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The Delhi serological survey results have astonished all, exposed mishandling and failure of COVID-19 containment measures, and provided a proof that our Government agencies have been groping in the dark. We did not have realtime figures of actual number of patients even in the National Capital city. As against the official figure of the incidence of infection hitherto maintained, the actual infection level had been at least as high as 36 times.

The ordinance on nationalisation of 14 commercial banks, promulgated on July 19, and presented in Lok Sabha on July 21, 1969 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a momentous decision to achieve one of the prime goals spelt out in the Constitution The Communist Party of India had demanded within Parliament and outside and launched struggles too for this cause earlier. In 1966, CPI MP Bhupesh Gupta had strongly raised the issue in the Lok Sabha. Finally, when the ordinance was brought, the step was supported by all progressive and left parties, prominent among them being the CPI.

The political drama in Rajasthan, consequent to the revolt of Sachin Pilot who was the deputy chief minister and PCC president, is still unfolding. But the essential contours have become clear. The inner tussle in the Congress cannot be separated from the BJP’s drive to destabilise non-BJP state governments, in particular Congress ones.

New Delhi: Captain and ace midfielder Manpreet Singh has exuded confidence that Indian hockey team will put up a podium finishing show at the Tokyo Olympic next year.

New Delhi: It has been 40 years since India won Hockey Gold in the Olympic. Vasudevan Baskaran has the distinction of leading the side to the top of the Podium at Moscow Olympics in 1980.

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is all-subsuming. The pandemic makes it difficult to think or act on all the issues that made up our world yesterday and will stay in our world of tomorrow.

Seventy-two members of the Civil Society including senior government officials, academics, activists and lawyers have sought free and fair investigation into the riots that took place in North East Delhi from February 23 to 26 this year. In their letter sent to the President Ramnath Kovind, they demanded that the real instigators of the violence and killings should be prosecuted.

LUCKNOW: The silence of three major political parties — Samajwadi Party, BSP and the Congress —on scheduled puja on August 5 at Ayodhya for the Ram Mandir has baffled political commentators as well as media-persons. When contacted, none of the leaders from these major political parties showed any willingness to talk on this sensitive issue. They indicated that they had received no directive from the top leadership to speak on this issue as yet.

While the Bengal BJP unit has been witnessing the worst kind of factional feud, which has stooped low to the extent of trading personal accusations and charges, even allegation of womanising against some leaders, the TMC boss Mamata Banerjee has embarked on the path of weeding out the corrupt and sleazy leaders from the party.

At a time when Covid-19 is chipping away at life and liberty and the nutty coronavirus behaviour is going from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’, infecting tens of thousands across India, the political sideshow – being played out in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and partially enacted in BJP-ruled Haryana – is confounding ardent Congress supporters. ‘Aakhir Kyun?’ is the unasked question. Why are Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi allowing matters to deteriorate?