KM Rakesh

2 weeks ago | meer.com | KM Rakesh

India and Pakistan are back in global focus as the two South Asian nuclear-armed neighbors following a deadly terror attack in the Indian union territory Kashmir, where Muslim terrorists shot and killed 26 men, most of them Hindu tourists out on a summer break. Four militants from The Resistance Front, a little-known offshoot of the proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, picked Hindu men from tourists who had come from various parts of India to the picturesque Kashmir Valley.

1 month ago | meer.com | KM Rakesh

India is in the midst of yet another language war with the southern states up in arms accusing the federal government of using covert means to impose Hindi. To the uninitiated, Hindi is not a pan-Indian language and such protests are not new. The official data shows that Hindi — as defined by the federal government that bunched a bouquet of North Indian languages, all bracketed under Hindi — is spoken by 42 per cent of the approximately 1.4 billion people.

2 months ago | meer.com | KM Rakesh

The German national elections that sent shockwaves in Europe with the emergence of far-right Alternative for Democracy (AfD) as a mainstream party also saw how the party’s influence forced the centre-left and conservative parties to compromise on their long-held policies on welcoming refugees and other irregular immigrants.

Nov 30, 2024 | thefederal.com | KM Rakesh

Political parties across the Centre-Left spectrum in Germany had come down heavily on Bjoern Hoecke of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD; Alternative for Germany) when he vented his fury against a Holocaust memorial in the heart of Berlin nearly eight years ago.

Nov 22, 2024 | thefederal.com | KM Rakesh

As EU braces for a trade war expected to be triggered by Trump presidency, it is preparing itself armed with a template of retaliatory strikes and its past hitory of dealing with Trump tariffs The European Union is bracing for a full-on trade war against the US come January, when Donald Trump assumes office for his second term and is expected to increase import tariffs even for the closest of America’s allies.