The trains were stopped after farmers launched a 'rail roko' stir over farm laws, but Punjab CM has assured Shah that protesters have cleared train tracks.
The protest by farmers in Punjab began as a fight against the farm laws but has since galvanised as a campaign against corporates that extends to toll plazas, petrol pumps and malls.
Farmer leaders from Punjab, who met Union Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal for an hour Wednesday, were incensed about the absence of any Union minister at the talks.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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