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Indian Armed Forces through its ‘Operation Sindoor’ has avenged the gruesome killing of 28 innocent Indians in Pahalgam by Pakistan-based terrorists by demolishing nine terror-training camps across Pakistan past midnight in the early hours of 7 May. The terminology “Operation Sindoor” has wider and deeper connotation. It meant to finish off the terrorists who had wiped out the sindoor (vermilion) of Indian women. Significantly, this is the first major military offensive against Pakistan after 1971, which witnessed the creation of a new nation, “Bangladesh”.

The émigré communist journals arrived clandestinely into India from the beginning of the 20th century. The first communist journals from within the country also made their appearance. In all these publications, Marx and Engels appeared as the ideological ancestors of Bolshevism. Since then, the communists and their followers were the principal propagators of the teachings of Marx and Engels in India. Some non-communist members of the academic profession also took some initiative.

It is now official. After waiting for a few days since Donald Trump diluted the U.S. tariff rates for China and announced his intention for talks, China confirmed on Wednesday morning that a high level Chinese negotiating team will be visiting Switzerland for four days beginning May 9 to hold talks with the U.S. high level delegation led by the treasury secretary Scott Bessent. This was a result of back channel discussions carried out in the last few days by the two offices of President Trump and President Xi Jinping.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came up with the name 'Operation Sindoor' that targeted terrorist hubs in Pakistan. Modi sat through the night monitoring 'Operation Sindoor', named for the 'Hindu widows' of the Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistani terrorists snuffed the ‘Sindoor’ of these women and 26 Hindu men were killed. A Nepalese citizen was also killed for being a Hindu!

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and chairperson of the main political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) returned to Dhaka on Tuesday May 6 on the eve of the completion of nine months of the interim government headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Khaleda who was ailing for long and was not allowed to go abroad for medical treatment during the regime of Sheikh Hasina, was allowed to go to London for treatment by the interim regime.

The gesture of Supreme Court judges declaring their assets is at best, symbolic and, at worst, a distraction from the deeper and more systemic issues that plague the system. The declaration itself does not and cannot constitute a meaningful solution to judicial corruption, especially when the mechanisms for oversight remain weak, opaque, and riddled with structural loopholes. The immediate provocation for this move—the discovery of burnt currency at the residence of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma—has added urgency to the narrative, but urgency is not the same as effectiveness. If anything, this incident highlights the gaping holes in the system and the inadequacy of the current means of accountability. It took a fire to bring out this specific problem, but fire can in no way be a solution to expose corruption!

Remembering the dehumanising stories with all their bestialities, the compelling human ethos undefeated, stands victorious over the terror. This one truth alone has the right to wear the crown of thorns as humankind moves on, evolving ever, always.

Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has once again proved that in times of uncertainty, the electorate prefers the comfort of continuity over the seduction of change. With 65.57% of the national vote in the May 3 general election, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has emerged not just with a victory but with a historic reversal of a long-standing electoral trend: every new prime minister before him had seen a dip in PAP’s vote share at their first test. Wong, however, has turned that tide - and decisively so.

NEW YORK: According to a new analysis by Swiss Re Institute, insured natural catastrophe losses globally could reach $145 billion this year, primarily driven by “secondary perils” such as floods, wildfires, and severe thunderstorms. This follows a five to seven percent long-term annual growth trend, the institute said.

India has emerged as the second most attractive destination for Japanese investors in Asia, after Singapore. It surpassed China, the most attractive place for Japanese investment in Asia for over four decades. Hitherto, India was eighth in 2020 in terms of getting investment from Japan.