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The four-day visit of the eight-member team of the Communist Party of China in Kathmandu, led by Liu Jianchao, the new head of CPC’s international liaison department, as well as a meeting with the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center),Pushpa Kamal Dahal, at the latter’s residence in Khumaltar both constitute the unmistakable message that CPC looks forward to a left (read pro-Beijing)-leaning combine to win in the national elections. However, it must be noted that before meeting the CPN (Maoist Center), Liu had separate meetings with Prime Minister SherBahadurDeuba and the minister of foreign affairs, Dr Aryan Khaki, in addition to the CPC team’s dialogue with the President of National Assembly of Nepal, Biddy Devi Bandar, chairman of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) Madhya Nepal and the party’s senior leader, Jalap Nat Chanel. Suffice to say that Beijing isn’t putting all of its eggs in one Nepalese basket.

At the core of a US policy debate over the merits of President Joe Biden's pilgrimage to the Middle East lies the question of how best to ensure regional stability and protect United States interests.

BOSTON: Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Roe v Wade judgment of 1973. SCOTUS issued its decision with regards to the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Centre (Mississippi). Abortion rights will cease to be a federal affair from now and it will be left to the individual states to decide. States like Florida, Texas, Arizona, and Mississippi have already passed or introduced strict laws banning abortion after six to fifteen weeks of conception, thereby criminalizing abortion. At least 26 states, all governed by the Republicans, are ready to follow suit.

India is entering into a major cost of living crisis due to multiple domestic and international crises, which included soaring food and energy prices, rising poverty, joblessness, endangered food security, disincentive to farmers growing food articles, and lopsided policy interventions. The way the government is responding to the issues lack holistic approach, and problems are being responded to on adhoc basis with little temporary success to less number of people than really in need, which further contribute in exacerbating the cost of living crisis.

The rupee hitting new lows has become a monotonous regularity. The currency has fallen in the relentless climb by dollar, subjugated any resistance offered by other currencies, including the euro, which has fallen to its 20-year low, fast approaching the highly embarrassing parity in the wake of a crippling energy crisis brought about by Putin's Ukraine war.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympics medallist PV Sindhu, World Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth will spearhead 10-member strong Indian Badminton team at the the Commonwealth Games to be held at Birmingham from July 28 to August 8.

Lucknow: Major opposition parties are busy in overhauling their organisations to take up the challenge of BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. No opposition party can match BJP in terms of its organizational muscle power. So soon after the state assembly election, all leaders and workers are engaged to prepare for next election. BJP is always in election mode.

World Population Prospects 2022 has revealed that India ran faster in population race to become largest populated country in the world in 2023, four years ahead than estimated in 2019, bringing unprecedented challenges which needs to be converted into demographic advantage with planning and action at war footing, or else will land into perilous conditions.

An unprecedented political crisis has arisen in Sri Lanka, leading to the breakdown of constitutional governance. Unorganised angry protesters, who are deeply affected by economic meltdown, have forced two Prime Ministers Mahinda Rajapaksa and his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign, and have driven out the executive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to high sea before storming the presidential residence in Colombo.

The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But there is no doubt that by fielding Murmu for the office of president, Modi has put Sinha in a very tight spot.