French president Emmanuel Macron has arrived in the United States, and as one of the only international leaders who has a good relationship with Trump, is under a lot of pressure.
Kim Jong-un will meet South Korean president Moon Jae-in later this week and with Donald Trump later this month. If a diplomatic decision is reached, China could find itself losing influence in the region.
On Thursday, North Korea withdrew a long-standing demand for the United States to withdraw its forces from South Korea in exchange for denuclearization.
On April 14, the three countries launched an early morning strike inside Syria, that struck three facilities to punish a suspected chemical attack by President Bashar al-Assad against his own people last week.
Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.
In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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