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Kerala: Leader clarifies stand on MEC 7 amidst controversy

In a significant shift, CPI(M) leader and Kozhikode district secretary P Mohanan clarified on Sunday that neither he nor his party had made any statements against the Multi-Exercise Combination (MEC 7), a fitness initiative based in Kerala’s Malabar region.

Burning bright

Hungarian anthropologist Karl Polanyi says that there are certain critical periods of history when time expands. In recent years, time has expanded in Spanish politics.

Cost of subsidy

Media reports over the past week have quoted Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar as having said he lacks funds to pursue development projects after the state government fulfilled the Congress party’s five poll promises which are thought to have been instrumental in helping it to a famous victory in the Assembly election.

Label media

The decision by Twitter to label National Public Radio (NPR) in the USA as “state-affiliated media,” which it then changed to “government-funded media” after a barrage of criticism, underscores the need to rethink the role of major social media platforms as critical gatekeepers in the public sphere.

World News Day: Time to engage

The US president, Joe Biden, was born closer to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency than his own. That perspective shows less the age of the man and more the opportunities and advances that have been taken in the past century, raising with urgency the questions of where we go from here.