This week we saw defence ministry’s selfie points unveiled, NCERT’s recommendation to replace India with Bharat and Qatar’s death penalty to Indian navy veterans....
Israel Defence Forces says ‘best soldiers’ operating in Gaza to bring back over 200 hostages. Earlier in the day, IDF dropped leaflets which said Gaza City is now a ‘battlefield’.
Israel says it is preparing a ground invasion of Gaza, but has been urged by US and Arab countries to delay the operation to avoid higher civilian casualties and a wider conflict.
Incursion comes after Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that his war cabinet had made up its mind to go in. IDF said they struck infrastructure and Hamas operatives.
Any normalisation of ties between Israel & Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, would have ‘led to marginalisation of Hamas’ & shifted focus from Palestine, say strategic experts.
'We are not putting pressure, we are asking,' says Israeli envoy. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi reiterates that designation of a terror group is a 'legal matter'.
When I started college in the 90s, the oppressed group that American campuses cheered for was Tibetans. Today, no one speaks about Tibet, they march for Palestine.
Fellow academics have variously called me a Zionist sympathiser who takes Israeli money, promotes the so-called ‘Jewish agenda,’ and whitewashes Israeli actions.
Hamas said the two women, who Israel's Kan public broadcaster reported were dual Israeli-American nationals, were freed 'for humanitarian reasons' in response to Qatari mediation.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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