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International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided to pursue a warrant of arrest against Myanmar military leader General Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity. The atrocities committed against the Rohingya people have gone unpunished far too long. Leaving survivors in limbo, it sent a wrong message that perpetrators can escape accountability. ICC's decision gives credence to enforcement of international justice.

WASHINGTON DC: Fouled up weather forecasts. Staff shortages slowing services. More workers dying of heat stroke on the job. More pollution, which leads to more asthma and unclean water. Cut down school lunches, with none in the summer. Veterans not getting VA health care. More hate crimes. Weaker labour laws and enforcement.

Electorate of the country has been tossing Congress up and down for quite some time, and the trend is more pronounced in the last one and half year ever since Karnataka elections in May 2023 when people brought the Congress with overwhelming majority throwing the BJP out of power. During this period mood swing of the electorate has been witnessed almost every six months across the country, more particularly for or against the Congress. Setbacks in November 2023 Vidhan Sabha elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, in Haryana election in October 2024, and now in Maharashtra election in November 2024 have clearly shown that the Congress has critical tasks ahead if it wants to take on BJP in the forthcoming elections across the country.

On November 25, 2024, the Supreme Court of India upheld the inclusion of the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble of the Constitution.

Merely an ideological rhetoric for fighting the rightist forces is not enough to motivate the people and build a robust and uncompromising public opinion against these forces, instead the struggle should have an indestructible ideological base. Rahul Gandhi has been consistently describing his new narrative, his campaign against the saffron ecosystem’s communal and divisive policy as an ideological fight, but it is not enough.

Every human has a funny bone. But people fighting among themselves doesn't bring smiles. The Royals of Rajasthan used to fight. And who hasn't forgotten the Battle of Haldighati? Nowadays, there is the Battle for the mosque and the temple. There is Sambhal and Ajmer. There was 'Ayodhya', and there's Kashi and Mathura. In Rajasthan, there is the Battle for the Udaipur Palace!

Ruling Trinamool Congress and principal Opposition BJP camps in West Bengal are studies in contrast. Apart from the former being on a winning streak, party supremo Mamata Banerjee has the last word in TMC while dissenting voices are being raised in the state BJP unit seeking a change at the top as well as focusing on the reasons for increase of its loss of its support base.

NEW YORK: Last week, two major events dominated Brazilian public discourse: the G20 summit, and the exposure of an assassination plot that targeted the country’s president, LuizInácio Lula da Silva.

Another Nehru-Gandhi made her presence felt in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on November 28. — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with her mother Sonia Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi, also Members of Parliament, she makes up the Gandhi trio, a rare constellation, except that Sonia Gandhi is a Rajya Sabha MP and Rahul and Priyanka are members of the Lok Sabha.

The recent events in Sambhal and the deaths of five young Muslim men underline the importance of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, l991 enacted by Parliament in that year. This legislation prohibits “conversion of any place of worship” (Section 3) and provides for “the maintenance of the religious character of any place of worship as it existed on the 15th day of August, 1947” (Section 4). No person can “convert any place of worship of any religious denomination or any section thereof into a place of worship of a different section of the same religious denomination or of a different religious denomination”. The Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute was kept out of the purview of the Act.