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Cuttack: The first edition of the Khelo India University Games was declared open by Prime Minster Narendra Modi through a video link here on Saturday.

Bhubaneswar: World Recurve Cadet Champion Komolika Bari (Kolhan University, Chaibasa) shot 665 points, to lead women’s recurve qualification while World Junior Championship team medallist Sangampreet Bisla (Punjabi University, Patiala) shot 704 to lead men’s team compound ranking in the inaugural Khelo India University Games here on Saturday.

LIC continues to be in front page news for wrong reasons. Stories are in circulation in the media, more so in the news portals that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s disinvestment targets make worsen LIC’s health and wealth. There are headlines that LIC’s bad loans have bulged by 145 per cent in the last five years to Rs 30,000 crore as on September 30, 2019. Concern for the continued good financial health of LIC is quiet in order. The nation and its people have great stakes in the LIC.

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.

A delegation of the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH) in a memorandum submitted to the Chairperson of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), Ms Shubhra Singh, has demanded that the prices of drugs which include medicines, consumables and medical devices should be streamlined. The profit on these should be capped at 30per cent from the ex-factory price to the consumer. At present it is up to 5000 per cent in some cases as observed by the Committee on High Trade Margins in the Sale of Drugs.

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.