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News Capsule For The Month of April 2025

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Following are the top news for the month.   If you wish to follow and get notifications of future articles, you can sign up using the email on the left sidebar.  Article of the month Kerala  Kinfra to open a new water plant in Aluva. HC rejects to stay BJP leaders plea to stop screening L2Empuraan movie.  Vellapally Nadesan makes a controversial statement on Malappuram. Maharaja's students gatecrash Ernakulam Bar Association lawyers' gathering; 20 injured in scuffle. Woman held with ganja worth Rs 35.7 lakh at Kochi Airport. Private players knock on KMRL's door for feeder buses to Tripunithura.  Munambam people on protesters celebrate the Waqf Amendment Bill. They join BJP soon after that.  BJP central leaders visit Munambam promised action.  After Kiren Rijiju's remarks on the Waqf dispute in Kerala, have put it on the back foot.  Kerala orders feasibility study on reopening Old Aluva-Munnar Road through Pooyamkutty forest. Actor Shine Tom C...

Free-Trade is (not) just about economics

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The Trump Administration's new tariff policy has been in discussion for some time now. Starting from his campaign season, he has been harshly talking about imposing reciprocal tariffs with the US's major trading partners. Well, everything that Trump has been talking about tariffs only since last year, right? Not so. Trump made tariffs a central policy even in his 2016 election campaign, and the US entered a trade war with China, which lasted even during the Biden Administration. To our shock, Biden didn't remove most of the tariffs that were imposed by the Trump administration. In addition, Biden continued to keep them as well as continue to impose tariffs on aluminium, steel and 200% on Chinese EVs. Now, you can see there is a small affinity for tariffs not only in the US but around the world.  Let us not deny the fact that we are all beneficiaries of free trade. We are taught pure economics in school but not international political economy. Hence, our understanding of eco...

News Capsule For The Month of March 2025

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  Following are the top news for the month.   If you wish to follow and get notifications of future articles, you can sign up using the email on the left sidebar.  Article of the month Kerala  Kerala state budget presented in the state assembly.  CPIM's state meeting ends in Kollam with a strict change of ideology.  An elephant goes on a rampage in a temple festival.  CASA says it will enter electoral politics in Kerala.  Six were arrested in an Aluva drug bust. Kochi Metro has yet to fix the Kaloor Stadium glitch. A Kerala cop was caught red-handed while taking a bribe for passport verification.  Rites Ltd emerges as the sole bidder for Phase III Kochi metro line.  Director of Empuraan film 📽 Prithviraj says he'll be making 17 voluntary edits to the film after the backlash.  BJP has nominated former minister and technocrat Rajeev Chandrashekhar for the post of State President ahead of local elections this year and State elect...

Demystifying the myths and misconceptions on Trump, Zelensky, Putin triangle of Russia-Ukraine War in the light of recent events

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Two years ago, we had published a similar article on various myths that persist in people's minds about the Russia- Ukraine War and that somehow Ukraine and the West are to be blamed for it. All those myths were busted then and there. This article will look into myths that came up recently, ever since Trump's campaigning for the US elections 2024 started, and how Trump planned to end the current war, largely blaming Zelensky for prolonging the war, colluding with Biden, Kamala and others "Warmongering" Democrats.                 Credits- ABC News LINK To Newscapsule of February 2025 We are three years into the current Russia-Ukraine War. Although the Russo-Ukraine conflict is not three years old, rather it is more than a decade old. The annexation of Crimea, followed by the support for rebellion and separatism in the Donbas region, sparked the Conflict. Although the actual violent events started in 2014, there was a very long debate on w...