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Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire with Iran, dropping threat to destroy ‘whole civilization’

Dubai/Jerusalem/Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday agreed to a two-week ceasefire with ​Iran, less than two hours before his deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating attacks on its civilian infrastructure. Trump’s announcement ‌on social media represented an abrupt turnaround from earlier in the day, when he issued an…

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Mamata Banerjee will win despite ‘BJP’s conspiracy’: Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday asserted that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would win the upcoming elections despite what he alleged were attempts by the BJP to manipulate the process. He also questioned the basis of the proposed women’s reservation exercise in Parliament during an interaction with reporters here. Responding to…

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Adani seeks dismissal of SEC case, cites extraterritorial overreach, lack of jurisdiction

New York:  Billionaire Gautam Adani has moved a US court seeking dismissal of a US Securities and Exchange Commission’s securities fraud lawsuit, arguing the case represents an impermissible extraterritorial application of US law and fails for lack of personal jurisdiction. The SEC had sued Adani Group founder and his nephew, Sagar, in November 2024, alleging…

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Any language or action contemplating end of civilisation unacceptable: Rahul after Trump’s warning to Iran

New Delhi:  With US President Donald Trump threatening that a whole civilisation will die on Tuesday night, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said any language or action that contemplates the end of civilisation is unacceptable in the modern world and asserted that the use of nuclear weapons can never be justified. In a post on X,…

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Rewriting Representation: Women, Delimitation, and India’s Democratic Reset

India’s democracy has long prided itself on scale, diversity, and resilience. Yet, beneath this grand narrative lies a persistent imbalance—one that has quietly shaped governance for decades. Representation, the very backbone of democracy, has often been uneven, exclusionary, and outdated. Today, however, a set of structural reforms promises not just correction, but a decisive reset….

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