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Victory Day, celebrating the surrender of Nazi Germany in Second World War, should be an occasion for international unity. Time zone differences mean a surrender effective from 11.01pm Central European Time on May 8 1945 is celebrated on May 8 in the West and May 9 in the East, but it was the same victory, won by a people’s war in which the “big three,” Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, played the main military role.

A hundred year old story has become a hot topic in China, which is finding sympathies among young people. It has been trending on the Chinese internet. A short video based on the story was viewed over three million times. It has become a huge favourite in a musical format. So much so, that The Economist magazine has picked up the topic for a short and crisp report as well.

The Turkish opposition candidate challenging incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently addressed the nation in a pair of viral videos — including the most widely shared social media clip in Turkish history, which is Twitter’s most popular video outright since the start of 2022. With a typically avuncular twinkle, Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu freely admits to being a member of Turkey’s Alevi religious minority and accuses Erdoğan of “slandering and stigmatizing” the Kurds to win election votes.

Decreasing investment in maternal and newborn health has stagnated the progress in preventing premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies globally, due to which death befalls on one every 7 seconds. Indian mothers and babies remain most unsafe both in number and its share in global deaths.

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was the last political stalwart to jump into the Karnataka electoral showdown and predict the Congress will get the Karnataka electorate’s thumbs up in the May 10 assembly elections results of which will be out by May 13 afternoon. Pawar based his projection on hearsay because the NCP was battling its own demons and Pawar was nowhere close to Karnataka to be nearer to hazard a guess.

Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee's recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year's Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk by many among his party faithful; the Opposition leaders cutting across ideological divide will be dismissing it as tall talk.

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh shirking of his moral accountability to resolve the differences between the two communities Meities and Kukis, and instead blaming the “prevailing misunderstandings between two sections of society” on the issue of inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category has been primarily responsible for the current genocide which claimed not less than 80 heads.

May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in the midst of the devastations caused by the raging second world war. So much has been written in Bengal as also outside, both in India and abroad by the scholars about the multifaceted genius of Tagore that there is little scope for writing anything new about this great Indian.

Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar surprised friends and foes alike with his sudden decision to give up the presidency of his Party recently, only to withdraw it after three days. It ultimately became a storm in a teacup.

New Delhi: Chennai teenager Geoffrey Emmanuel, despite a high-side crash in qualifying session, went on to complete his debut race in the first round of the FIM Wd Championship JuniorGP at the famed Circuit do Estoril, Portugal on Sunday.