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The announcement to form a Third Front by the former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha on Saturday is more than his expression of intent and interest to effectively intervene in the election to the Bihar assembly.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi turned 50 last week and celebrated it quietly in view of the coronavirus outbreak. His father Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister at the age of 40. Rahul too could have become the Prime Minister in 2009 when the Congress returned to power, or at least a minister during the ten years of the UPA rule from 2004 -2014. But he had his own ideas of leadership. At the swearing in ceremony in 2009, I asked him why he did not become a minister and his reply was: “I don’t want to do ten things at a time. I want to do only one thing at a time.”

PM Cares Fund is yet within the womb of secrecy. Prime Minister’s Office has been unwilling to reveal its secrets ever since its conception and inception three months ago. It is a back step since it flouts transparency, one of the fundamentals of good governance, considered to be antidote to corruption. The very name smacks petty politics, which does not mean ‘Prime Minister Cares’. It was simply a backronym deliberately created to hoodwink the people to make them believe that ‘Prime Minister Cares’. Its real name is Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund.

BATH, Maine—Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and a parade of other prominent politicians are supporting the 4,300 Machinists Local S6 workers forced to strike by their bosses at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine.

Imagine for one moment, what it would be like to be kept in jail for years, deprived of your family, your freedom of speech, your liberty of movement and your right to work, merely on suspicion and conjecture. A terrifying concept for most of us, but a grim reality for the prominent human rights advocates (who include lawyers, professors, research fellows, a poet, and an editor), 5 of whom were arrested on 6th June 2018 and 4 of whom on 28th August 2018, in what is now known as the Bhima Koregaon (the BK) case. On 14th April 2020, two other eminent human rights defenders were arrested by the National Investigative Agency (the NIA) in the same matter.

Chinese aggression against India it seems is unstoppable. What’s more, this incursions dates back to the 1950s. Long before Mao Zedong categorized China's ties with India as “armed co-existence.” The transgressions which came with the ‘salami-slicing’ of India’s territory at the LAC has kept India permanently in flux right from 1962.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to build his empire on the foundation of Nehru bashing, he has been outdoing the Emergency of Indira Gandhi by creating a more crude and ruthless Emergency like situation.

Continuous increase in number of COVID 19 cases in the country is a pointer to its community spread. Even though the ICMR does not agree with this, but several Epidemiologists have different opinion. No community transmission of Covid-19 is a falsehood, says Dr Jayaprakash Muliyil, a noted epidemiologist and former Principal, Christian Medical College Vellore.

His party is in disarray. It practises politics only sometimes, as a former M.P. said. It doesn’t have a full-time president, only an interim one. Apparently, the organization is waiting for a sulking former chief to take the reins into his own hands from his mother’s. Yet, there are not a few who believe that this dynasticism is a disastrous recipe in a day and age when the people like to be atma-nirbhar by standing on their own feet, breaking out from the conventions of patriarchy and joint families. From these standpoints, Rahul Gandhi can be said to be on a losing wicket.

China’s fast economic incursion into India looks as portentous as its constant land-grab attempts into Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control. The entire Sino-Indian border (including the western LAC, small undisputed section in the centre, and the McMahon Line in the east) is 4,056-kilometre long and traverses one Indian union territory, Ladakh, and four Indian states: Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh. Surprisingly, India has not been able to control China’s expansionist tactics in both the geo-political and economy fronts.