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Lawyers from across the country have announced that they will observe fast along with the farmers to show solidarity.

Year 2020 has been a bad year for the publishing industry. Retail buying has gone down to near zero. For six months, from March to September, online sales of books too could be counted on the fingertips. It is books that have been on the anvil since 2018 that have been really forged and have been made available in the public domain by major publishers in India after August.

Narendra Modi’s visit and his epilogue at the Aligarh Muslim University would be remembered for its asymmetry. While it reminds of the famous maxim kahin pe nigahe, kahin pe nishana (targeting someone and shooting somebody else) it also attempts at his image makeover in the wake of farmers’ agitation.

The Indian intelligentsia has an incredible propensity to swallow the self-serving arguments of metropolitan capitalism that are typically supposed to constitute ‘economic wisdom’; and nowhere is this more evident than in the case of India’s food economy. There are a plethora of centre-page articles in newspapers these days suggesting that Indian kisans should move away from producing foodgrains towards other crops, which is actually a demand that metropolitan countries have been making for quite some time. They want us to import foodgrains from them, of which they have a surplus, to meet the excess of our domestic demand over domestic production. This would take us back to the pre-Green Revolution days; and now members of the Indian intelligentsia are echoing in various ways this metropolitan demand to diversify away from foodgrains.

The four labour codes initiated by the government had been a matter of serious contention between various forces related to production process. Modi government was always in a hurry to get it passed by Parliament. For the BJP passing a law in Parliament is only a formality. By hook or crook, they would see to it that no meaningful discussions would take place to enrich the law-making process.

Vasco, Goa: Igor Angulo scored a stoppage-time winner to help Goa script a thrilling 2-1 win over Jamshedpur in the Hero Indian Super League at Tilak Maidan, Vasco.

New Delhi: Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi on Wednesday renounced his Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) and asked the committee to remove his name from the stadium stand with immediate effect.

Nearly 30 per cent of West Bengal is Muslims. And Muslims are the deciding factor in all elections. The Congress benefited with Muslims votes. The Left profited with Muslim votes. Trinamool worsted the Left with Muslim votes. Now what? There’s no other ‘secular’ party left to migrate to. The only option is the Bharatiya Janata Party and Muslims are the last people to spread the ‘Chaddar’ for Amit Shah and his defector pal from the Trinamool Congress Suvendu Adhikari.

Quick to condemn progressive Democrats for not exercising enough care to build party unity, centrist and conservative House Democrats, when given their chance to preserve party unity, instead voted by secret ballot on Friday to bar New York’s progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from securing a seat on the important Energy and Commerce Committee.

LUCKNOW: With Asaduddin Owaisi joining hands with Om Prakash Rajbhar and other smaller caste parties, the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha could pose some damage to Samajwadi Party, Congress and BSP in 2022 assembly polls.