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The Left is having a bad time in Presidential elections in the Latin American countries. After losing Ecuador and Chile, the ruling Left coalition in Colombia faced a defeat in first round of Presidential polls in the country held on May 31. The ruling coalition nominee Senator Ivan Cepeda came out second with 41 per cent of the votes as against the Trump loyalist right wing candidate Abelardo Espriella getting 43.7 per cent of the votes. The third candidate Paloma Valencia, a moderate conservative got 7 per cent.

LUCKNOW: In the absence of any dialogue between Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav on poll alliance against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party and Congress are making preparations in all the assembly seats for 2027 polls. Now nobody talks about INDIA alliance in UP, Akhilesh Yadav claims that his party will form the government and likewise Congress is also making tall claims. After the brilliant performance of SP-Congress alliance in 2024 Lok Sabha polls restricting BJP in the state and the centre as well., the poll scenario for 2027 polls is still not clear.

CHANDIGARH: On one hand, in Haryana, even a sufficient number of its youth, passing out the Post Graduation, NET and PhD degrees from its own colleges and universities are not getting even the minimum qualifying marks to get through the Assistant Professor’s exams being conducted by its own Public Service Commission and most of the seats remain unfilled due to suitable candidates not found, the adjacent Punjab has developed such a model that it is getting first category inclusion in Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 report among all the states in the country; the PGI evaluates the performance of states and UTs by categorising them into different grades rather than assigning ranks.

The IPL 2026 season ended with a familiar image: Virat Kohli standing tall under the lights of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, bat raised, trophy secured, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru celebrating a second consecutive title. For a franchise that spent nearly two decades being mocked for failing to convert promise into silverware, RCB have suddenly become the IPL’s newest powerhouse.

The promise of India becoming the world’s third-largest economy has become one of the most persistent themes in the political messaging of the Modi government. It is projected as evidence of national resurgence, a sign that India is no longer waiting at the margins of global power but preparing to occupy a central position in the world economy.

Navigating Change Through Inclusive Social Dialogue, the fourth item on the agenda of the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference scheduled to be held during June 1 – 12, 2026, has pointed out that the tripartite social dialogue in India has stopped since 2015, while the third item on the agenda on Application of International Labour Standards 2026 has found that inspections for labour offence has been curbed, appointment of central inspectors has stopped, and no fine or punishment were given to the offending employers in Special Economic Zones (SEZs).

May 30 marks the launch of SIR in strife-scarred Manipur, where Assembly elections ‘under normal circumstances’ are due between late February and mid-March 2027, SIR, therefore, is preparatory to constituting the 60 member-House in this north-eastern state, where ethnic conflict of alarming proportions on the issue of ST status for the majoritarian Valley-based Meiteis, had broken out on May 3, 2023 causing serious loss of life and property and leaving thousands of people displaced. Which means the state was in turmoil barely six weeks after the new Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition ministry assumed office on March 21, 2022.

The Hindi film industry has always lived on nostalgia. Every generation rediscovers the songs, stars and stories of the one before it. In recent years, however, Bollywood has turned nostalgia into a business model. Old songs are remixed, recreated, repackaged and inserted into new films with increasing frequency. What was once an occasional tribute has become a marketing strategy.

KOLKATA: The dimension of the threat from Artificial Intelligence to the human labour force is becoming more clearer as the AI enters its new stage of development. The first wave of artificial intelligence largely functioned like an assistant. It made workers write code faster, summarise documents, analyse data and automate repetitive tasks. Companies presented these tools as productivity enhancers rather than job destroyers.

The last three months of 2026 have seen considerable inflationary pressure on Indian economy on account of fuel crisis triggered by the Iran war. All sectors of economy are reeling under the pressure. Unemployment is rising, real wages have declined, and living cost is rising fast. Now, there is an additional concern of a deficit monsoon in 2026 after three years. It is a matter of great concern because Indian agriculture depends for 70 per cent of water on monsoon. The monsoon rainfall is also the chief source of groundwater and the waterbodies on the surface.