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Gandhi needs to be asked that should the violent protesters, most of whom were not even students, been allowed to have a free run? Should they have been allowed to stone the cops and damage the public property like police vehicles and buildings. And should they be allowed to hold the national capital to ransom?

The coming legal fight, should it arise, will not be over whether the government can exert the level of control it already has. The fight will be about how governments can wield this control responsibly. The best case at this point is that this fight takes place in the open, with public input, through lawful legislative processes.

Trump’s offhand remarks often invoke disgust and paranoia against perceived enemies – for example, toward immigrants, whom he has repeatedly described as dangerous criminals. These same patterns emerge in the Trump administration’s formal communication regarding trans issues.

The most effective way to reduce the proliferation risk of the deal is prohibiting indigenous Saudi uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing. Should the US allow enrichment, implementing a black box facility and stringent IAEA safeguards would mitigate any risk of Riyadh gaining expertise for a future nuclear weapons program.

The dais appears to be heavily loaded against the moderates as jailed MP Amritpal Singh is finding a lot of traction among the traditional Akali supporters, particularly across rural Punjab. He has the advantage of appealing to the younger generation also.

The suspected Berlin Pride attacker had a past linked to ISIS, bringing the threat of jihadist radicalisation back into focus. The attack also raises questions about who the "new Jihadis" are and why ISIS ideology continues to find an audience in Europe.

The party’s post-mortem of its electoral performance in West Bengal and Kerala has revealed systemic flaws, from ineffective campaigning to poor candidate selection. But the most striking realisation is political rather than organisational: a considerable section of Left supporters in West Bengal drifted towards the BJP, driven by the belief that unseating the Trinamool Congress was the immediate priority. This shift, once dismissed as anecdotal or exaggerated, is now being acknowledged as a central factor in the Left’s decline.

US tariff refunds may return billions to businesses, but they cannot undo the wider economic damage, uncertainty and disruption caused to global trade.

As the elections draw closer, the problem of factionalism is becoming increasingly serious for the Congress. So much so that people close to Channi and Randhawa do not rule out the possibility of the two leaders quitting the Congress and joining another party or even forming one of their own.

A minister's resignation may be a victory, but it will do little to fix the deeper, systemic problems at the heart of India's massive youth unemployment crisis.

The timing of Bittu's resignation was significant. It was obviously aimed at conveying a message to a section of people in poll-bound Punjab where the BJP has raised high stakes. Bittu’s resignation is inconsequential at the national level, but for Punjab it is significant.

Education is known to be the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world. Paradoxically, the recent struggle against the system was a fight to save that very 'weapon' using its own power.