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Sir Garfield Sobers, 89, is no more. He died a week ahead of his 90th birthday. He was indisputably the world's best left arm all-rounder batting left, bowling left fast/spin. His greatest cricketing achievement, the first to score a highest individual score of 365 not out against Pakistan, the first to hit six sixes of six balls.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s announcement last week to return to her country in December this year ending her exile in India, has created big interests in global diplomatic circles, apart from India and Bangladesh. In an interview to the Reuters, she said that she intends to return to her own country voluntarily to face justice and revive her party Awami League. She was candid that she would lead an active political life.

Iran is constructing a dangerous dual-chokepoint architecture across the Middle East’s vital waterways. By coordinating Houthi rebels in Yemen and al-Shabab militants in Somalia, Tehran is tactically moving to dominate both sides of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, duplicating the strategic energy leverage it already holds over the vital Strait of Hormuz.

Youth unemployment rate in the age group of 15-29 years in India has been on the rise since April 2025, when the Union Government had started rolling out new revamped Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data. In June 2026, youth unemployment rate touched a record high in Current Weekly Status (CWS) and reached 16.2 per cent, led by youth female unemployment rate climbing to 20.7 per cent, while youth male unemployment rate stood at 14.6 per cent. In April 2025, youth unemployment rate was 13.8 per cent, 13.6 per cent for youth male and 14.4 per cent for youth female. Since the new series had warned that its data was not comparable with older series, the same is not being done here.

Maharashtra politics has once again been thrown into a whirlpool of speculation after an unusual late-night meeting between Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and NCP state president Sunil Tatkare triggered fresh questions about shifting political equations. What transformed an otherwise routine political interaction into a major talking point was the reported presence of NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Jayant Patil, prompting murmurs of a possible thaw between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Sharad Pawar's camp.

NEW YORK: With just over a hundred days standing between the country and the November midterm elections, the Communist Party USA’s National Committee gathered here July 11-12 with a single overriding message: Everything now runs through the fight to break MAGA’s hold on Congress. That was the frame co-chair Joe Sims set in his keynote, delivered a week after the country’s 250th anniversary.

To view the ongoing conflict in West Asia merely as a war between Iran and Israel, or between Iran and the United States, is to miss its larger significance. At its core, this is a struggle over the future of the international order established under American leadership after the Second World War. One side seeks to preserve global dominance through military power, strategic alliances and political pressure; the other represents an emerging order increasingly shaped by production, technology, infrastructure and economic partnership.

On July 17, Ravi Kishan turned 57, a milestone that crowns one of the most remarkable careers in Indian entertainment. Actor, producer, television personality and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur, Ravi Kishan has reinvented himself repeatedly over more than three decades.

The monsoon session of the parliament beginning next week from July 21 is going to be politically very significant on account of delimitation and women reservation bills, passage of which can alter the political map of the country. Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has said with confidence that the bills will be passed during the upcoming session, while cracks have developed within INDIA bloc in meeting the challenge to block them, as they had successful done in the Budget Session of the Parliament on April 17.

The United Kingdom and India have crossed a historic milestone in their economic relationship with the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement (FTA) coming into force on July 15, 2026, transforming years of negotiations into a commercially binding pact that promises to reshape trade, investment and business opportunities between the world's fifth and sixth largest economies.