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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.

Chennai: KY Ahamed led an emphatic 1-2 finish for TVS Racing as he vanquished his mentor and multiple champion Jagan Kumar to win the premier Pro-Stock 301-400cc race in the first round of the MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Friday.

Goa: Winless Odisha face a tough challenge as they take on Goa in the Hero Indian Super League Season at the GMC Stadium, here on Saturday.

Gurugram: Amandeep Drall warded off a determined challenge from Sehar Atwal as she hit two birdies in the last four holes to return 1-over 73 last round to win the eighth leg of Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour by three shots at the DLF Golf and Country Club here on Friday.

The COVID-19 pandemic raging across the globe has led to the closure of schools. In India alone, it has affected the education of nearly 290 million children. Already, there were six million children out of school. This number threatens to go up due to economic insecurity in their families due to COVID-19, causing many children to leave studies.