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Fr Stan Swamy will no more be present to move a bail petition and bother the judges to spare their precious time to listen to his sufferings. He is a liberated soul. It is for the Director of the NIA to undertake some extra amount of pain to locate his soul, whether it is in hell or heaven, to produce him before the court for being convicted for the crime he never committed in his life.

‘Fluid’ is the word that best describes the Maharashtra political situation with two old flames suddenly discovering that they cannot live apart, that the once live-in relationship ought to be rejuvenated just so that everybody and not just themselves could live happily ever after.

Fuel prices have already tested consumers’ capacity to pay, not necessarily due unduly high crude prices. But the oil market in the past few days have been witnessing wild swings, which also implied the potential for a further spike, which will be disastrous for the Indian consumer.

The recent victories of the left in a number of municipalities and in elections for the Constitutional Convention have set the stage for a categorical rejection of the legacy of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship and the building of a new Chile.

Seven years ago, a 11-year old boy in Jaipur excitedly watched Apurvi Chandela in her shooting gear train at the Jagatpura range. As India’s top woman rifle shooter, Chandela was the new sporting star in the city and inspiring for budding shooters, Divyanath Panwar was among them.

The picture of the unprecedented setback to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the last one and half years of COVID-19 pandemic is indeed worrying, yet brighter future is still possible, for which the next 18 months are crucial, and during this time SDG action could be improved. The new flagship UN Sustainable Development Goals Report (SDGR) 2021 has indicated its possibility and said that countries must take ‘critical’ steps during this time of pandemic.

New Delhi: Ace golfer Udayan Mane has made the cut to become the second Indian in the 60-player field in the men’s golf event at Tokyo Olympics, after Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo announced his withdrawal from the quadrennial event.

Chile’s indigenous population is celebrating a historic victory after the election of a Mapuche woman as president of the country’s Constitutional Convention at its first session on Sunday.

Rafale, the fighter jet France made and India bought. The Modi Government could have chosen the UK’s Eurofighter, but it plumbed for Rafale. Why? There’s a whiff of a kickback, says former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who can’t let go of the thought; more like he wouldn’t let go of the thought. ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’, he coined in 2018, and it became common talk before the 2019 general elections. No prizes for guessing who ‘chowkidar’ was? Everybody knew, especially those who attended Rahul Gandhi’s rallies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used to fondly refer to himself as ‘Chowkidar’, and Rahul Gandhi used to loudly ask people to repeat after him ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’.

All of us want the pandemic to be over. We all want a coherent post-pandemic world. But what really the future holds for us?