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The great Indian rope trick is widely considered as the ultimate act of illusion. There are different versions of the magic, depending on the ingenuity of the presenter. But essentially, the trick comprises a magician converting a rope into a rod on which he or one of his assistants can climb and perhaps disappear into the air, before ultimately reappearing on the ground.

The ascent of a member of the Thackeray family to the Maharashtra chief minister’s post had persuaded the Shiv Sena to tone down its customary belligerence. There was to be no more blackening of faces or forcing food into the mouth of a Muslim during Ramzan. The sainiks were expected to behave like normal people and not street-level thugs.

The brewing military tension between India and China may not escalate into a war unless China goes crazy about testing its defence capability on India after a gap of five decades. Time has changed. India’s military and economic strength today is far advanced compared to that in 1962. Now, taking on India militarily is going to be far more complex, if not quite risky, for China. Even a chance defeat of China on the Himalayan heights could substantially puncture its global military pride.

COVID-19 has provided great opportunities to the government to implement whatever they want to on the one hand, and a weapon to suppress any organized resistance of the people on the other. Modi government is hell bent on exploiting this situation. The three ordinances relating to agriculture market reform notified as part of the Special Economic Package purportedly to stimulate India’s agriculture sector in the post-COVID-19 economy is the latest example, which is being opposed by the farmers, but will soon be quelled by implementing physical distancing norms. The monsoon session of the parliament may witness uproarious scenes on the issue, but the bills are most likely to be passed and enacted this month itself.

New Delhi: Some of the leading Doctors and paramedical staff of the capital showcased their musical and singing skills as they paid a musical tribute to Corona Warriors at a function organised by New Delhi YMCA here last night.

New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals on Sunday named spin wizard Shane Warne as its brand ambassador for the second year in a row.

It has been almost 20 years since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed another into a field in Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt. On that day, 2,977 people lost their lives, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of grieving family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbours. First responders in the immediate target cities and volunteers from around the country courageously rushed to aid those in need, coming together in a moment of national unity unmatched since perhaps Pearl Harbour.

The judiciary is the last resort of the distressed, the deprived and the despondent. Naturally, they expect a humanitarian and empathic response from it. But it isn’t always so.

It’s another Saturday and if we thought it will be weekend as usual, we were wrong. Tension continues to brew. Both at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between wannabe superpower China and regional bulwark India and in Mumbai and Bengaluru, where the fair and lovely of Bollywood and Kollywood are being hauled and forced to trudge over the coals for alleged drug abuse and drug peddling.

Police and intelligence agencies acting in a reckless manner driven with sense of vengeance and self-promotion has been an old machination, but the difference between the old and the latest tactics is its ruthlessness and resorting to brutality to finish the accused and his or her family if not completely eliminating the person concerned. We have heard of police jargon “case connection”, but now in the case of the case of violence that had taken place in Bhima Koregaon of Pune in 2018, we witness use of this stratagem to silence the voice of protest.