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Politics of Hate: Welcome to West Bengal under BJP rule

  West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced that singing Vande Mataram will now be mandatory in schools across the state. The Chief Minister said that from Monday onwards, all schools must sing the national song, adding that a formal government order will soon be issued from the Secretariat. The move comes amid a long-standing political debate in Bengal over Vande Mataram, with earlier clashes between the BJP and TMC on the issue. BJP leaders have consistently pushed for wider adoption of the national song in educational institutions, while the TMC had previously accused the BJP of politicizing cultural icons and symbols. Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari Makes Vande Mataram Mandatory In All Schools Across West Bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister follows Bulldozer policy following Uttar Pradesh model

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India: How Suvendu Adhikari Ran an Anti-Muslim Campaign to Win Bengal

  Instagram Kunal Purohit went through Adhikari’s publicly available statements and speeches between 2021 and 2026, and found a clear pattern of communally-charged and divisive remarks.

Judge overturns US sanctions on UN official who called for war crimes prosecutions over Gaza

  A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s sanctions against a United Nations official who has faced accusations of antisemitism over her calls for war crimes charges against Israeli officials over their actions in Gaza. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed the sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian human rights, last July under an executive order President Donald Trump signed authorizing such actions against people “directly engaged” in the International Criminal Court’s investigations related to alleged atrocities in Gaza. However, in a ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the administration’s sanctions against Albanese violate the First Amendment because they’re based solely on her encouraging the ICC to investigate and prosecute.  “Albanese has done nothing more than speak!” Leon wrote in a 26-page decision salted with his trademark exclamation points. “It is undisputed that her recommendat...

Trump’s remarkable military failure shows abject fiasco of his Iran war

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  Iran’s missile arsenal is mostly intact and still capable of attacking America’s allies beyond the Gulf states, two months into a joint US -Israeli bombing campaign . The White House has repeatedly claimed that Iran ’s military capacity has been “decimated” and wiped out, but Nato sources have told The Independent this is not true. “Whatever anyone is saying in public, we estimate that the Iranians have at least 60 per cent of their missile capability. How else can you explain, for example, how they can continue to attack Gulf nations with missiles and drones?” said a senior Nato source in Europe. This is the latest blow to American claims to have somehow won a war that has achieved none of its stated aims and shown the limits of US power at a time when Donald Trump is heading to China, hoping to be perceived as first among equals. “Everybody knows that Trump and Hegseth are talking nonsense when they make claims to have destroyed Iran militarily,” the source continued. Do...