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Brazil which plays a key role in transforming the politics of the Latin American region is undergoing a big churning. This was most evident in the last one week as thousands of citizens staged massive rallies in all the major cities of the country on Saturday after a judge of the Supreme federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against the far right president Jair Bolsanoro in the covaxin scandal. For the first time, there was demand for the impeachment for the President from the crowd.

Many diplomats who now keep watch on strategic shifts in Afghanistan and around are deeply worried over the CIA forecast that the Afghan Government will in all probability collapse within six months after the US troops withdrawal. Apparently, the syndrome is manifest .as in less than 48 hours after Friday 14 districts fell in the north-eastern Badakhshan province .The list of fallen districts is on the rise. The Taliban control is to date extended to about a third of all 421 districts and district centres of the country. Fleeing of over thousands of Afghan soldiers to Tajikistan when Taliban forces have captured more territory across Afghanistan's rural areas, lends some credence to the CIA viewpoint.

It has been around a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the world. India has also not been spared of the pandemic’s wrath. Over the last few months, there has been significant discussion on how the Indian economy has been affected by the pandemic, including issues like a negative growth rate, rising unemployment, and increasing non-performing assets, with few optimistic voices of recovery speckled in between.

Since the start of COVID-19, the pandemic has seriously impacted at least 60 per cent people from the bottom on the scale of income in every country. Only a little more spending would have prevented millions of them from falling into poverty and great human tragedies, but we could not do so. A look at the spending world over on social protection during March 2020 to Mid-May 2021 reveals a distressing sign in South Asia with largest number and percentage of people suffered in India.

At a time when the opposition should have had an easy run in U.P. in the aftermath of the Yogi Adityanath government’s mismanagement of the Covid crisis which set the alarm bells ringing in the RSS and the BJP camps, the poor performance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress in the district council presidential elections of the panchayats has come as a surprise.

The government decision to disband the Ordnance Factories Board (OFB), under the department of defence production, to convert and regroup its 41 units into seven wholly-owned corporate enterprises may or may not change the business fortune of these factories, but it will certainly reshape the more-than-three centuries old history of new-age armament manufacturing in India pioneered by a Dutch firm, Ostend Company, in 1712 with the setting up of a gun powder factory at Ichhapur, near Kolkata.

New Delhi: Former captain Zafar Iqbal has cautioned the Indian Hockey team against being complacent because he feels that Olympics is totally different than other tournaments.

Countries around the world have again demanded at the United Nations that the United States lift the blockade of Cuba that it has been imposing since 1962. On June 23 2021 in the 29th vote at the UN general assembly on the issue of the US blockade, 184 countries supported the Cuban resolution calling for its end. Only the US and Israel voted against, while three other countries — Brazil, Colombia and Ukraine — abstained. All of Israel, Brazil, Colombia and the Ukraine can best be described as US “puppet” states when it comes to international affairs.

Recognising that migrant workers are often excluded from the ambit of the food security net under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all state governments to formulate schemes to provide rations to migrant workers who do not possess ration cards. The court has directed the Centre to allocate dry food grains to states for the schemes. The apex court also directed that provisions of dry grains and cooked food through community kitchens must continue as long as the COVID-19 pandemic lasts.

Mission “remove Mamata Banerjee from office” launched by the union home minister Amit Shah has reached to the flash point and to give the final thrust to the operation the BJP leadership today sacrificed its Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat. Today he handed over his resignation to his party bosses in Delhi four months after taking charge and ahead of polls next year in the state.