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Lynching over the ‘gaumata’ is back in currency and poll-bound Haryana is where it has returned with a vengeance. In one incident, a Class 12 student was mistaken for a cow-smuggler and shot dead by a group of gau-rakshaks. In another incident a Muslim migrant from West Bengal was brutally lynched in a Haryana village for allegedly consuming beef. Now, his fellow travellers haven't stirred outdoors. They want to return to the safety of West Bengal ASAP.

Balochistan, the biggest province of Pakistan is on the boil. Ever since August 25, Majeed Brigade, a guerrilla group of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) launched attacks at six different spots, it marked the end of the lull before the storm.

LONDON: German regional elections amplify a message we’ve heard loud and clear from Britain and France already this summer: the far right is a rising danger. The Alternative for Germany (AfD’s) first place in Thuringia (it came a close second in Saxony) is especially alarming given the Nazi-channelling antics of its serially offensive leader in the state, Bjorn Hocke.

Democratically elected governments often think their electors are idiots. They may have good reasons to build such a notion as a good number of them don’t deserve to be there in terms of their personal background and characteristic traits. Many of them are booked for even criminal offences. Voters have little choice in the selection of candidates. They go to polling stations to vote for candidates, who could be political liars or manipulators. The candidates are often chosen by their electors sold on false promises.

In its hundred years of long journey, the RSS leadership did not appear to be so scared and insecured as it is feeling now, in the post Lok Sabha electoral verdict of 2024. Rahul Gandhi is the nightmare. His politico-ideological agenda challenging the philosophical base of RSS’s politics of Hindutva has unnerved the RSS to such an extent that it had to convene an all India co-ordination meeting of all its frontal organisations to evolve a strategy to counter him.

BJP’s attachment to Ayodhya is not emotional, but land and profit related greed, said Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. The allegation can’t be simply brushed aside, given the way land in around Ayodhya is being acquired and transferred by the government to their own people in the name of development of the temple town as well as the pressure being exerted by the land mafia over the common poor people to sell their land to the rich persons. May Lord Ram, the god, save the poor, from their lands being planned ultimately to go to the rich.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is working to expand on a two-track basis. The first is by recruiting influential leaders from other parties, particularly Congress. Although this may involve a small number of leaders, their influence is significant. Second, the party is focusing on enrolling a large number of new members.

China has just celebrated the 120th birth anniversary of Deng Xiaoping, the man who is the creator of modern China. Mao Zhe Dong had founded the Communist Party of China —ubiquitously the CPC— and swept away centuries of cobwebs in the country. He was the maker of Communist China. But Mao had committed huge excesses and with his idiosyncratic ideas inflicted unbelievable costs on the country.

Recently, President of India Droupadi Murmu expressed her anger and anguish on the issue of the alleged rape and murder of a young lady doctor in Kolkata. But she hardly referred to the numerous criminal assaults on women and girls who also became victims of the horrible offence committed against them in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states around the same time when the Kolkata crime took place.

The Supreme Court’s recent judgments granting bail to Delhi minister Manish Sisodia and others in the Delhi excise and similar cases mark a significant shift in how the judiciary approaches money laundering charges, particularly those pressed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The rulings not only highlight the evolving judicial perspective but also shed light on the court's broader stance regarding the principles of bail and detention.