Nicotine’s classification as a poison beyond certain limits reflects decades of scientific and regulatory consensus. It is therefore difficult to justify the current excessive sales and marketing of Recreational Nicotine Pouches, especially when the legal foundations for control are already well established.
There have been many instances in the annals of human history where great souls like Swami Vivekananda, among others, have left their body by will. One can speculate that a laser-like thought which is a sum and substance of the basic lifetime memory when willfully ejected results in bodily death.
The United States and India do not need a new slogan. They need a more serious water agenda. First, diplomats should make water quality a standing subject in development talks, not a footnote under climate or rural infrastructure. The agenda should separate clean water from biologically safe water.
What protects communities is not mythology, but preparation, surveillance, trust, and timely action. When societies learn that lesson before an outbreak peaks, lives are saved. When they learn it during the peak — in crowded hospital corridors, in queues for oxygen cylinders that have run out — the cost is not measured in statistics alone. It is counted in funerals.
According to EU figures, 8,975 Indians filed for asylum applications across the EU in 2023. This figure fell to 8,676 in 2024. A total of 40,385 citizens from Bangladesh applied for asylum in the year 2023, which increased to 42, 236 in 2024. The EU figures did not mention the grounds for those seeking asylum from India or Bangladesh.
