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All public institutions like the judiciary, Election Commission, Central Vigilance Commission, Central Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate, National Investigation Agency, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Information Commission, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Parliamentary Standing Committees/ Select Committees/ Joint Committees etc., created to play checks and balances on the government and safeguard people’s basic rights in the scheme of the Constitution of India as part of public participatory democracy, seem to have abdicated their intended role.

New Delhi: The first Cycling Summit in India will be held in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and is expected to be a unique confluence of cycling enthusiasts, renowned athletes and businesses from all over the country.

New Delhi: Veteran tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi has stressed on the need of mental training and infrastructure at grass root level to prepare players for top level competitions at home and abroad.

New Delhi: Verstile goalkeeper Gurpreet Sandhu says that any player who wants to play abroad should be ready for lot of sacrifices and must have steely resolve and commitment to secure place in a football club.

New Delhi: Three-time Asian Tour winner Gaurav Ghei feels that Indian professional Golf has made rapid progress in recent years due to strong domestic backup and PGTI tour.

Despite presenting Nitish Kumar as the chief ministerial face of the NDA for the ensuing assembly election in Bihar, the latest decision of the BJP to contest more seats than agreed, certainly implies that the saffron leadership is giving a second thought to its earlier commitment.

It was a mid-night coup in 2017. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Goods and Services Tax (GST) at a special midnight meeting from the historic Central Hall of Parliament in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee amidst boycott of the event by the Congress and the Left parties.

Quarter in a quarter. Removing all guesses and estimates about the possible fall in the country’s national income, the Statistical office figures of India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Production) —released Monday evening— shows it to have shrank by 23.4 per cent. That is, GDP shrank by close to a quarter in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (April to June 2020).

The upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament is indeed historic, as since 1952, the Parliament has never deviated from its tradition. This brief session from September 14 to October 1, will see many firsts including staggered seating, different shifts for both the houses, no breaks during the session and social distancing. Prior to this, the budget session was curtailed on March 23 due to Covid. Despite the fact that the pandemic is still continuing Parliament was required to meet to fulfil the Constitutional stipulation.

The Blacklaw’s Dictionary defines hate speech as, “Speech that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, such as a particular race, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence.”