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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was right when she said on Thursday replying to the Prime Minister’s vicious attacks against her and her government that Narendra Modi was making use of the Operation Sindoor to achieve cheap political gains for the BJP in the coming assembly polls in the state in early 2026. This was the first such unambiguous attack against the partisan politics of the Prime Minister who has been trying to convert the success of the Indian army against Pakistan through Operation Sindoor into political gains for the BJP through his election oriented speeches since May 10 when the India-Pakistan truce took place.

Days of pressure from fellow Republicans, business executives, and even close friends had not moved Donald Trump. On April 2, 2025—his self-styled “Liberation Day”—the former President insisted: “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.” Yet just over a week later, on April 10, Trump backtracked, announcing a three-month pause in his sweeping tariff plan. Even so, his 10% across-the-board tariffs remained in place.

Number of voices being made by several people in the helm of affairs simultaneously are creating Babel, a confusing noise, especially in respect of Pakistan. While Multi-party Joint Parliamentary delegations currently visiting various countries are at pain while explaining India’s position using a language of “exposing” Pakistan and defending “our right of self-defense”, BJP leaders at home, including Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, are speaking the language of “aggression”. The Babel has already influenced opinions against India which is reflected in part in the “disappointment” faced by Indian multi-party parliamentary delegation in Colombia, which should serve as a wake-up call to BJP leaders.

Home Minister Amit Shah is in a ravishing mood for his achievement of killing CPI(Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju along with some 30 odd Maoist cadres and leaders in the Narayanpur massacre on May 21. His claim that “it is a landmark achievement in the battle to eliminate Naxalism” did not come as surprise since Amit Shah simply understands the language of violence and savagism. His wisdom of political discernment could be realized from his holding cauliflower, as a symbol of victory, reminiscent of Bhagalpur carnage of 1989 in which a large number of Muslims were killed and buried in an agriculture land with cauliflower cover.

NEW YORK: The war of attrition has begun on Trumps unilateral global tariffs on some 160 countries primarily China, Canada and Mexico as a three-judge bench of New York court blocked on Wednesday the measure saying the US President has no unilateral powers to impose tariffs on other countries. . Though on Thursday, Trump got a temporary relief, the main issue will be heard in the context of violation of established norms pursued by the U.S. government.

First Lalu Prasad Yadav and his eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav, also known as 'Teju Bhaiya', whose wayward ways irritated Lalu so much that he disowned the son and also threw him out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for six years, which is the average time for a gone astray politician to mend his ways. Now, Lalu has company "down south", where another irritated political father, PMK founder S Ramadoss, has made it clear that he won't take his politician son's tantrums for granted.

KOLKATA: Ethnic strife-scarred Manipur’s immediate past chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, who has been lying low since his resignation from the post on February 9 is active again. On May 28 Biren met Governor Ajay Bhalla and submitted to him a 12 page-letter citing how illegal migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have through the years have been seriously impacting the demography of this small north-east state and how during his chiefministership he tried to rectify the situation in the interest of the indigenous people of Manipur.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keralites woke up on Saturday, May 24, 2025 to the horrifying news of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MSC Elsa 3, sinking just 27 km away from the State’s coast, spilling hazardous cargo of calcium carbide, diesel and furnace oil.

LUCKNOW: NDA alliance partner Apna Dal (S) is playing an aggressive dalit card to join the race with other parties to woo scheduled castes and scheduled tribes to strengthen the support base of the party in Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister Anupriya Patel appointed a dalit leader RP Gautam as state president of Apna Dal to woo dalits voters during UP Assembly elections scheduled in 2027.

Yaqeen Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors around her. Her diaries – digital this time – became a record of the brutalities faced by her people.