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Karnataka is currently undergoing a significant political and generational transition following the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has been elected to succeed him after the Congress party successfully resolved a recent political crisis. This leadership change represents a crucial moment in Karnataka's political landscape. It reflects a strategic adjustment by the party's High Command in response to growing challenges.

The provisional data of the National Family Health Survey 2023-24 (NFHS-6) shows that one per cent of the children below the age of 15 years has just disappeared within two years compared to the NFHS-5 (2019-21). Population of children below 5 years of age has declined from 8.2 per cent to 8 per cent and from 26.5 per cent to 25.5 per cent for children below 15 years.

For much of the last decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has benefited from one political advantage that few leaders enjoy - whenever one crisis emerged, another pillar of the economy remained strong enough to offset the damage.

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.

Facing the big possibility of China taking control of the new Junta government in Myanmar which took office last month, Indian policy makers are now very keen to give a big push to the India-Myanmar relations covering both economy and security aspects. Myanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing is in India visit from May 30 to June 3 to have extensive discussions with the Indian ministers and officials to take the bilateral relations to a new high.

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).