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WASHINGTON: This time Democratic senator Bernie Sanders is pulling no punches. The carnage the Israeli military has inflicted upon civilians in Gaza is so appalling that he wants to cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel—offensive and defensive. And that stand flies directly in the face of Democratic President Joe Biden and congressional leaders of both parties, who seek more military aid for Israel in its war on the people of Gaza.

Last week was the birth centenary of Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur whose relentless pursuit of social justice created a positive impact on the lives of crores of people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Bharat Ratna award to him coinciding with his birth centenary. Modi said he never had the opportunity to meet Karpooriji but he heard a lot about him from Kailash Pati Mishra who worked closely with him. He belonged to one of the most backward sections of the society, Nai Samaj. Overcoming numerous obstacles, he achieved a lot and worked for social betterment.

Suddenly it’s raining thousands of jobs for unemployed youths and not just in Russia/ Ukraine war zones or in Israel/West Asia: Germany and Croatia are also on a major hiring spree. The good news for South Asia is that these countries are looking to recruit substantially from India and Nepal.

Despite the steady growth of the electric vehicles worldwide, the awareness that it is well-nigh impossible to replace over a billion combustion cars with EVs in the foreseeable future is increasing. This is leading to calls for ‘more realism and less ideology in energy policy’.

Qatari mediation in the Gaza war threatens to become a double-edged sword. Demonstrators gathered this week at Qatari diplomatic missions in Washington, New York, and Ottawa to express frustration with the Gulf state’s failure to achieve an Israeli-Hamas agreement on a second round of prisoner exchanges.

Was the manner in which the Chandigarh mayoral election conducted a symptom or the disease itself, a crooked system at play? The country’s top court has spoken – the previous week’s mayoral poll in the Union Territory was openly tampered with by a seemingly biased Presiding Officer to ensure the “victory” of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Manoj Sonkar and the defeat of the Aam Aadmi Party's Kuldeep Kumar.

Narendra Modi’s lurid boast on the floor of Parliament that he would be the prime minister for the third time and his party would alone win 370 seats deserves attention. The question is why is he so confident? Are RSS and BJP leaders busy hacking the Lok Sabha elections? Does democracy mean nothing anymore?

New Delhi: Nikhat Zareen and Sakshi Chaudhary began their campaign with contrasting wins at the 75th Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Since the Presidential address in the Parliament is supposed to summarise the government’s achievements and intentions followed by meaningful debate, in which opposition raises points of concern, the Prime Minister is expected to address them during his reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks’. However, in reply to the scathing attack by opposition on government policies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chiefly slammed and lampooned the opposition, indulged in self-praise, and by and large evaded any direct reply to the points raised by the opposition. His reply was just like an election speech on the eve of Lok Sabha election 2024.

At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after breaking away from Congress way back in January 1998 failed to prevent BJP from winning six parliamentary constituencies in north Bengal in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Even as Congress remained a participant in the electoral battle in 2019 polls, the BJP staged a major comeback in Bengal’s electoral politics by winning six Lok Sabha seats from north Bengal.