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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Metroman E. Sreedharan’s decision to join the BJP has given the party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Kerala a big boost. The big question, however, is: can the ace technocrat’s decision work wonders for the BJP?

The little girl Disha Ravi who was charged by the Delhi police of conspiring against the sovereignty of the country and placed in custody for nine days by the Delhi police has exposed the true colour of our law and order machinery.. While slapping sedition charges the police had projected Disha as the biggest anti-national.

Dark Days are coming back, with new machines, new production process, new skills and also the corporates nourishing new levels in the evolution of finance capital. Shedding off the assertion of rights, criminalisation of any attempt to speak out against attacks on democratic ethos, thus dwarfing everything sacred are the beginning of backsliding. Every act of injustice, rationalised or not, is celebrated. One of them is making a work day twelve hours long. It was against these irregular practices imposed on those who create the base of society, the demand was raised for eight- hour work day that got universal acceptance, but that came later.

New Delhi: Talented Jyoti Gulia produced a awesome performance to stun two-time world champion Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan and moved d into the quarter-finals of women's 51kg category at the 72nd Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.

New Delhi: World Cup Qualifiers for Equestrian Tent Pegging scheduled to be held in Greater Noida from 11 – 14 March.

Ahmedabad: Promising youngster Manu Gandas (Gurugram) produced a fiery bogey-free six-under-30 featuring five straight birdies to seize the halfway lead at seven-under-65, at the Glade One Masters Golf here on Wednesday.

LUCKNOW: AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi is making serious efforts to win over powerful backward caste Nishad community for Congress in Uttar Pradesh.

The renowned Islamic Scholar Wahiduddin Khan Khan has been conferred with Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, for his contribution to spirituality. The 96-year--old Maulana is widely respected for his commentary of the Quran, besides his enlightened views on much debated subjects such as women’s rights on Islam, instant triple talaq, jehad, terrorism and family planning. Wahiduddin Khan has not confined himself to Urdu often being read in English and Hindi.

The beginning of the disengagement of Indian and Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh has given a tremendous boost to our amour propre. The feeling is that “we have not yielded to them, we have stood up to them. They are retreating now.” Given China’s overall policy and hostile attitude to India, one is tempted to recall what Marshal Foch said when the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919, formally ending the First World War. The French General said: “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.” He was uncannily prescient. Exactly twenty years later, in 1939, the Second World War began.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has raised very pertinent objections to the promotion of CORONIL by the Health Minister on the grounds of science as well as medical ethics. The Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan is an ENT Surgeon trained in modern medicine. It would be naïve to believe that he is unaware of the number of and types of clinical trials any new medicine/ vaccine has to pass through before being put to use.