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Although Donald Trump’s legal team is losing court battles left and right, its false narrative of voter fraud run amok has emboldened the Republican party’s ongoing strategy of voter suppression.

An Indo-Japanese joint venture (JV) initiative recently winning a $500 million (Rs 31.9 billion) lump sum contract in the construction of the Dhaka Metro has brought justifiable satisfaction among Indian Railways officials. Such news allays recent fears expressed in some quarters as to whether such a bilateral effort involving India and Japan to help a third country would be acceptable to Bangladesh.

BHOPAL: Only after the lapse of one month since the declaration of 28 Assembly by-poll results the state has started going in the election mode again. This time it is the turn of election to local bodies particularly Municipal Corporations. With the process of reservation of Mayor’s post aver intense lobbying has started for the posts of mayors.

History is full of governors and chief ministers going hammer and tong at each other, producing fireworks which at first regale and then rock the boat with repercussions felt far and wide. That said, there are no two excuses for a governor if he turns hostile on the orders of an external force.

Resurrecting a dead professor from Harvard Law School to suit ultra-nationalist interests is only the tip of the scam-berg that has been exposed in the recent EU DisinfoLab 2020 report, called the “Indian Chronicles”. A vast transnational political scam, funded by a certain Srivastava Group, has been brewing for over a decade and half, with hundreds of fake websites, shadowy thinktanks and lobbying groups hustling it out in Geneva and Brussels targeting the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as well as pliable Members of the European Parliament, often of a converging far-right ideology, to serve “pro-India interests”. But a harder look makes it clear that those interests are not at all pro-India, at least for the India that believes in constitutionalism, democracy, secularism and good-old diplomacy to make its case, instead of bankrolling nefarious organisations that hijack the human rights discourse for a far-right agenda.

Unless the Modi government shows mercy, which is most unlikely, the plight of fuel consumers is set to worsen in the days to come. Already, prices are near all-time highs and going by current indications, the upward movement will continue without any reprieve.

Every nation has a message to deliver, a mission to fulfil, a destiny to reach. The mission of India has been to “guide humanity”, Shri Swami Vivekananda rightly said. India is striving hard to achieve the objective of social welfare through its parliamentary democracy.

Bengaluru: Women's Hockey Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne feels that the coaching cum training programme of the players preparing for the Olympic Games next year is on the right track.

Fatorda, Goa: Hyderabad held Mohun Bagan to a 1-1 draw to remain unbeaten in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium, on Friday.

Farming community of India is on war path against the NaMo government for its move that seeks to downgrade interests of the farming community to benefit the trading community as three farm law reforms indicate. The reforms not only end the assured minimum support price for farm products but take away also their fundamental right to move courts against injustice merely on pretext that new decisions were in good faith. No one can question actions to ascertain whether the so called good faith is justice or not. Farmers are not articulate to the injustice involved in the reform laws but they know which side their bread slice has butter. The grain producers of North initiated the war move sand now other farm community also. Their demand is to repeal new farm laws. The government is ready to meet their demand to preserve their interests but no repeal new law as it provides protection to the establishment. The war is thus essentially for preservation of the democratic structure and not merely for bread.