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LUCKNOW: "Sangathan Srajan" Is the new mantra for Congress leaders and workers for building the organisation to face Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2027.Although it is a big challenge for UP Congress leadership to achieve this task but AICC general Secretary incharge of UP Avinash Pande recently announced that within 100 days ,a revamped five-tier organisation will be ready.

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, returned from wherever he was marking New Year from and promptly stirred the hornet's nest, which is from where the BJP, RSS and the “Indian State” are forever in conflict with the Congress, the party which fought and won freedom for India from the British on August 15, 1947, India's Independence Day.

The global economy is set to face significant challenges in 2025, with 56% of chief economists surveyed expecting conditions to weaken, according to the latest Chief Economists Outlook from the World Economic Forum. Only 17% foresee an improvement, pointing to heightened uncertainty in key regions and the need for measured policy responses worldwide.

WASHINGTON DC: Only days before he will leave office, President Joe Biden on January. 14 finally removed Cuba from the U.S. list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism” (SSOT). Designating Cuba as a terrorist state has long been a part of the U.S. blockade against the socialist country, imposing specific coercive measures on trade and imports.

The latest decision by the Modi government to grant sanction for prosecution of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia marks yet another chapter in the ongoing narrative of central agencies being leveraged for political ends. At its core, the move highlights a pattern that has become increasingly familiar, where the deployment of institutions ostensibly meant to uphold justice is perceived as a tool for advancing the agenda of the ruling party. The context and timing of this development further underscore the strategic motivations behind such actions, raising serious concerns about the independence of these institutions and their role in safeguarding democratic principles. ‘Caged parrot’ has become part of the contemporary political idiom.

On January 14, 2025, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat declared that India achieved its ‘True Independence’ on Ram Mandir’s consecration day in Ayodhya, that he called ‘Partishtha Dwadashi’. Ram Mandir was consecrated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2024, but Bhagwat denied even the date as ‘true independence’ day of India, and said it was Paush Shukla Paksha Dwadashi which fell on January 11 in 2025.

The global body of the multinational CEOs World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually in January end at Davos in Switzerland to discuss the global issues of development and technology but this year the 2025 conclave of WEF is going to witness an unusual affair of Donald Trump participating in the discussions with the delegates via live video link setting his agenda for high tech use in a world being shaped by geopolitical tensions, economic shifts, and technological advancement.

Only a week before Donald Trump taking over as U.S. President on January 20, defence ministers of five European NATO member nations came out officially against U.S. President elect Donald Trump’s suggestion for raising defence spending to 5 per cent of the country’s GDP. The countries are Germany, Britain, Italy, France and Poland. The first four countries are major military spenders in Europe.

It is not the carnage yet, but horror keeps unfolding in various ways. One among them is cow vigilantism. The attack is real and fetal, and as usual the justification is irrational and horrific. A decade and more have gone by, but there has been no end to it. Our composite culture remains in shreds as the majoritarianism has occupied the centre stage. Since 2014, cow vigilantism has become one of the primary weapons that is used on real or false grounds against Muslims, by extremist Hindutva Vadi groups. One recent example has been annihilation of a 37- year old Muslim named Mohammad Shahideen Qureshi, in Moradabad and it was again Uttar Pradesh.

Riven with factionalism made worse by a rank and file lowering in morale, West Bengal unit of BJP is not a political outfit which has some reasons to fulfil its promise to emerge as the ruling dispensation of the state post 2026 Assembly elections. Nowhere matching its once grandiose description of the "Grand Old Party", the state Congress is just another political outfit which also ran.