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When Anita Ghai, a prominent disability rights advocate, said that the heterogeneity of disability is often ignored in terms of governance and policymaking, she had a point.

While evolving the strategy to fight the corona pandemic, the policymakers found the phrase “social distancing” as the most convenient tool to fight the menace. But unfortunately they could not comprehend that it has a dangerous dimension and it would expose society’s fragility.

The Congress party is facing an unprecedented power struggle from within, which has cost the Grand Old Party dear. The Congress is almost imploding. It had lost a big state like Madhya Pradesh just a few weeks ago and is in the process of losing another big state Rajasthan. Even if the Ashok Gehlot government survives the present crisis, which it may, the Damocles sword is hanging over it in view of the fragile majority in the house.

Notice by the Broadcasting Corporation of India (Prasar Bharati) that owns All India Radio and Door Darshan to the Press Trust of India (PTI), the national news agency of repute widely known for its colourless factual reporting of news that enjoys high public credibility, threatening it that the public broadcasters will stop subscription of the news agency for its “anti-national” reporting of an interview by Chinese Ambassador to India in June 2020 followed by another notice a fortnight thereafter on July 7, 2020 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development charging the PTI for misuse of lease agreement of the government land housing its headquarters on Delhi’s Parliament Street with a penalty of 84.48 crore and payment of the same within a month shows that the NDA Union Government is out to finish the news agency and prop up some other captive news agency. It also forms part of the subversion of media under the current fascist Sangh regime.

New Delhi: As expected the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the postponement of the Men’s T20 World Cup scheduled to be played in Australia later this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was slated to take place between 18 October and 15 November.

On the occasion of World Population Day recently, we witnessed the all too familiar chorus of demands for a population control law. Unfortunately, most of these demands involve making the two-child norm compulsory such that a wide gamut of individual rights and benefits can be denied in case of non-compliance, thus allowing for unreasonable state interference in the private sphere. This rhetoric has also become a potent tool for blaming religious minorities and economically weaker sections, leaving little room for a nuanced discussion based on the changing socio-economic realities of India.

The political leadership of the capitalist countries and their policymakers are in a state of utter slipup on how Putin got massive mandate and also how to deal with Russia and its economy under him. While slapping sanction the Western world had visualised that Putin would come to his knees and abide by their dictates. But it did not happen.

Since last year’s debacle of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, the party has refused to go for a deep introspection and an overall systematic change from top to bottom. Instead, Rahul Gandhi resigned as the party president —not mainly for owning his responsibility for the party’s disaster at the elections — but for the grudge he held against the seniors of the party, who according to him didn’t support his campaign of alleged corruption in Rafael against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. More correctly, the Congress party actually lost the plot much before the election results due to Rahul’s wrong political strategy to attack Modi led BJP.

It is not as difficult as it may seem to guess the outcome of some of the elections later this year and during 2021. The predictions are fairly easy if the present trends in the poll-bound states are kept in mind. To take the more or less surefire results first, it seems obvious that the DMK will emerge victorious in Tamil Nadu. It should not find it too demanding to overcome an AIADMK weakened by Jayalalithaa’s demise.

India is the cheapest producer of electricity from coal, solar and wind sources in the entire Asia Pacific region. It is the only country in the region where solar power costs almost 14 percent less than that of thermal power. However, in terms of tariffs paid by Indian consumers, electricity charges are among the highest, much higher than those in countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam and China.