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WASHINGTON DC: As President Donald Trump’s planned taxpayer-paid birthday bash June 14 concert collapsed, activists—led by labour, the No Kings movement, and 50501—stepped up plans for events opposing his agenda this week.

LONDON: Raul Castro was born on June 3 in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931. If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutionary it is today. Castro, Cuba’s former president, has been accused by the US regime of being a terrorist over the shooting-down of two aircraft three decades ago.

Public anger has a strange way of finding symbols. Sometimes it gathers around a saintly figure in a white cap, sometimes around an unlikely political label that sounds almost like a joke until it begins to speak for a generation. The overwhelming response from Gen Z to the Cockroach party carries unmistakable echoes of Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption agitation. Both emerged as vehicles for resentment against a system seen as remote, arrogant and morally exhausted. Both drew energy from people who felt that conventional politics had stopped listening. Both appeared, at least at the beginning, to be spontaneous uprisings rather than carefully manufactured political projects.

Post poll political violence between the rank and file of bitter political rivals – the BJP and the TMC –continues even after a month of declaration of results on May 4, 2026. Former CM Mamata has been alleging that the BJP is intimidating their leaders, enforcing them to quit the party, or suffer the consequences in terms of raids and arrests. On June 3, about 60 TMC MLAs out of 80, are reported to have formed a separate group in the Legislative Assembly, which looks like dismantling of the TMC has entered into final stage, putting TMC and its leader Mamata’s political survival at stake. Wither goes the West Bengal politics from here?

The electoral future of the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh in the context of the 2027 assembly polls, hinges on their ability to mobilize Dalits and OBCs. By aggressively championing a caste census and articulating a credible "social justice" narrative, both parties have successfully cut into the BJP's base. The longevity of this shift depends on several key dynamics. Whether the Congress and SP will succeed in trouncing the BJP of Yogi Adityanath depends on their ability to use the existing contradictions within the saffron brigade and how far they succeed in foiling Amit Shah’s manoeuvrings to rig and temper the election process, as he has successfully carried out in West Bengal.

KOLKATA: More things change, the more they remain the same. Trinamool Congress Legislature Party has split, but it continues to consider Mamata Banerjee as its leader. This was stated in a letter to state Assembly Speaker, Rathindra Bose on Wednesday signed by 59 MLA'S seeking Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the Opposition. Akur Zaman was named the chief whip of the legislative party.

KOLKATA: CPI(ML)-Liberation, a constituent of the Left Front in West Bengal has taken a stronger line against the new BJP government in the state headed by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, compared to the leader of the LF CPI(M). The party is actively opposing the new BJP government through targeted legal challenges, grassroots demonstrations and strong statements condemning the attacks on the TMC workers.

India has always known summer. It has known the fierce loo winds sweeping across the Gangetic plains, the cracked earth of Bundelkhand, the shimmering mirages of Rajasthan and the annual ritual of waiting for the monsoon clouds to appear over the horizon like a cavalry charge.

On May 21, 2026, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) delivered its advisory opinion in Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87, holding by a ten is to four votes margin that the right to strike of workers and their organisations is protected under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87). The opinion, rendered on a request transmitted by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization in November 2023, resolves more than a decade of institutional uncertainty engineered by the Employers’ group at the International Labour Conference, beginning with the 2012 dispute that paralysed the work of the Committee on the Application of Standards.

Oil prices are unlikely to return to pre-war levels in the short to medium term at least, a shift that could keep inflation elevated, delay interest-rate cuts, and reshape investment returns across global markets.