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The month long election to Bihar Assembly likely to be held from October 21 to November 20 is pregnant with possibility of former JNU students' leader Kanhaiya Kumar and poll strategist Prashant Kishor coming together to challenge the JD(U)-BJP combination led by Nitish Kumar.

On 19th February, 2020, the Supreme Court Collegium, which decides the appointment of judges to the High Courts and the Supreme Court, recommended the transfer of Justice S. Muralidhar, a noted and upright judge of the Delhi High Court to the Punjab & Haryana High Court. While a big gain to the Punjab & Haryana High Court, it was seen as a considerable loss to the Delhi High Court, and many viewed it as a ‘punitive’ transfer, since Justice Muralidhar had given many significant decisions in recent times, including quashing the transit remand of Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon cases in 2018. At the same time, it is important to note that how a fair judge adds value to every High Court, especially the ones in the smaller Courts, not that P&H High Court is a small one.

It is a matter of shame that even after 73 years of country’s Independence nothing substantial have been done for agriculture. Governments have come and gone but none of them have been able to understand the real problem of the farmers. Continual suicides of farmers are going on unabated. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced to double farmers’ income by 2022. But has he drawn up the blueprint for doing so? Has he understood the real problem of the farmers?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: February 20, 2020 will go down in the history of Kerala as a day that witnessed a horrifying tragedy. The people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu woke up to a terrible road accident that snuffed out 19 precious lives.

The Brihat Mumbai Corporation (BMC) decision to appoint safety auditors to determine design faults in road construction that are mostly responsible for road accidents marks a change of approach to one of the long-neglected aspects of road safety in India. The civic corporation has identified hundreds of ‘black spots’ or accident-prone spots that have been found responsible for a high number of accidents due to poor road design. The new move is to eliminate design flaws causing accidents and execute alterations in the road designs with the help of global consultants.

Manmohan Singh’s biography by former Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia reveals many facets of the former Prime Minister’s personality and landmark decisions taken during his ten-year rule. One of the most significant achievements of former PM was the conclusion of the Indo-US nuclear agreement. Manmohan Singh rightly believed that the non-proliferation regime had imposed a ‘nuclear apartheid’ on India and it would be a major long-term gain for ‘our economy’ if we could get these restriction lifted.

In the aftermath of the spectacular AAP victory in Delhi polls, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) has effected a tactical shift in its dealings with the Centre. From now on, its policy of all-out opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be laced with a more conciliatory approach, especially relating to issues concerning centre-state relationship.

Mumbai: There was heart-break for Mumbai City in the most poetic form when Lucian Goian scored the winner against his former club to help Chennaiyin qualify for the Hero Indian Super League playoffs after a tightly-contested clash at the Mumbai Football Arena here on Friday.

Donald Trump and Narendra Modi can be rightly termed as birds of the same feather. They share many things in common. Allegiance to corporate capital, hatred towards minorities, contempt for immigrants, preaching of Islamophobia, etc, are their most savoured traits. That is why within no time they became thick friends, both politically and individually. For the first Republic Day celebrations in his second innings of power, Narendra Modi's desire was to invite Donald Trump as the guest of honour. Though he was inclined to accept the invitation Trump was forced to drop it due to pre-occupations at home. That vacuum was filled by Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil. He is also another bird of Modi-Trump feather.

In the lead-up to the statewide Democratic primary caucus on Saturday, February 22, Nevada’s early voters on February 15, the first day, turned out in record numbers—more than 18,500 Democrats, almost twice the turnout on the first day of advance caucusing in 2016.