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A Telangana caste survey shows deep social disparities, revealing that poverty is closely tied to caste, with SCs and STs significantly more deprived than upper castes across income, education, housing and employment indicators.

As the entire South Asia is watching with surprise and curiosity, it needs to be recalled that during his first presidential term, Trump had been completely hostile towards Pakistan. In January 2018, he had suspended about $2 billion in security assistance to Pakistan for sheltering the terrorist groups like the infamous “Haqqani Network”. He went to the extent of saying, Pakistan had given the US nothing but “lies and deceit”.

While India is on the right path to leverage this technology, there is a need for providing a larger role for the private sector and cooperation with friendly nations which are working to address the critical bottlenecks of quantum computing.

While population has necessarily to be the basis for providing representation to any state, still northern states are already at a great disadvantage as compared to the southern states. Take for example the case of Tamil Nadu. According to the 2011 census, its population was about 7.21 crore, while it has 39 Lok Sabha MPs. The population of Madhya Pradesh, according to the 2011 census is 8.58 crore, 1.3 crore more than TN and yet it has only 29 Lok Sabha MPs, 10 less than TN.

When one of the host nations happens to be the US government, led by the Trump administration, controversies are a given. But FIFA’s close brush with geopolitical drama could be compromising not just the platform but the sporting spirit as well.

The issue of delimitation is not about the “North-South” divide as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is trying to make it to be. Nor are any states being put to any disadvantage.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that aims to create a stable set of zones and places – like international straits – where everyone agrees on who can do what, has been ratified by 171 countries and the EU, but not Iran or the US. This means it can’t serve as a basis of agreement over how the US and Iran should govern their actions in the strait during the current war.

The AAP has again touched a raw nerve of the Punjabis, which can have consequences. AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal is on record having said it before 2022 assembly elections that once the AAP forms government in Punjab, those guilty of sacrilege would be punished within 24 hours. What people expected was punishment to the guilty, not another law.

It is not just the world economies and energy resources at stake in a war. The environmental impact of a war metastasises far beyond the borders at conflict and may be irreversible. But are we far busier taking stock of share markets and gold prices instead?

While Iran holds that the ceasefire applies to all hostilities, the US and Iran have been maintaining that it does not apply to Lebanon. Hezbollah is a strong Iranian ally, which it cannot and will not abandon at any cost. Israel is targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Perhaps, for the first time, the state is witnessing such a severe financial crunch that salaries of officers and employees have been deferred, development works have slowed down, political bitterness is at its peak, and the administration is under constant scrutiny for contradictions in governance.

Since Telangana's carving out from the original combined Andhra Pradesh in 2014, Amaravati has been at the centre of the state's political and developmental discourse. With the change of guard, Amaravati has once again taken the centre stage.