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Israel’s attacks on Iran could lead to a catastrophic potential full-scale war, further destabilising an already volatile Middle East, with serious implications for global security. Such a conflict could disrupt global oil supplies, involve international powers, and deepen regional instability.

Pakistan’s foreign minister for a short while Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is emerging as the top diplomat of South Asia. This is the view in the western world just getting to know that Pakistan is peacenik and India is warmonger, led by foreign minister S Jaishankar, who, according to Bilawal Bhutto aficionados, is not made for diplomacy!

The Pahalgam attack on tourists led to a chain reaction leading the attack on bases of terrorist violence in Pakistan. As a ceasefire has been in place; it is time to think about dealing with this cancerous phenomenon in society. Surely the phenomenon of terror has been more in news post 9/11, 2001, twin tower attacks leading to the death of over two thousand people. The term ‘Islamic terrorism’ was coined by US media and picked up by the World over associating Islam to terrorism.

LUCKNOW: For the first time in so many years, Congress Party appears to be in revival mode to take on BJP in 2027 assembly elections. In Uttar Pradesh.. Congress Party is seriously implementing the agenda through Sangathan Srijan programs all over the state to set up booth level units from villages to state capital.

The South American nation Columbia is in political turmoil as the left wing President Gustavo Petro went to the people of the country with his proposal for labour reforms through referendum after the Senate rejected his proposal. The Senate is dominated by the anti-Left parties. Petro is fighting them since he took up the presidency in 2022 as the first left wing President. He was involved in the revolutionary group that fought the Columbian authoritarian regime in earlier years.

More than a month after the pause of India’s Operation Sindoor on May 10 at 5 PM, time has come to state it in candid terms that our Prime Minister’s doctrine of New Normal in respect of relations with Pakistan has failed to convince the major global powers. While strongly defending India in its fight against the terror inspired by Islamabad, the major countries are in favour of bilateral talks to discuss the thorny issues including terror which led to the four day limited war.

The CEO of NITI Aayog has asserted that India has emerged as the fourth-largest economy. He was at least truthful enough to concede that this was based on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) projections for 2025-26 in its World Economic Outlook. Through further elaborations, we precisely come to know that India’s nominal GDP is projected to increase to USD 4,187.017 billion ahead of Japan’s USD 4,186,431 billion by a whisker. It is altogether a different proposition that India’s per capita income happens to be a mere one-thirteenth of Japan’s in nominal dollar terms.

Traversing from Maharashtra trough Uttar Pradesh, the Dalit politics has acquired a new dynamics and character in Bihar. Saffron ecosystem, especially Narendra Modi, intends to exploit this new kinetics for winning the 2025 assembly election and further consolidating his personal mass base and appeal.

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles anti-immigration riots continued unabated for the third day as the city’s mayor Karen Bass clamped curfew on downtown LA and the protests spread to other blue states demonstrating an uneven fight between the democrats and the republicans.

In 2015, the United Nations set a goal to end child labour worldwide by 2025 but progress has been slow and halting. World has missed the target. It has 138 million children between 5 and 17 years of age in child labour, while South Asia has 14.3 million with most of them obviously in India, being the largest populated country in the region. The world was able to eliminate only 20 million child labour since 2020, meaning thereby, the fight against child labour to continue for decades.