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People of India’s National Capital Delhi rose to see the city covered is such a suffocating thick layer of smog that almost all weather-monitoring stations fell into red zone in the morning on October 23, 2024. With it more areas moved into severe level of air pollution. By noon, the Supreme Court of India pulled up Centre for framing ‘toothless’ environmental laws, apart from criticizing Haryana and Punjab for failing to control stubble burning, one of the chief causes of yearly worsening of air pollution in Delhi.

RIYADH: The nine-day India festival organised here by the Ministry of Media under it's Global Harmony Initiative will strengthen relations between India and Saudi Arabia.

KOLKATA: “We have no inhibition in socialising over a bowl of soup or a cup of tea or coffee; but thereafter it is ‘thus far and no further for us’. We have our long-standing demands and we are firm on pursuing those”, important Kuki and Naga leaders told IPA when asked about the meeting the Union home ministry held in New Delhi on Tuesday, October 15 with Manipur MLAs representing the Kuki-Zo-Hmar, Meitei and Naga communities in the strife-torn state. The brief statement of the ministry on the meeting called it a quest for peace but it was very economical on details. The statement was silent on the absence of chief minister N Biren Singh from the meeting.

Months of unrest and violence leading to change of the government in Bangladesh is still taking a toll on its economy and its geopolitical neutrality. Recent floods in August and October have further pushed the country to the wall, making food prices rise by 20% in recent months.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wants eligible Tamilians to have larger families. He said he was speaking in jest, but such childish jokes don't draw genuine laughter. Who is Stalin to offer unsolicited advice, asking "why not have 16 children"? He wasn't alone, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu spoke first, saying couples having more children will be rewarded.

Probably we could not perceive that the moral crisis in our society has deepened to alarming levels until we heard the news of rape and gruesome murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata. The junior doctors in West Bengal are continuing their movement largely demanding proper Inquiry and rapid trial of suspects, safety and security at hospitals, updating infrastructure at Government hospitals and thus improving the quality of patient care.

TEL AVIV: The Communists of Palestine and Israel have agreed that “Only by establishing a sovereign Palestinian state will there be peace and stability in the region. Stop the war in Gaza and Lebanon now!”

Jeremy Corbyn, the British Member of Parliament and former Leader of Labour Party has called for building united front of Leftwing forces in Europe in order to fight the rightwing forces which represent racism and take position against the immigration. Corbyn elaborated on his idea of jointly fighting the right forces in Europe at the annual conference of the left wing PODEMOS of Spain last week end in Madrid.

It is good to note that the proposed India-UAE food corridor has already roped in a third partner, Israel. The project is expected to eventually involve the United States as well. The US was a key initiator of the historic four-nation I2U2 virtual summit in July 2022 bringing together leaders of India, Israel, the UAE and the US to promote joint investment in food, water, energy, transportation, health, and space. The complex tri-nation food corridor requires the commitment and cooperation of all the partners and other related stakeholders as well. The corridor promises to contribute significantly to food security for the three countries and serve as a model for similar initiatives globally. The US is expected to benefit from its participation in the corridor as the country looks to bolster its strategic presence in Asia.

Who will be the next President of the BJP? The suspense is building up as the current President, J.P. Nadda, is on an extension, and the party is looking for a new leader. The party has grown enormously, from its early days, when it had only two members in Lok Sabha after 1984 elections, to now having Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the country for a third term. It currently has 18 crore members and aims to add another nine crore during the ongoing membership drive. The signal came when Nadda was taken into the Modi 3 cabinet and made the leader of the Rajya Sabha. It was clear that there would be a successor to Nadda very soon.