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Only a day after announcement of the Census 2027, the Union Ministry of Home said on June 5, that the census was put off due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its “aftershock”. How can the Centre say this when it went on conducting many other surveys, mass political rallies, and elections in the country? Census was actually singled out for delay, a delay of six years, obviously strategically. Serious concerns have been raised over the delay and on several other issues, the most serious being related to delimitation.

KOLKATA: Electoral prospects of Trinamool Congress seem brighter in north Bengal post veteran Congress leader Sankar Malakar switching loyalty to the ruling dispensation. For such a decision has been taken after weighing the pros and cons as desertion of this veteran leader is certainly an indication that the ruling dispensation is set to oust BJP from its perch in this part of the state. The decision raised eyebrows in political circles as BJP was also an option for him in this part of West Bengal. But then the veteran Congress leader has his reasons and he stuck to them.

LONDON: The damage Donald Trump has done to the architecture of imperial power is not an accidental feature of an unusually repugnant personality. It has its roots in the real, material conditions of the recurrent crisis in the accumulation of capital and in the projection of capital’s power on the global stage. His behaviour, on the surface, is both childlike in its drive for attention and adolescent in its flawed appropriation of reality. We see in his play a simulacrum of the irrational in art, the random accumulation of elements that defy common sense or established theory. But there is a logic at work.

India has many laws to check pollution, but pollution level in the country is among the worst in the world. The World Air Quality Report 2024 ranked India as the 5th most polluted country globally. Delhi remains the most polluted capital globally with a Particulate matter (PM) 2.5 concentration of 91.6 µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre). Six of the world's 10 most polluted cities and 13 of the top 20 are in India. Another report finds 70 per cent of the surface water in the country not potable. Though there are many laws in the country, the data speaks volumes about the Government’s failure in their implementation.

26 days have passed since the temporary truce in the limited four day war between India and Pakistan taking effect on May 10 this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of his three point doctrine since then, the most important of which is no dialogue with Pakistan unless the ruling regime of Islamabad shuns terrorism. Pakistan Prime Minister on the other hand is claiming as usual that his government had no role in the Pahalgam massacre of April 22, Pakistan strongly believes in fight against terrorism. Pakistan is ready for bilateral talks to discuss all the pending issues including terror.

‘NOT blood: But Sindoor Flows Through My Veins’ – these exact words by Prime Minister Modi defined his signature style in launching the post-Sindoor campaign blitzkrieg. What else could he or his government have done in response to the grave challenges the country was faced with. Transparency and introspection have never been the forte for this government.

NEW YORK: The differences between US President Donald Trump and his first buddy tech billionaire Elon Musk, who sunk $288 million of his personal fortunes to get the mercurial Trump re-elected, has now exploded in the public domain with a spat. The bitter attack by the Tesla CEO against the U.S. President’s economic policies indicates that there are differences in approach between the two friends of fundamental nature.

If you happen to have transferred money from your bank account to another, you would in possibility have used the RTGS system. This is known but little is known about the RTGS platform and its evolution.

It was June 22, 1941, when the Nazi forces started attacking the Soviet Union. It was a strategy to shift the burden of war and resolve the inter-imperialist conflicts at the cost of Soviet Union. Imperialism was keen to decide the eternal contradiction that always evolved in capitalism whenever socio-economic forces moved towards establishing a socialist system. Dialectics was also explicit in the imperialist initiative to prepare for war and also pursue the policy of appeasement with rivals. The purpose was to isolate the Soviet Union in the face of fascist challenge.

Delhi these days is synonymous with demolitions, thanks to Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who is a zealot when it comes to following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diktats hook, line and sinker! And Rekha Gupta, while bulldozing and razing ugly slums to the ground, is also taking 'Operation Sindoor' to lakhs and lakhs of women residents of the national capital, a 'pinch of sindoor' each.