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Europe is likely to shoulder the brunt of the fallout of a rapidly escalating crisis over Ukraine. Middle Eastern states could prove to be a close second. That is no truer than for Turkey and Israel, whose management of the Ukraine crisis could determine their ability to protect perceived core national interests.

Tensions over Ukraine have combined with record-high gas prices to raise questions about the long-term security of gas imports through Russian-operated pipelines, giving coal a new place of importance in the energy mix.

The confrontation over Ukraine between Russia and the United States has reached a decisive stage with President Putin recognizing the two breakaway regions Donetsk and Luhansk and soon after President Joe Biden announcing strong sanctions aimed at crippling the leading Russian banks and the financial institutions. The U.S. and the NATO aim at the moment is to drastically weaken the economic power of Russia so that Putin is forced to scale down his demands.

Mumbai: Leading women golfers of the country including Tvesa Malik Amandeep Drall Pranavi Urs and Gaurika Bishnoi will be seen in action in 3rd leg of Hero WPGT to be played at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club here from Wednesday.

New Delhi: Two boxers Nitu and Anamika made it to the quarter-finals while two other Indians crashed out after losing their first round bouts on the second day of the 73rd Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.

New Delhi: Promising striker Sukhjeet Singh will make debut for the country as he is the only new face in the Manpreet Singh led 20-member named by Hockey India on Tuesday for FIH Pro League matches against Spain to be played on 26th and 27th February in in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

The Supreme Court bench led by the Chief Justice N V Ramana will be considering on February 25 the interim report submitted to the apex body by the technical committee set up by the CJI through his order given on October 27 last year to go into the allegations of surveillance using Pegasus software, supposedly by the government agencies. The 12 petitions filed on this issue will come up for hearing also.

The CPI(M) central committee has just released its draft political resolution (DPR) for discussion and adoption at the 23rd congress of the party scheduled in Kerala in April this year. The last party congress was held in 2018 and this DPR assesses the course of developments in the last four years both nationally and globally to enable the party delegates to arrive at the final political resolution which will guide the party leadership in framing strategy and tactics for the next few years till the 24th party congress.

Will too many cooks spoil the Opposition broth? Many players in the national opposition camp are trying to come together ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls against the BJP. You have Congress President Sonia Gandhi attempting to form a united opposition coalition. You have West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee trying to develop a non- Congress non-BJP coalition with the help of Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar. Then you have the Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao who wants to form a federal front without Congress. Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin is the new entrant to this effort.

The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21 in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the future. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels tell us that the future is harbored within things themselves, and that is why it is rational to desire it. So it makes no sense to establish a dualism between the present and the future; if we reasoned according to this dichotomy, then we would be condemned either to desire the impossible or else to suffer the curse of Adam and accept suffering and poverty as divine punishments. The Manifesto instead tells us to take up the tasks we are capable of resolving — and by “us,” Marx and Engels mean not individuals or an aggregate of individuals but a class determined by economic processes.