Killing of a Meitei man visiting his Kuki-Zo partner in Churachandpur shows Manipur’s social fabric is still tattered. It has stoked fresh tension just before end of President’s Rule. Centre should initiate dialogue if it is serious about restoring normalcy. Only then can it hope to install a popular government.
Bangladesh cricket is already struggling. It needs nurturing not self-destructive politics
Bangladesh insists it won’t play World T20 in India. It’s subversive of a caretaker government to boycott an ICC event to fuel anti-India sentiment three weeks before polling. The new elected government must restore sanity. Bangladesh cricket is already struggling to justify Test status. It needs nurturing not self-destructive politics.
Trump has sent Davos into a spin
Trump hasn’t just upended the world order, he’s even sent World Economic Forum into a spin. For decades, Davos shaped, articulated, and evangelised the Western consensus on all things, economic, strategic, and military. With Trump sparking a vicious Western rift, it’s a changed world and a changed World Economic Forum.
Governors’ attempts to run down non-NDA govts have damaged Centre-state relations no end
Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka Governors’ refusal to read their addresses to Assemblies as prepared by state governments is deliberately provocative. Constitutional propriety issues aside, their constant attempts to run down elected non-NDA governments have damaged Centre-State relations no end. It also hurts BJP’s image and cause in these states.