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Jawaharlal Nehru could not carry out the Gandhian advice but his descendents provided grounds to halt the polluted Ganges from flowing down by reducing the Congress to immaterial force in national political arena.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s worst fears, voiced by both Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister K K Shailaja, appear to be coming true.

Beauty lay in the eyes of the beholder. Post-Covid, not any longer. Beauty now lies hidden behind masks and inside protective gloves.

Baba Ramdev has done a disservice to Ayurveda. He puts out Coronil, a drug in the market that claims nothing short of being a “cure” for the worst public health crisis we have faced in a long time. Soon, it turns out that the drug had failed to meet both scientific protocols and regulatory requirements. This episode reinforced all the modern stereotypes of traditional medicine – that of mumbo-jumbo peddled by charlatans and quacks. Specifically, it buttresses an old but ill-informed skepticism about Ayurveda, that while it might it have a strong knowledge of plants and their medicinal value, it is not evidence-based, that it has unstructured concepts that are not believable, and that it cannot explain how it knows what it knows.

New fans or rather heavy critics of the Congress regimes are using a request letter to Nehru from the nephew of Abdul Gaffar Khan to merge Baluchistan as province of India though it was in the midst of Pakistan. However, Nehru did not respond to it with action. The point is circulated in a message on social media to add to political follies of Jawaharlal Nehru.

The deaths of a father and son, Jayarajan and Bennix, after brutal torture in a police station at Sathankulam in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu have caused widespread outrage. Equally shocking has been the attempted cover-up by the police authorities and the underplaying of the crime by the AIADMK government. It required the intervention of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court to establish prima facie charges of murder against the police officers concerned and to order an investigation by the CB-CID.

The London High Court's decision to withhold much needed financial support from Venezuela amounts to “slavishly following [US President] Trump’s illegal regime change agenda and nothing else,” campaigners said today.

What we currently have in India is more of a gross abuse of policing power of the state, rather than a mass incarceration situation like the U.S. It is true that minorities in India are over-represented in the prison population just like the U.S. It is also true that there are more caste and religious minorities on death row in India, than the rest of the population. Police are biased and abuse their power against vulnerable communities. This data is enough to recognize how casteist and sectarian policing is in India. However, the crucial difference is that the vast majority of Indian prison population are under-trials and not convicts, which means that this population so far has not been stagnant. Broken, corrupt prosecutorial system, and low conviction rates are the major reasons behind this difference.

BHOPAL: For all practical purpose it was not BJP ministry which was expanded on July 2 but a coalition ministry having three constituents – Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia and BJP. The largest number in the ministry belongs to Scindia faction, second largest to BJP and third to Chouhan. Scindia managed to get 12 berths, all the new entrant to the BJP do not owe their loyalty to Shivraj Singh Chouhan and a few, not more than six or seven can be deemed to be Shivraj loyalists.

LUCKNOW: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's decision to shift to Lucknow has not only boosted the morale of Congress Party but also brought her to the centre stage of opposition politics in UP.