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Congress-Left Front alliance in West Bengal received an unexpected jolt following the defection of Sagardighi MLA Bairon Biswas to ruling Trinamool Congress. The shake-up coming days before an Opposition meet against BJP in Patna has put the alliance forged in the summer of 2016 under a scanner.

The latest Sachin Pilot-Ashok Gehlot patch-up will last till June 8 when disqualified Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi returns from his trip to the United States where the Congress scion will be raising yet another front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi like he had from London the last time he had gone abroad. The Pilot-Gehlot imbroglio will till then simmer on the back-burner like it has been smouldering for years.

BJP has broken its legs in Karnataka assembly polls when it fell into the pitfalls of majority politics. The party, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left no stone unturned to polarize Hindu majority votes in their favour, but miserably failed. BJP’s loss, if translated into Lok Sabha seats, would be about 17 seats, out of 25 they had won in Lok Sabha election 2019. BJP seems to be almost driven out from the Southern states having 129 Lok Sabha seats. Political outcome from communal cauldron of BJP was disheartening for them.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a swift move, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala has decided to move the Supreme Court challenging the Union Government’s decision to drastically cut the State’s net borrowing ceiling(NBC) on market borrowings for 2023-24.

The first Everest climbers families took their person bond and love for the mountains to a new high on May 29, 1953, seventy years after that great achievement by tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who became global icons during that period.

Saudi Arabia has removed anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli references from Islamic studies schoolbooks, according to an Israeli textbook watchdog.

Much was expected from the recently concluded summit of group of seven countries the G7 which included USA, UK, France, Canada, Italy, Germany and Japan. Since the world is faced with serious threat of use of nuclear weapons during the on-going Russia Ukraine war, there was a feeling that the G7 will come out with a clear cut commitment and time bound strategy for nuclear disarmament. The summit had special importance as it was held at Hiroshima, a city which faced the catastrophic impact of the first ever use of atomic bomb on human population. The final communiqué released after the summit, the ‘Leaders’ Declaration’, as it is called, however does not cite their explicit commitment to take steps to abolish nuclear weapons as a matter of urgency.

There is a marked slowdown in the containerized exports from India, attributed mainly to a decline in consumer demand for Indian goods in the US, EU and the UK markets, according to data from Container xChange, a leading online platform for container logistics. This trend has impacted the volume of orders received by Indian exporters, resulting in a notable setback in the country’s export performance.

Narendra Modi’s yearning to be acknowledged as the world leader (Vishwa Guru) has landed India in a unpleasant quagmire endangering its identity and credibility built over the years amongst the global fraternity. The longing was so acute that he even ignored the conventional wisdom to realise and at the same time to do some comprehensive analysis of the factors which conjure US or China or Russia to have India on its side.

New Delhi: Promising young hockey striker Mumtaz Khan says to represent the country at the International level is a dream come true for her adding" everyone wants to represent India and win a medal for the country, and I am no exception."