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When Dictator meets Democrat -Vatsala Mishra The recent meeting in Singapore has made the entire world awestruck. The reactions coming out straight from the White House are not normal. In his term, nobody has seen Trump falling head over heels for any leader. The kind of remarks Trump made post-meeting is not the world saw coming up. So what shall we assume? Did Trump really got hoodwinked or is he just being pretentious? If we talk about the deal, one could easily see that Trump did not make any extraordinary attempts to de- nuclearize North Korea. Instead, North Korea made the best use of the opportunity and not only convinced U.S to provide securitization, but also made him stop the military exercises with South Korea. Choson Simbo, North Korea’s propaganda voice, as published in Tokyo has said that one of the essential condition of denuclearization is termination of American strategic commitments which includes provision of nuclear umbrella to Republic of Korea, and...

Islam is historically started from the Quran which is a compilations of revelations to Prophet Mohammed during the years 610 CE to 632 CE. It was not written by prophet himself but has been orally transferred to his followers and later has been complied by third khalifa with the help of direct receivers of sermons from Mohammed. A follower of Islam is bound to accept the shahadah which says “there is no god, but god, and Prophet Mohammed is the messenger of the god”. As religion it views world as tawahid , meaning the unity of god and unity of his creation. Its fundamentals consists of ilm (Knowledge), adl (distributive social justice), ijtihad (sustained intellectual reasoning). Din is “way of life” and it is considered to be different in different parts of the world. It emphasizes that all exists shares a basic unity and partakes of a common sacredness, all is interconnected. This new religion has conquered the remaining Arab world which was politically weak. Its expansion i...

US Electorates and Public Sphere Dr. Craig L. Dicker - the department of Public affairs US embassy , New Delhi visited Christ University to speak on the US electoral process with special reference to 2016 presidential elections . This session was held in Christ University, Bengaluru on 2 August 2016 , by the Department of International studies and History Dr Craig began with quoting the Indian Express’ article which said that the candidate who has secured the majority in the opinion polls 2 weeks after nominations would eventually win the elections. From the article written in The Hindu “it can be seen that Mrs. Clinton is leading 2%. ”   We have to wait for the November 8 th to see if this holds on. Explaining the electoral process, he divided the districts into democratic strong holds, republican strong holds and flip sates. Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Virginia were considered as major flip states whose vote bank plays a major role in...