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Indian Express
a day ago
- Climate
- Indian Express
CPM should shut down offices and go to China, says Tripura BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb
Tripura BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb said on Tuesday that the CPM should shut down its offices and go to China, responding to the Opposition party's condemnation of the encounter killing of 27 Maoists, including their general secretary Nambala Kesavarao, in Chhattisgarh. The party's Politburo had claimed that appeals for peace from Maoists had been ignored and that the central government as well as BJP-led the state government had chosen to ignore the possibility of dialogues with the rebels. 'The CPM is a banned organisation. Naxals are a banned organisation. Speaking of the banned organisation, the CPM has no place in democracy. If they have shame, they should close their party offices and go to China. They don't have a place in Tripura,' Deb told reporters on the sidelines of a visit to a flood relief camp at Durga Chowmuhani in Agartala. On May 23, Biplab Kumar Deb termed the CPM 'anti-national' for criticising the Centre over the killing of the Maoists. His comments came even though CPM Politburo member and state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury clarified that his party wasn't opposed to any form of military offensive against Maoists or any other radical elements. Rather, Chaudhury said, the party had said the central government had ignored offers of surrender the slain Maoists had allegedly made. 'The CPM or any other patriotic political party or organisation in the country is obviously not opposed to military offensives against terrorists. But while the government is holding peace talks in Nagaland, the central government's move to reject offers of surrender from Maoists and rejecting their plea to return to normal life is not the way things are done…..' Chaudhury said soon after the BJP criticised the Politburo statement. Chaudhury also claimed that while the BJP high command, central government or the Chhattisgarh government didn't criticise the CPM Politburo's statement, some leaders of the saffron party in Tripura were trying to confuse people. During his visit to flood relief camps at Agartala, Biplab Deb continued his tirade against the CPM while distributing food packets. 'Waterlogging in the houses of most people staying in the shelters has reduced. Now they will need to clean their houses in a few days and we have provided food packets to every family so that they have food after reaching home…,' the former chief minister said. Tripura is witnessing heavy rain and thunderstorms that have forced 10,813 people to abandon waterlogged houses and shelter in government camps. As many as 219 houses were damaged in Gomati, Khowai, Sepahijala, South Tripura, and North Tripura districts. However, the assessment of damage is ongoing.
The Star
a day ago
- Business
- The Star
Hanoi pilots special mechanisms to develop urban railway network
The Cat Linh-Hadong Urban Railway. — VNA/VNS HANOI: Hanoi has issued a resolution introducing a pilot programme for a number of special mechanisms and policies aimed at developing the city's urban railway system. According to the plan accompanying the decision, the city has set clear objectives for fully, strictly and effectively implementing the conclusions of the Politburo and Resolution 188. The plan outlines seven key focus areas, notably including the drafting of specific legal documents to firm up the provisions of the resolution, the planning of the urban railway network and transit-oriented development (TOD) areas, and the preparation and implementation of major investment projects for the 2026-2045 period. Regarding legislative work, the city will establish an inter-agency task force, issue guidance and detailed regulations on route selection, project location, technology transfer mechanisms, design standards and establish criteria for selecting organisations and enterprises to participate in the urban railway sector. The planning efforts will focus on reviewing current land use along railway routes, updating the planning of TOD areas and integrating these into transport and electricity master plans for the capital to ensure sufficient land and energy resources for the projects. For project preparation and implementation, the People's Committee has requested the development of a funding mobilisation plan for the medium-term periods 2026-2030 and 2031-2035. This will involve the flexible use of local budget to advance funds for ODA loan agreement procedures, allocation of public investment capital for certain pre-investment activities and thorough preparation of land clearance, compensation, resettlement and technical infrastructure relocation. Specifically, the city aims to complete the underground section and begin full operation of the Nhon-Hanoi Station line by 2027. In October this year, construction is set to begin on two lines of Line 2 (Nam Thang Long – Tran Hung Dao section) and Line 5 (Van Cao – Hoa Lac section). Between 2026 and 2030, additional sections will be developed, including Line 3 (Hanoi Station – Yen So), Line 2 (Tran Hung Dao – Thuong Dinh), Line 2 (Nam Thang Long – Noi Bai), and the extension of Line 2A to Xuan Mai. Subsequent phases will continue implementing lines as per the master plan to 2045. The People's Committee has instructed relevant departments, agencies, units and local departments along project routes to organise and allocate staff to implement the plan with the highest sense of responsibility. The Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) has been assigned as the standing agency to oversee and coordinate the entire implementation process. — Vietnam News/ANN
The Star
3 days ago
- Business
- The Star
Hanoi pushes private sector growth agenda
Acting boldly: Chinh speaking in Kuala Lumpur recently. The PM is calling for clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of the Vietnamese state, local authorities, businesses and citizens in implementing Resolution 168. — Bernama HANOI: Prime Minister (PM) Pham Minh Chinh on May 31 chaired a dialogue with enterprises and business associations to effectively implement a resolution on the private economy's development. PM Chính said that after the Politburo issued Resolution 68, the government submitted to the National Assembly a proposal to issue Resolution 198 on specific mechanisms and policies to promote private economic development. The government subsequently issued its own programme and action plan to implement the resolution. The PM emphasised that the resolutions are already comprehensive and well-coordinated. The most desired now is to organise implementation effectively, guided by the spirit of 'thinking deeply and acting boldly.' It also needs to find the most efficient approaches to unlock the potential of nearly one million enterprises and five million household businesses. He called for clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of the state, local authorities, businesses and citizens in implementing the resolution. PM Chính also urged unity and coordination with the spirit. 'When the party has provided direction, the government is committed, the National Assembly agrees, the people are supportive and the country is hopeful, we only discuss how to act, not whether to retreat.' At the dialogue, minister and Government Office chairman Tran Van Son announced the decision to establish the National Steering Committee for the implementation of the resolution. Enterprises and business associations expressed their commitment to operating in compliance with the law, fostering business ethics and a healthy business culture, eliminating opportunistic and illegal practices, renewing their business mindset and enhancing their capabilities. 'If everyone joins hands with the government in fully and faithfully implementing the policies that have been set out, I believe all enterprises will grow. That is also a global trend,' Mai Kieu Lien, CEO of Vinamilk, said. Delegates also hoped for continued support from the government to facilitate business and production development. 'The state should soon develop and issue a special mechanism for science and technology enterprises in the agricultural sector, including policies on land, credit, tax and training; and amend the Law on Crop Production to align it with other laws,' Tran Manh Bao from Thai Binh Seed Group said. He suggested establishing innovation support funds and developing a mechanism for cooperation and technology transfer between the public and private sectors. Nguyen Van Khoi, president of the Vietnam Real Estate Association, said the priority is to address institutional bottlenecks and guarantee rights that enable private economic development. — Viet Nam News/ANN
Gulf Today
6 days ago
- Politics
- Gulf Today
How former president Biden cost Democrats the presidency
Carl P. Leubsdorf, Tribune News Service If the goal of Joe Biden's 'Politburo' was to hide reality and convince Americans the former president was fit for another term, it may have been the least successful cover-up since Richard Nixon sought to avoid complicity in the Watergate scandal. That's because even before Biden gave history's worst presidential debate performance — and longer before the recent Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson disclosures of how truly bad things had gotten in the White House — polls showed an overwhelming majority of Americans had already reached the conclusion he should step down. Indeed, members of Biden's palace guard were not the worst villains in this whole unhappy episode, which resulted in the 2024 Democratic loss to Donald Trump. After all, they only did what White House palace guards always do: protect their principal and portray him in the best light. It was the other top Democrats who saw enough and probably knew enough about Biden's age and his mental state to know their party needed a different standard-bearer if it was to prevent the return of Trump — but they lacked the political courage to do anything. After all, it didn't take a political genius to understand that, at the very least, the Democrats had undertaken a giant riverboat gamble in sticking with a president who showed increasing signs of physical and mental frailty and would be 86 at the end of a second term. A few said so publicly, like former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod, and Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, who launched a quixotic primary campaign against Biden. According to Tapper and Thompson, others raised doubts behind the scenes. 'Are we sure this is a good idea?' senior adviser Anita Dunn reportedly asked some colleagues. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Biden directly, 'I'm with you one hundred and ten percent, whatever you want to do. But I want to make sure you want to take this on.' The authors say he suggested on two separate occasions that the real issue was not how Biden felt now but, 'how would he feel in four, five, six years from now?' They write that former White House chief of staff Bill Daley 'felt strongly (in 2023) that the notion that Biden would be up to the task the following year was unsustainable' and reached out to some potential contenders — Governors Gavin Newsom of California, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, J. B. Pritzker of Illinois. But all demurred, reportedly fearing that, if they challenged Biden and he lost, 'they would be blamed.' (In fact, those who vouched for Biden's well-being may suffer; already, former Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra's silence has been questioned by a California gubernatorial primary rival.) On the other hand, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama all won the presidency by taking on an initially resistant Democratic establishment. Nothing came of any of that. And one of the more startling disclosures is that Biden and his wife Jill apparently made his decision to run again without any effort to weigh the pros and cons or seek the views of his advisers. I've always felt that, had the Democrats suffered a traditional 2022 midterm setback instead of faring reasonably well, public pressure to replace Biden would have emerged before the last votes were counted. The irony is that he had almost nothing to do with the Democrats holding those losses to a minimum, though they did lose their House majority. That's because he was already sufficiently unpopular, thanks to factors like lingering inflation and the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan, that most embattled Democrats resisted presidential appearances in their states or districts. That meant that the party failed to suffer the midterm rout many pre-election accounts predicted — despite Biden, not because of him. Still, the outcome deterred potential challengers from undertaking the massive and fraught task of taking on the party's incumbent in the crucial post-election period where they would have needed to start raising money and establishing campaigns in the early primary states. While a challenge might have caused an internal party bloodbath, it might also have precipitated Biden's withdrawal, given the diminished capacities he was showing behind the scenes and — when aides couldn't constrain them — in public. The authors provide additional details for the post-debate pressure that ultimately forced him to withdraw 23 days after the June 27 debate. Among their sources, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer seems to have been most open in recounting the conversation with Biden that finally convinced him he was headed for disastrous defeat. The book accepts the widespread belief that, despite initial enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris' successor candidacy, she was doomed. But they only touch lightly on how the administration's policy failures on inflation and immigration enabled her flawed rival to sway enough 'swing' voters to prevail.
South China Morning Post
28-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi to meet Hong Kong leader before mediation body launch
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi will arrive in Hong Kong on Thursday afternoon and meet the city's leader ahead of a ceremony for the establishment of an intergovernmental mediation organisation in the financial hub, the Post has learned. Advertisement A source familiar with the itinerary said on Wednesday that Wang would be greeted by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Thursday afternoon, followed by a dinner hosted by the city's leader that evening. On Friday morning, Wang is scheduled to attend the signing ceremony of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Wang, who is China's foreign minister and a member of the Politburo, the Communist Party's principal decision-making body, is expected to meet more officials and legal representatives following the ceremony. 'After the full-day event [on Friday], Wang will join a dinner hosted by the Department of Justice,' a second source said, adding that the dinner would be attended by Lee, senior government officials, members of the Executive Council and representatives from the legal sector, among others. Advertisement Wang, who also serves as the deputy chair of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, will leave the city on Saturday, another source told the Post.
