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It may sound ironic, but Bangladesh and China have profited substantially from the NDA Government’s cattle export ban introduced in mid 2014.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was absolutely right in his avowal that second wave of corona which consumed lakhs of innocent people happened because of Narendra Modi failing to perform his moral responsibilities.

The BJP’s opponents had easily outrun the saffron party in the last round of assembly elections, winning in three – West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – of the four states. Even in the fourth, Assam, they performed well enough in terms of vote share if not seats with the opposition combine securing 43.5 per cent of the votes against the BJP-Asom Gana Parishad’s 44.4 per cent.

It remains a big mystery over the last seven years of the BJP rule as to why the government continues to defend an indefensible law, allowing retrospective tax demand on companies, enacted in 2012 by the previous United Progressive Alliance regime. The law was a brainchild of then union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who later became the President of India. Interestingly, several Congress stalwarts such as Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal, opposed the retrospective tax. Two years after BJP came to power with a massive mandate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known as an admirer of the late Pranab Mukherjee, himself told a foreign investors’ meet at Riyadh that retrospective taxation had been made a thing of the past.

New Delhi: Pooja Rani was the lone Indian woman pugilist to win the gold as she outpunched in-form Mavluda Movlonova to retain the title while her three other compatriots lost their final bouts at the ASBC Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai.

New Delhi: Campaigner Mary Kom, defending champion Amit Panghal and five other Indian pugilists will be seen in action in the finals at the 2021 ASBC Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai.

Canadian media and politicians claim that the country’s public health care system is “what separates us from the Americans.” Social democrats have baptized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)/New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tommy Douglas as the “Father of Medicare,” the official name for Canada’s health system. Election after election, opinion polls position healthcare as one of the key public concerns. Yet, for all this attention, the history of the struggle for socialized medicine in Canada remains poorly understood.

The devastating impact of the second wave of Covid-19 and the bitter truth about the impending third wave is alarming to the federal structure of the country as presently, there are more than 306 districts with a positivity rate of 20 percent or higher.

Second wave of COVID has placed Modi government on the back foot. Public resentment against the government is rising. But he is lucky in absence of a national alternative to take on the government. He faces stiff resistance from the regional parties. But the regional parties are yet to be united. Who is to unite the regional forces. Unlike Jayprakash Narayan or Anna Hazare who had been projected as national heroes, there is no such person in sight. It now rests upon a pan-India party to unite these regional parties in one platform. It is the responsibility of Congress, which has a pan-India presence and single largest Opposition in the Parliament, to do so. But the burning question is - are the regional forces willing to unite under the leadership of the Congress?

Malayalam actor Prithviraj Sukumaran stands with the people of Lakshadweep who want Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel upended in the Arabian Sea at a spot far away from Gujarat, which is where Patel, a close acquaintance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, belongs to. For those walking in late, the people of Lakshadweep, a Union Territory in the Arabian Sea, are up in arms against Khoda Patel because he has come up with a clutch of draft regulations that, they claim, will significantly alter the political architecture and cultural ethos of Lakshadweep, which is 96% Muslim and uniquely tribal.