Garbha Sanskar” to help the women bear customized “Cultured and Patriotic Children” is highly alarming. This is total negation of science and a move to push the society into utter backwardness and obscurantism. Shri Tamilisai Soundararajan the Governor of Telangana participated in the meeting of Rashtriya Sevika Samiti on 11th June 2023 giving it at official colour.

Ayo Gorkhali (The Gorkhas are upon you), is quite a menacing war cry on the battlefield. The Gorkhas have impressed one and all with their courage and fighting spirit. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw paid them the ultimate compliment: “If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gorkha.”

New Delhi: Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu and Commonwealth Games silver medal winner Bindyarani Devi will train in the USA after the Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of the Sports Ministry on Tuesday approved the weightlifters' proposal to train abroad.

New Delhi: Former World Champion PV Sindhu and world no 8 HS Prannoy chalked out straight-game victories over their respective rivals to move into the second round of the Indonesia Open badminton at the Istora Senayan sports arena, in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Former US president Donald Trump faces 37 counts in connection with keeping hundreds of classified documents, many of which are marked top secret, in his possession even after leaving the White House, according to a 49-page federal indictment unsealed on June 9. "It is an extraordinary event that will almost certainly result in a legal, political and constitutional mess", says Jed Shugerman, a journalist and a visiting professor at Boston University School of law. The indictment also named Trump's former valet, Walt Nauta, as a co- defendant, alleging that he entered into a conspiracy with Trump to obstruct justice, withheld documents and records, corruptly concealed documents and made false statements.

At long last, there is some ray of light in the politics of Spain as the fifteen political parties belonging to all shades including green and the extreme Left entered into a historic agreement to jointly fight the right wing parties including the far right VoX in the crucial national elections on July 23.The credit goes to the Spanish communist leader and the deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz who made it possible through her new platform Sumar(Unite) through her ceaseless efforts for bringing unity of the entire Left to capture power by defeating the Right.

Unity on not allowing the thorny “who will be PM face” to play spoilsport with the Patna Conclave has made it relatively easy for cobbling unity among opposition parties. Ambitious opposition leaders are happy they didn’t have to stake claim for the “PM face”. Octogenarian NCP supremo Sharad Pawar took the decision out of their hands when he announced peremptorily that the “PM face” issue would stay on the backburner till after the Bharatiya Janata Party is defeated and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ousted.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi was many things to many people. He was 'Thalaivar" to his cadres, a wily politician to his opponents and a visionary to his admirers. His autobiography 'Nenjukku Neethi ' shows his life and struggle.