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After the tumultuous Congress Working Committee meeting on Monday, the Gandhi family must be feeling the old adage ‘ All is well that ends well.” It is indeed a victory that the majority of the CWC members wanted Sonia to continue as the interim president till the AICC is held and a new president is elected. This means the family will be in power to manipulate the AICC and the president’s elections. It is likely to be soon as the family also wants to put an end to the present dissidence in the party.

BERLIN — “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” Nearly every German knows the story of Snow White. Currently, the question of who is “fairest of them all” faces nearly every German political party or, in modern terms, who can attract more votes in next year’s election.

LUCKNOW: CPI national secretary Atul Anjaan said during pandemic, the main opposition parties are not visible on ground nor they are active to challenge BJP for assembly polls in 2022.The only activity from the opposition was visible during three day assembly session which concluded two days back.

When career conscious Bengali youths and students are keeping away from political parties and refuse to indulge in discussing political dialectics, it has been a pleasant surprise that at least 10,000 youths joined the Trinamool Congress in 14 districts of the state on Sunday.

Refusal of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia to meet a delegation led by Pakistan’s Chief of Army Qamar Javed Bajwa indicates the expansion of cleavage in the Islamic world whose rock-like solidarity no more exists. Although the schism is mainly over the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, the new reality is a hitherto unthinkable New Delhi-Washington-Islamabad of a new order.

New Delhi: A stadium named after one of country's best footballers Bhaichung Bhutia will be inaugurated in Namchi — twenty-five kilometres away from the maestro's birthplace, Tinkitam in the district of South Sikkim, after Covid-19 subsides.

New Delhi: Women's Hockey Team Defender Gurjit Kaur on Monday opined that learning the art of drag-flicking properly has been the turning point of her career.

It is indeed a significant political development in Jammu and Kashmir, where prominent mainstream political parties have joined hands to demand the restoration of Article 370 and statehood. It was on August 5 last year that the Centre after beefing up army presence, detaining leaders of Kashmir’s major political parties revoked Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories. There are multiple petitions are before the Supreme Court about its constitutionality.

The problem which an authoritarian regime faces in a democracy is that it cannot keep a lid on dissent indefinitely. It isn’t only that the assertions before the judiciary that criticism of the government is not an anti-national activity become public knowledge in an open society, thereby raising doubts about official crackdowns on critics, those in detention also cannot be kept behind bars for long.

Few can really explain India’s unusual economic trends where markets — from retail consumer to share market — prices are shooting up despite massive depression in the job market, heavy contraction in industrial production and consumption, near absence of large parts of the services sector, comprising travel and entertainment, and big loss of general public income. The pandemic has impacted the world economy. Markets are down almost everywhere, except probably India. Few have enough money to spend even on daily dire necessities.