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It is again Rafale at our door steps as the controversy lands in Supreme Court for the third time. Apart from other issues, question involves also the fact that the deal was made at 41.47 percent higher a rate than the one made earlier. Dassault claimed a1.4 billion euro cost for the ‘design and development’ of 13 India Specific Enhancements, that is, additional capabilities in the form of hardware as well as software that had been specified by the Indian Air Force all along, and this cost was negotiated down to 1.3 billion euro. What it meant was that the design and development cost, now distributed over 36 Rafale fighter jets, shot up from 11.11 million euro per aircraft in 2007 to 36.11 million euro when the deal was struck in 2016.

The subversion of constitutional bodies under the Narendra Modi regime is proceeding apace. Nothing exemplifies this more than what has happened to the Election Commission of India (EC).

Buenos Aires: India ended their tour of Argentina on a memorable note, winning the fourth and final practice match 4-2 here in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.

Buenos Aires: Argentina handed India their first loss of the tour by winning 1-0 in the 3rd practice match of the tour today in Cenard, Buenos Aires.

The writing of history is a sea of thought that encompasses labour and mobility, gender and sexuality, the local and global. It borrows from the prior academic work and historical imagination of the writer. In many cases, the writing of history dialogues with political and social moments of the present. There are many schools of thought regarding the role of the historian, particularly in relation to her socio-political environment. Questions emerge, such as, what the responsibility of the historian is towards the discipline and society, those of ethics and methodology, and whether history can be written detached from one’s environment.

Keshubhai Patel, awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously, was one of the tallest leaders of Gujarat. Towards the fag end of his career, he gave a fight to Narendra Modi before he (Modi) became the Chief Minister for the first time. Modi, having ruled Gujarat for 13 years, became the Prime Minister. Keshubhai may have faded from limelight, but he remains an icon for BJP in Gujarat. , He joined the RSS in 1940. He was jailed during Emergency. Keshubhai was instrumental in creating a social base for the BJP in a state where the Congress was the dominant party.

LONDON—On May 6, voters in Britain will go to the polls in local elections that will see the largest number of candidates representing the Communist Party since the early 1980s. Candidates will be campaigning in the Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, and London, Assembly as well as in English local councils.

It was a protest with a difference on Tuesday by Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee. If opposition leaders appeared at the dharna place to express their solidarity with Mamata Banerjee, Hindu religious leaders and Muslim clerics were also present. The woman general secretary of the Hindu Maha Sabha unambiguously extended the support and was also highly critical of the action of Sunil Arora, the outgoing chief election commissioner. She openly said that EC has been acting at the direction of the BJP leaders.

Vaccine net expansion in India’s arsenal in fighting the COVID-19 battle is certainly a wise decision of the Modi government, though taken only after a great loss of lives and livelihoods, and tremendous pressure from the people, experts, and the opposition. However, it may not prove to be a magic wand, especially at a time when taming of the second COVID-19 wave has just got tougher than ever before, with unprecedented spike in infection, positivity, and mortality rates. The decision, therefore, needs to be followed by better strategy, faster than the spread of the infection.

The current assembly elections in West Bengal are showing some similarities in tenor of campaigning and the participation of the Prime Minister as was evident in the 1987 assembly elections. But the actors are different. In 1987, Rajiv Gandhi as the Congress Prime Minister took it as a personal challenge in the 1987 poll to dethrone the Left Front Government led by the chief minister Jyoti Basu while in the current assembly elections, the Left Front is having a small side role.