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World is engulfed by oil conundrum. OPEC is no more in hegemony to stir oil shock. The global political conflicts and bi-polarization led the world oil price shock slipped from the Arab clutches.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat taking out time to condemn the sordid incident of rape and murder of a woman medic, after two months of its happening, exposes his hypocrisy. What is also inexplicable is he had taken more than a year to speak on Manipur genocide and mass rape of the women there, but it took only two months for him to shed crocodile tear on the decay of the cultural ethics. No doubt Bhagwat, not even his biggest pracharak Narendra Modi, can only do it.

Haryana has delivered a historic verdict. Never before has any party come to power for three consecutive terms. Everyone, from ground reports to exit polls, predicted a massive majority for the Congress. How did the BJP managed to pull off such an impressive victory?

World economy is in transition, so the world of work. The transition to a sustainable and green economy requires workers to move out of carbon intensive jobs to green jobs. Since green jobs are associated with wage premium – 7 per cent premium for men and an even higher premium of 12 per cent for women –men’s and women’s labour supply may not meet the demand.

Just a week before the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Israel was rattled by a barrage of missiles fired by Iran. This came in retaliation of the Israeli assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and a key ally of Tehran. Israel vowed to attack Iran brutally but even a fortnight after the Iranian attack, there are no signs of any Israeli retaliation. Meanwhile, the world wonders apprehensively, what is holding Israel from carrying out its threat.

Man arrested near a Donald Trump rally had two guns and fake passports. Vem Miller, 49, told police he wasn't out to harm Trump. The suspected wannabe assassin was on his way to a Trump rally in Coachella, California, a state which would rather vote for Kamala Harris than waste it on Donald Trump. Suffice to say that Trump had no business to rally support in California, which is no country for Trumps.

At the recently concluded annual ASEAN Summit, member nations called for “an immediate cessation” of violence and the creation of “a conducive environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and inclusive national dialogue.” The conflict between Myanmar’s military government and armed rebel groups, whose size and number have grown significantly since the coup in 2021, has resulted in widespread violence, displacement of civilians, and a deepening humanitarian crisis across the country. The five-point peace plan offered by the ASEAN a few months after the coup was never implemented by the ruling Myanmar military.

LONDON: Peace campaigners have slammed NATO’s dangerous nuclear war games which began on October 14 in the North Sea. Dubbed Steadfast Noon, the exercise will run for two weeks.

The U.S. Presidential elections on November 5 have assumed unusual significance in the shaping up of the future of Bangladesh which is presently ruled by an interim government headed by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. In the last two weeks, hectic activities were on in both Dhaka as well as in Washington DC and New York by all the contending parties- the chief adviser Dr. Yunus, the main opposition and the aspirant for heading the post election government BNP and the disgraced, now politically shunned ousted ruling party Awami League to explain their respective viewpoints on the Bangladesh developments to the US political establishment covering both the ruling Democratic Party and the opposition Republicans.

In a countermove to INDIA bloc’s caste census promise, the ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra taking clue form BJP’s gain in Haryana has decided to take the OBC politics in the state to a new level on the eve of Vidhan Sabha elections likely to be announced soon. How much this decision will benefit the Mahayuti allies – BJP, Shiv Sena (Shinde) and NCP (Ajit Pawar)? Or Will INDIA bloc’s caste census promise still work for MVA allies – Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharad Pawar)? Answer to such questions lies in the future, but the moves and countermoves have just rekindled OBC politics in the state.