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It was a mid-night coup in 2017. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Goods and Services Tax (GST) at a special midnight meeting from the historic Central Hall of Parliament in the presence of President Pranab Mukherjee amidst boycott of the event by the Congress and the Left parties.

Quarter in a quarter. Removing all guesses and estimates about the possible fall in the country’s national income, the Statistical office figures of India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Production) —released Monday evening— shows it to have shrank by 23.4 per cent. That is, GDP shrank by close to a quarter in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (April to June 2020).

The upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament is indeed historic, as since 1952, the Parliament has never deviated from its tradition. This brief session from September 14 to October 1, will see many firsts including staggered seating, different shifts for both the houses, no breaks during the session and social distancing. Prior to this, the budget session was curtailed on March 23 due to Covid. Despite the fact that the pandemic is still continuing Parliament was required to meet to fulfil the Constitutional stipulation.

The Blacklaw’s Dictionary defines hate speech as, “Speech that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, such as a particular race, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence.”

Nothing seems to move the Buddha born in Vadnagar at Gujarat's Mehsana district. Neither the contraction of India’s territorial integrity at the LAC nor the contraction of India’s GDP by a massive 23.9 per cent in the last quarter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is beyond all these events when he is engaged in feeding the peacock who has access to his residence and who cannot be a Covid-19 threat to the lone inhabitant.

New Delhi: India's Kush Maini secured his first win of the 2020 season ,with a controlled drive in the final race of the weekend and extended his championship lead at the Famous Brands Hatch Circuit in the UK.

New Delhi: India’s only individual Olympic Gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, says that he was confident of emerging winner at the Beijing Olympics even before the competition started.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rightly embarked upon a big ticket privatization as part of major reforms to put the struggling economy back on rails in the post corona virus lockdown but the great contribution of public sector in nation building cannot be ignored.

The fractured Grand Alliance (GA) is expected to gain a shape but it depends on the response of the RJD chief Lalu Yadav to the overtures of the left parties and democratic forces. Though the ill treatment meted out to the senior leaders of the Left parties in 2015 and again in 2019 has turned them sceptical of the behaviour of Lalu son, Tejashvi, yet in the interest of the state and to ensure the defeat of the NDA, they have reconciled to the idea of reviving the Greater Alliance.

At long last, the Supreme Court has done it. The apex court has told the king that he is naked.