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United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under immense scrutiny for her family’s incredibly profitable stock trades as the U.S. Congress considers a ban on its members, their staff, and families from swapping securities. She is presiding over what could be her last term as Speaker, if Republicans get their way, with historic unpopularity ratings. And to top it all off, she has seemingly decided on a whim to pay a visit to the island of Taiwan.

The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri by the US intelligence network is more about the lethal capacities that the US has developed than the elimination of one person. al-Zawahiri was singled out and killed so precisely that not another person in his extended household in a Kabul safe-house had died.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation which has largest representation among the left parties in the Bihar assembly is planning to initiate a process of uniting all left parties of the country including the CPI and the CPI(M) in a common platform along with other secular forces to fight the BJP and the RSS both through mass actions as also coming Lok Sabha elections.

Foodgrain crisis is set to further aggravate in India. Earlier, the heatwave conditions impacted the wheat crop leading to less production and procurement enforcing wheat export ban on May 13, and now deficit rainfall has caused a decline of rice cultivation by about 13 per cent so far.

Destitution, bankruptcy, mass famine! Some rightwing folks desperate to see the back of Joe Biden are predicting this for America. They do not like the President’s “dementia” and are not hailing Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking on the People’s Republic of China in its own backyard. One of them has come up with a slogan resurrected from the ashes: "It takes nine meals to anarchy!" He was talking of meals disappearing from the plates. His dire prediction apart, there’s no chance of neither anarchy nor mass famine; at least not in India.

Parliament has been witnessing a standoff between the government and the opposition over the issue of price rise and inflation, with the opposition demanding urgent debate on the issue and the Modi government showing the inclination to go to any extent, including suspension of over a scores of members belonging to the opposition parties, to prevent such a discussion taking place.

New Delhi: India women's quartert wrote a new script winning a gold in Lawn Bowls while men's table tennis team defended their title as the country picked up two golds and a silver on the fifth day of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) on Tuesday.

Mamallapuram (Tamil Nadu): Young Grandmaster D Gukesh caused a big upset by defeating former World Championship challenger Alexi Shirov as India B shocked Spain 2.5-1.5 in the 5th Round of the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: India will aim for full points as they take "tricky" Canada to book their place in the Semifinals of the Men's Hockey tournament at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.

New Delhi: India suffered their first defeat in three outings as they went down to England 3-1 in the Women's hockey tournament at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.