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NEW YORK: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are attempting to transform the architecture of the federal government. The American state under their influence is not merely a vehicle for broad capitalist governance but a tool for the personal enrichment of individual business elites.

BERLIN: Some world events can look different to those of us in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war, which is looks — and is closer over here.

Bangladesh has officially sought a meeting between their head of interim government Dr. Mohammad Yunus and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the coming BIMSTEC meeting at Bangkok on April 2-4 next. Both countries are members of BIMSTEC. As per present schedule, both have confirmed their presence at the summit of the BIMSTEC. Desperate to have a meeting with the Indian PM after getting a drubbing from the U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard during her visit to India last week, the Bangladesh government wants to have a detailed discussion with the Indian PM who has been averting a one-on-one meeting in the last seven and half months since Dr. Yunus took over as interim head on August 8, 2024.

Despite his best efforts and concessions to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, including a US vote in the UN alongside North Korea, Iran and Russia on Ukraine war, Putin has given a big hoax to US president.

NEW YORK: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is in a head spinning dilemma as US President Donald Trump bowls him a googly the first ball and a China man the second and the predatory wicket keeper Russian President Vladimir Putin is waiting like a hawk to stump Zelensky as he tries to go out of the crease to kick in the ceasefire hard to end the three-year old conflict.

‘Mind your language’ is out of the phrasebook. Now, it’s Mind your Grok! But wait, there’s no guarantee Grok’s gonna listen. Grok’s got a mind of its own and Grok’s not subject to the law of the land, or is it? Question is, why’s Grok suddenly in the thick of things?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no denying the politics behind the ongoing ASHA workers’ strike in the Kerala Capital. The well-orchestrated misinformation campaign blitzkrieg - packed with patent falsehoods and rank misinformation - unleashed by the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in connection with the strike is a part of the political game to discredit the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the State.

As the year 2026 approaches, the issue of the delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies is drawing public attention and controversy. This is the year when the freeze on the number of seats will end, and the next round of delimitation must be undertaken following the first census conducted after 2026. The 42nd Constitutional Amendment, enacted during the Emergency in 1976, initially froze delimitation. Later, under the Vajpayee government, this freeze was extended until 2026.

Just after the seventh round of talks between agitating farmers representatives of Punjab and the central delegation ended inconclusively on March 19, 2025, the Punjab Police came into action, arrested hundreds of protesting farmers from various places including from the protest sites at Shambu and Khanauri borders. Police from both the states Punjab and Haryana, are now bulldozing the structures that were created to prevent the farmers to march ahead to Delhi to press on their demands, chiefly a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price for their crops.

NEW YORK: Can India follow the Chinese model with retaliatory tariffs against the US duties on Indian goods as US president Donald Trump, despite his bonhomie with Indian premier Narendra Modi, publicly declared that Indian tariffs on US products were among the highest and so why not increase the tariffs on Indian products.