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NEW YORK: The victory of the Liberal Party in the Canadian general elections held on April 28 is a big relief to India and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the NDP led by the Sikh extremist Jagmeet Singh suffered a big defeat losing its earlier capacity to influence the ruling Liberal government presently led by the Prime Minister Mark Carney.

We have heard of the headless chicken flopping about. And of those days of 'Jhatka' when headless bled in plain sight. On Tuesday, April 29, a sketch of a headless torso in a kurta-churidar ensemble of rare finish and finery hit the scene. Whose headless torso was it, who stood inside the 'Kurta' and the 'Churidar'?

Cement along with some other big polluting industries is being included in the national emissions trading system (ETS). A leading Indian cement producer says: “We are closely watching carbon capturing work by our counterpart in China and other pollution mitigating work done there. The common goal for the world’s two largest cement makers is to progressively reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.” Pressured to comply with environmental regulations in an unfavourable industry outlook marked by falling cement prices telling on margins, the industry consolidation gains in momentum.

Asia and Pacific region’s energy mix is central to achieving global net-zero targets, but it has a 20 per cent higher emission intensity than the global average. The rising energy demand, reliance on coal power generation, energy import dependence, and depth of energy-intensive manufacturing, and hard-to-abate sectors such as aluminium, cement, shipping, and trucking even make the region’s energy transition more challenging.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The much-hyped BJP’s Christian outreach programme in Kerala has suffered a severe setback, thanks to a self-goal scored by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

KOLKATA: Two dates – May 1 and May 3 – have assumed significance this time round in Manipur as organisations working for promoting the cause of Kukis, Zomis, Hmars and several others, which together work to realise shared objectives, have chalked out programmes that are directly related to May 3, 2023 when ethnic clashes between the Manipur Valley-based Meiteis and the aforementioned tribals inhabiting the Hills. The widespread violence, the trigger for which was the issue of ST status for the Meitis, who account for an estimated 53 per cent of Manipur’s population, continued for many months and the state eventually came under President’s rule on February 13 last year.

The United States of America President Donald J. Trump has completed his first one hundred days in office in his second non-consecutive term on April 29, Tuesday amidst continuing global disorder over his chaotic policies — unilateral tariffs hike, failure to establish peace in Gaza with Israeli killing spree continuing unabated and the U.S. economy is yet to adjust to the turbulence in the global economy set off by Trump's very own moves.

The politics in India in the week past in the aftermath of Pahalgam terror attack has laid bare a troublesome political and social Faultline. Internal harmony in the country, which is a prerequisite in overcoming the threats and challenges offered to us by the terrorists and our neighbour Pakistan, is seen broken. Sentiments ran high both at political and social levels, many of them reduced themselves far below the mature and measured response that is required to deal with such a situation we are entrapped into.

'India that is Bharat' has never been more 'Hindu' than at this point in time. The signs of the elusive 'Hindu Rashtra' are showing, starting with the India-Pakistan 'Mahabharata' in the offing. The war will be fought on Hindu-Muslim lines and is the direct fallout of an anti-Hindu diatribe of the Chief of Army Staff of an Islamic Republic.

From 1836 to 1844, the Chartist movement started in England. It helped the working class to take a political role. It was also a time when in 1847-48, Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto came out interpreting the role of the working class, concretising it in a general form, and soon it was applied in whole of modern history. In 1848 and 1850, it became more concretised during the class struggles in France. Working class no more remained amorphous. It was emerging as a strong force in the world history, developing its own strategy and also tactics, and in the process became a conscious historical class. The entire process was traced and analysed with a concrete application of materialist conception of history. For the first time, the concrete role of the proletariat was identified.