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Pakistan faces a diplomatic and cricketing dilemma after Bangladesh was expelled from the T20 World Cup following Islamabad’s attempts to involve it against India. Despite threats to boycott, the Pakistan Cricket Board is preparing its players to compete in Sri Lanka, highlighting the complex politics affecting South Asian cricket.

It is highly improbable that India can ever move to a stage of “casteless society” as everything is dominated, determined and decided in terms of caste proportions and merit is made a secondary option.

Iran is a “threshold state”—a country with the technical capacity to produce nuclear weapons but that has not crossed the final line of production. A destabilised threshold state poses three risks: loss of centralised command over nuclear material and scientists, incentives for factions to monetise or export expertise, and acceleration logic—actors racing to secure deterrence before collapse.

At stake is the future of the “Pawar” legacy, so carefully crafted and carved out by the family patron Sharad Pawar.

The EU-India trade deal should be understood not as a purely commercial breakthrough, but also as a strategic signal—aimed primarily at the US.

Punjab is the only state in the north, where the party has not been able to establish itself as a strong force to reckon with.

The damage to Lebanon’s environment will have long-term consequences and repairing the damage would involve a multi-year reconstruction project costing an estimated US$11 to $14 billion. This destruction indicates a grave breach of international environmental law and raises the question of whether Israel committed war crimes in Lebanon by deliberately targeting natural resources and engaging in environmental warfare.

Since the BJP’s opponents have consistently and continuously been trying to identify the party with the upper castes even describing it as “Manuvadi” (who believe in the doctrine of Manusmriti), the party wants to shed that image.

The US President’s sudden, although not unannounced, interest in Greenland has had both geopolitical analysts and conspiracy theorists working overtime.

Today, cricket stands among the world’s most powerful sports—commercially dominant, globally followed, and culturally influential. That transformation did not happen by chance. It was shaped by visionaries who dared to think beyond convention, and Bindra was one of the most consequential among them.

This synchronisation of traditional military action with advanced cyber warfare represents a new chapter in international conflict, one where lines of computer code that manipulate critical infrastructure are among the most potent weapons.

Since 2012, at least 17 Generals from the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, have been removed from their military positions, among them eight who were former top commission members.