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BHOPAL: Strange things happen in Madhya Pradesh. Latest in this is the open condemnation of the habit of demanding freebies by the people and leaders, readily giving them liberally. This remark of Minister Prahlad Patel drew sharp criticism from Congress. But Patel forgot that his own government carried a campaign to ban appearance of beggars during Global Industrial Summit in Bhopal. Almost every beggar was asked to disappear. Now after the summit beggars are back in the streets.

Abdullah Ocalan, founder leader of The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) made a historic call from İmralı prison where he is being held in near total isolation since 1999 to his party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict with the Turkish state. PKK responded very positively to the call of its imprisoned leader by announcing a unilateral ceasefire with Turkey.

LONDON: David Leonhardt has written a detailed article for the New York Times arguing that the Danish Social Democrats and their leader, Mette Frederiksen, could be a model for the center left throughout Europe and North America: “Over the past several years, there is arguably not a single high-income country where a center-left party has managed to enact progressive policies and win re-election — with the exception of Denmark.”

The upcoming International Women’s Day, 2025 seeks to ‘Accelerate Action’, to amplify and expedite the sedated movement towards gender equality across the globe. While the global movement for gender parity continues to claim and reclaim spaces, the Indian Judiciary struggles to move beyond its predominantly ‘Male, Stale and Pale’ disposition.. The higher judiciary operates under a collegium system, which has become more opaque, prone to effectively brandishing more bias in the name of ‘representation’.

The U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his missile on Europe, especially, France, UK and Germany by suspending arms aid to Ukraine after categorically making it clear that President Zelensky has to agree to the peace and security deal proposed by Trump on Friday in the White House meeting. The deal is still on the table and only this deal and not all those proposed by EU members at the Sunday meeting in London would be considered.

The evidence brought forward by Trinamool Congress (TMC) from Bengal is just another in a series of evidences of electoral roll manipulation that invariably favours BJP and its allies, as it has recently been witnessed in the recent Maharashtra and Delhi Vidhan Sabha election. Opposition political parties have not only alleged Election Commissions complicity in voter lists fraud, but also demanded to fix the responsibility. Since, evidences emerged so far suggests that electoral roll manipulation in state elections is prima facie true, it must be investigated, action to be taken, and take steps to prevent such manipulation in the future.

Behan Mayawati is anything but a confused aunt. Consumed by her all-powering and unflagging need to stay in power and suspicious of the barest of darkness descending on her, Mayawati sees danger to her throne from all corners of the Bahujan Samaj Party's Diwan-e-Khas knowing that the Diwan-e-Aam cannot be controlled or taken for granted.

Sometimes, history changes little by little, almost imperceptibly. Deep beneath the surface, major forces are at work, slowly shaping the future. But, on the surface, everything seems stable, as if nothing is changing. And, sometimes, it moves very fast, almost like a sudden Nor’wester. Pressure builds up over time, and then, all at once, some event of great magnitude happens—like an earthquake that shakes the ground. In these moments, everything seems to change instantly.

After the reports of high-level pollution in the river water at the Kumbh site now the Bihar economic Survey has come out with a report that the water in Ganges river is not fit for bathing at most places in Bihar because of high bacteriological content. The study has been carried out by the Bihar state pollution control board which monitors the pollution level in Ganga river regularly. Taking cognizance of the large gathering at Praygraj, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had earlier warned that the water at the Prayagraj, the site of Kumbh is highly polluted. They pointed out the pollution content to be far above the permissible limit and that the pollutants included high level of foecal matter.

LONDON: Israel moved on Monday to scrap the existing ceasefire deal in Gaza and replace it with what it described as a new United States ceasefire plan. Tel Aviv is trying to force the new plan on Hamas by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip.