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The joint declaration issued by the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on the eve of the Victory Day on May 9 upholding longstanding friendship to pursue mutual benefit and win-win outcomes in the new era carries major significance in the present period of global tariff war as also continuation of the war in Ukraine which is still unresolved despite efforts for truce in recent weeks.

Without declaring it, war has effectively broken out between India and Pakistan. The hostilities have spun out of control as both countries have expanded their targets spread far out into the country.

This 184th Birth anniversary of Tagore on May 8-9 (25th Baishakh – Bengali calendar) coincides with the Victory Day-meaning the end of German fascism 80 years back Also this is time when India and Pakistan are engaged in a war once again. It is in fact the perfect moment when one would want to focus on his vision of true internationalism, which has been mired with the jingoistic ultra nationalist feelings that has been whipped up by a part of our political society.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is now wooing powerful Brahmins of Uttar Pradesh beside consolidating hold on PDA( pichda, dalit and alpsangkhayak) to unseat BJP in 2027 assembly polls. Akhilesh Yadav is deliberately playing Brahmin victim card during the regime of Thakur CM Yogi Adityanath to win over the support of powerful community of UP to win the election.

In the run up to 2024 elections Rahul Gandhi in particular talked of the need for caste census. This was supported by many opposition leaders. Congress ruled states and NDA ruled Bihar also carried out the census. This caste census issue was one of the major planks of the opposition's slight revival from being in the dumps in that election.

BERLIN: “No inviting Russian and Belarusian representatives to commemorations” — thus reads a nonbinding directive issued to German government officials by the Foreign Office, with regard to the eightieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Should the situation escalate, the circular continues, states and municipalities should consider calling the police to have Russian and Belarusian diplomats removed from the premises.

More than forty hours have passed since the missile strikes by Indian military on the nine terror camp sites in Pakistan. The situation in both New Delhi and Islamabad is witnessing the same type of preparations indicating that Pakistan is getting ready for another military confrontation with India after the Kargil war in 1999. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a nationwide address on Wednesday night warned India that it will avenge ‘’ each drop of the blood of our martyrs”. Army Chief General Asim Munir along with two other chiefs was authorized to take corresponding retaliatory action against India.

In the early hours of May 7, Indian armed forces launched a military operation called Operation Sindoor, to target about nine sites in PoK and Pakistani territories. There is a consensus across the political spectrum on the need to respond to the barbaric killings of Indian tourists in Pahalgam. The evidence put on record by the Government of India and the representatives of the armed forces, proves the involvement of LeT which is an outfit directly handled by the Pakistani establishment. The LeT is already on the UN’s designated list of terrorist organisations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government has been in the habit of changing definitions to show sudden growth in various sectors of economy without actual growth on the ground. We have seen it in the past how change of status of certain state highways to national highways suddenly pushed up the length of the national highway under Modi government without constructing them. The latest such example has come in the MSME sector.

Stricken deep in grief after the terrorist attack on the innocent tourists in Pahalgam, it was thought that whole India will stand by the aggrieved families of the deceased, particularly with the young women who have been widowed. But the way Himanshi Narwal, a young girl recently married to a promising Lieutenant from Indian Navy who was martyred by the terrorists is being trolled has belied this hope. She is being ridiculed for having appealed for communal harmony and not to make Pahalgam incident an anti-Muslim or anti-Kashmiri issue. She also asked the people not to be violent to the Kashmiri students studying in other parts of the country.