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The West is agreeable so long as the world runs by its wits though the world for the West is limited to the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and the Nato-wired European Union. The rest of the planet can go to hell, or remain consigned to conditions similar to hell. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has completely exposed the West, and the western media’s fake-democracy agenda.

India and China would be the most exposed countries in the world to shutting down of fossil-fuel infrastructures in the mitigation pathways to climate change, and if the existing units would continue to be operated as historically, they would entail CO2 emissions exceeding the carbon budget for 1.5 degree C, a new flagship UN report on climate change released on April 4 has warned. It insisted that global greenhouse gas emission would have to peak “before 2025 at the latest, and be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030.”

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: All eyes are riveted on Kannur in Kerala, where the 23rd Party Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is set to begin on April 6.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Kaptaan Imran Khan is in an existential crisis that pushed him personally into a political quagmire. His stature worsened further following the crucial observation by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial during the hearing of a suo moto matter following the dismissal of National Assembly of Pakistan on Sunday by the President Arif Alvi on the prime minister's advice that the NA Speaker erred in rejecting the no-confidence motion. The meaning is clear that reference to Article 5 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan is incongruent.

The ongoing Sri Lanka crisis finds echoes across the Palk straits in Tamil Nadu as refugees have started arriving in the state over the past fortnight. Since the Eelam war ended in 2009, this is the first time refugees have arrived on the Tamil Nadu coast. The crisis has further deepened with the entire cabinet resigning to prevent the anger against them for mismanagement.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] is holding its 23rd Party Congress in Kerala this month, from April 6 to 10. The delegates attending this five-day session will be deliberating on both the national and international situations, and, on the final day, will be adopting a document which will guide the party leadership in framing strategy and tactics for the next three years till the 24th Party Congress, possibly in 2025.

The International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is an annual awareness day, celebrated on March 31. It honours the courage of transgender and non-binary people around the globe, who do not conform to the societal standards of heteronormativity.

In the race to be the first among the opposition leaders for taking on the BJP at the national level, it appears that Arvind Kejriwal has edged ahead of Mamata Banerjee for the moment. The reason is not only the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) impressive victory in Punjab, but also the violence in Birbhum which has tarnished the Trinamool Congress’s image.

Even King Soloman wouldn’t succeed in breaking this stalemate. There is one baby, Chandigarh, and two states claiming to be mothers, Punjab and Haryana, both unwilling to sacrifice the baby or hand it over to the other. By right, Punjab is the "mother" and should get the ‘baby’. Everyone, from Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi, tried to do justice to Punjab, but Punjab remained cheated, and Haryana combative.

Modi’s doubling farmers income by 2022 has miserably failed. There were many hurdles in the way, and chief among them was the faulty and unreasonable policies of the Centre itself. It resulted into a situation in which tomatoes were being sold at Rs 3 per kg and ginger at Rs 5 per kg, even leads the farmers not to pluck their produce as the plucking cost will be much more than the selling price.