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With quota within quota notification for Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation in Telangana, a new phase of Dalit politics in India has just begun. The gazette notification has made Telangana, the first State in India to implement sub-categorization of Scheduled Caste reservation which coincided with Dr B R Ambedkar’s 135th birth anniversary.

NEW YORK: President Donald Trump needs to de-escalate his trade war with China ASAP, US economists feel, as it has reached a point where it could hurt each other's economy so very badly, that recovering lost ground is going to be unreachable, because both economies are intricately intertwined.

Sermons like “One shouldn’t play games with religion. Dharma means devotion, affection, humanity, peace, amity, culture, harmony, and unity” are taught to the school children. It is just reverse in the real life. In realpolitik these amiable words have no relevance. These were the words articulated by West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee just after the Murshidabad communal violence that shook the confidence and conscience of the people of Bengal last week.

The President Donald Trump is going after Harvard University with a vengeance after Harvard chose to reject Trump's "reforms". In the process, Harvard is losing loads of dollars but is also drawing admiration and encouragement from Trump's bete noire, former President Barack Hussein Obama. Trump and Obama are always daggers drawn and share a mutual dislike spanning several presidential terms. It started with Trump questioning Obama's 'birth' in Obama's first term, also the legitimacy of his presidency, and Obama cracking jokes at Trump at a White House dinner.

WASHINGTON: Socialist senator Bernie Sanders is out on the stump again, helping lead, in a big way, the opposition to Donald Trump where other Democratic Party lawmakers have not. And people—tens of thousands of them coast to coast—are responding.

Today, as we remember Babasaheb Ambedkar on his 135th birth anniversary, there is a certain crisis of identity that the Indian judiciary seems to be confronting. On this exact day, a month ago, members of the fire department allegedly discovered piles of burnt currency in the residence of a Delhi High Court judge. Since then, the executive has prominently reframed a conversation on judicial accountability towards that of judicial appointments.

It is good to know that the government is already cautious about the possible increase in Chinese export trade and investment to India to exploit both the local market as well as to push exports to the USA taking advantage of the massive US import tariff difference between India and China. India needs to be cautious about China’s likely general merchandise export push, including automobiles, to the country to partly offset its anticipated export loss to the United States. The total US import tariff on goods from China now stands at 145 percent. President Trump had made a general announcement of 10 percent import tariff for all countries, and even higher tariffs for 60 trading partners having high trade imbalance with the US.

Although the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections are a year away, the recent announcement of the BJP and AIADMK poll alliance is strategically important. This tie-up, part of the larger National Democratic Alliance at the national level, could benefit both parties in the upcoming elections.

The right wing President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa won Presidential elections run off on April 13 by securing 55.85 per cent of the votes polled as against 44.15 per cent polled by his rival Luis Gonzalez of the left coalition, defying the close fight predictions given by the opinion polls. The Left rival Luisa Gonzalez demanded the recount amidst noisy demonstrations by her supporters who alleged that the polls were rigged by the Noboa regime.

Days of pressure from fellow Republicans, business executives and even his close friends hadn’t appeared to move Trump, who insisted last week: “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.” Eventually, though, he backed down on April 10 and reversed course on his sweeping tariff plan by announcing a three-month pause.