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It may be too early to tell, but the signs seem promising for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
TMC s landslide victory in the West Bengal assembly elections over the Bharatiya Janata Party, helmed by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, is propelling Mamata to becoming the focal point of opposition parties united effort to halt the BJP in the 2024 general elections.
An array of senior Congress leaders, who had shot off a letter to party President Sonia Gandhi last year seeking organisational changes after its abject defeat in the 2019 parliamentary polls, have been gushing over Mamata s leadership since the Bengal poll results came out on May 2.
What’s wrong with India and Pakistan!
The history of the Indo-Pak ties is chequered with breakups and new beginnings
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When the UAE’s ambassador to Washington, in a virtual discussion with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on April 14, took the credit of “bringing Kashmir escalation down and creating a ceasefire”, it reflected a shift in India’s policy on mediation. While India is silent on the claim, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, at a press conference in Dubai on April 18, ruled out ‘backchannel negotiations’ with India. However, he did admit that intelligence level talks were held between the two countries on contentious issues.
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