NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||20th MAY2026
NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||20 th MAY2026 WEDNESDAY| VOL—V/2026/MAY OPINIONATED, FOR FREE CIRCULATION. * कष्टः खलु पराश्रयः।* Dependence is indeed painful. INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY). Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin likely to be in Delhi for BRICS meet. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (May 19, 2026) landed in Italy, where he will be meeting his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella, and discuss with them ways to boost India-Italy cooperation. ‘Offer prayers in shifts’: Yogi Adityanath warns against namaz on roads, tells Muslims to ‘control’ population numbers. One Ladakh, two administrative logics: Tell someone that a region covers fifty-nine thousand square kilometres — a little larger than Himachal Pradesh — and they will say it needs at least twelve districts, the way Himachal does. Tell them the same region has only three lakh people, and they will say one district would do. ...