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United States of America’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard will be visiting India early next week in the concluding part of his tour of the Asia Pacific nations including Japan and Thailand. This will be the first visit to India of such a high ranking official of the Trump 2.0 administration to India since Trump took over the presidency on January 20 this year. Gabbard’s talks with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi will have special significance in the context of the present developments in Bangladesh.

Long before Donald John Trump became President of the US for the first time in 2016, he invited the sobriquet maverick for the unconventional way he conducted his business and politics. The world is having a full taste of that in his second term as President Trump has proposed a tariff structure, which the US administration is in the process of implementing causing acute resentment among all US trade partners, including its traditional close allies. Imports of steel along with the base metal aluminium are coming for highly punishing tariff barrier with the US to charge 25% import duty irrespective of the origin of the two metals.

Character and quality of education and health are the basic indices to comprehend the true nature of empowerment and growth of a community. Otherwise too it is known fact education is the Most Powerful Weapon which you one use to change the world. Education provides the wing to fly. A person, irrespective of being male or female, without education is just like a bird without wings. Resorting to euphemism would temporarily conceal the unpleasant scenario in which Muslims survive, but it certainly cannot be a permanent panacea.

The issue of a separate Kosal state in Odisha has got a fresh impetus after senior BJP leader Jayanarayan Mishra called the merger of Odisha’s western region named Kosal with the state a ‘historic blunder’, though the opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJP) has accused the ruling BJP of trying to “divide the state” and BJP has distanced itself from its senior party leader’s remark regarding merger of Kosal region with Odisha.

Pakistan Army's Operation Jaffar Express Clean-up came to a successful conclusion: All the Baloch ‘dehshatgars (terrorists)’ were eliminated in one fell-swoop with not a single body of the killed terrorists to show! Pak Army's Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) told the media. And if that is believable, how about the claim of not a single Pakistani soldier/officer, Special Forces personnel, lost his life cleaning up the "terrorists"?

NEW YORK: Just in time for Women’s History Month comes the wrestling biopic Queen of the Ring, which provides an epic rollercoaster ride through the journey of sports legend Mildred Burke. The movie is packed to the brim with wrestling lore through the scope of a woman who dared to defy societal conventions—and the odds—to go on to be one of the most prolific athletes in wrestling.

President Trump’s repeated assertions that India has agreed to reduce tariffs “way down” have sparked a predictable wave of denials from New Delhi, underscoring the fraught and often opaque nature of trade negotiations between the two countries. While Trump’s tendency to make exaggerated or even unverified claims is well-known, in this particular case his statements may hold more weight than the official denials coming from the Indian government. This is not without precedent.

As part of his pan-India vision, Rahul Gandhi has executed his ambitious programme to weed out BJP’s sleeper cells within Congress ranks and hand over the functioning of the party into the hands of the ideologically-oriented young leaders.

Wednesday afternoon the Pak Army was planning a “full-scale operation” to free Pak Army personnel taken hostage by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in a train. This, after claiming that security forces had "rescued over 100 civilian hostages" when the reality was the BLA had already "released civilians, including women and children."

In India, archaeological practices and conservation are regulated by a network of bureaucratic mechanisms, legal authority, and disciplinary conventions. The primary institution at the helm of these practices is the Archaeological Survey of India.