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WASHINGTON DC: US President Donald Trump cut short his visit to Canada to return home after the G7 summit to take stock of the situation as he ruled out what national security advisor Tulsi Gabbard had to say about the alleged nuclear facility in Iran. Trump believes Iran is going nuclear. This development in the Oval office on Tuesday has led to the belief that Trump will lead US participation in war against Israel if Iran does not surrender.

Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir had lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday. Missing from the menu was the delectable 'Ambush Modi', the main course. Gen. Munir must not have known. But not many knew till Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri woke up the Indian media and let the cat out of the bag.

There is precious little good news to emerge from the Middle East since the IDF launched its spectacular blitzkrieg and leadership decapitation strike against Iran's nuclear asset and military/intelligence elite last Friday. This weekend was grim with Iran's ballistic missile strike on Haifa and Tel Aviv with even a real miss on the IDF command and control complex in Kirya. Netanyahu's boast that he would order IDF warplanes to destroy 100 buildings in Iran for every building destroyed by an Iranian missile in Israel also suggested a protracted, bloody conflict. Yet Brent has plunged to 71.80 as I write with Nasdaq up 300 points on diplomatic signals that Iran wants to join Trump's call for immediate peace deal talk under his aegis.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The stage is set for an absorbing electoral race between the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the by-election to the Nilambur assembly constituency in Kerala.

It was a meeting with difference. Usually the organisational meetings are held to project a leader or strategize the policies and ideas. But the June 15 meeting convened by Krishna Allavaru, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and in-charge of Bihar where Assembly elections, turned out to be combat turf with the former state unit chief Akhilesh Singh, known to be a protégé of RJD chief Lalu Yadav openly repudiating Rahul’s electoral strategy.

It was in the decade of 1840s, dominated by strikes and struggles and signified by upheavals and uprisings. Among them the most popular but brutally suppressed one that remained alive only for four days – but has kept echoing even after almost two centuries — was the June uprising. It was in Paris. The tensions between bourgeoisie and the workers were most intense here. By February 1848, there was the transition and a new society started emerging, divided in two streams.

June 3, 2025 marks the end of an eighteen year wait for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (‘RCB’) to be crowned champions of Indian Premier League (‘IPL’) 2025. On June 4, an open bus victory was organised by the RCB management, DNA Event Management and the Karnataka State Cricket Association (‘KSCA’), like championship style rallies in football, or the massive rally by the American football team Chicago Bulls in 2023, was organised at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru. The event, organised at the home turf of RCB, was to felicitate the players and thank the fans for their support.

Israeli missile strikes against Teheran and Iran’s counter offensive entered its fifth day on June 17 Tuesday with U.S. President Donald Trump dramatically cutting short his stay in Canada for G-7 meeting for Washington indicating that he would be busy in peace moves in the next few hours for organizing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. French President Emanuel Macron also informed at the summit venue that Iran sought Trump’s assistance for ending the war.

Intensification of minority pushback drive after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s reaffirmation during the special session of the Legislative Assembly of the State held on June 9, 2025, that his government will not halt the pushback drive against alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators, has sparked the minority community’s outrage across the state. They allege that CM Sarma is communalising Assam politics afresh in an unprecedented way to extract political benefits for himself and BJP, by targeting Muslims in the guise of action against Bangladeshi infiltrators.

President Donald Trump is leading the attack on Iran. This much is clear when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there were two assassination attempts on President Trump by Iranians, once when he was campaigning and the bullet nicked his now famous ear!