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Media reports had raised a scare about the possibility of another gold control order mandating the compulsory declaration of all household gold and gold jewellery. According to these reports, the move was to be accompanied by a gold amnesty scheme that will allow individuals and households to declare their holdings of the yellow metal, giving them an opportunity to come clean on their assets.

CIA-funded militia forces in Afghanistan have been accused of war crimes including extra-judicial killings and the targeting of clinics, according to health workers on the ground. Soldiers in a secretive pro-Afghan government militia known simply as “01” have “committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability,” a report from an NGO suggests.

The Uranium mining in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, has led to opposition from various sections of the society. The political parties, environmental groups, science associations, medical personnel and the local tribal people are up in arms against it. Several studies have shown that Uranium mining is coupled with hazards to human health and detrimental effect on the flora and fauna around.

With Brexit becoming reality after January 2020, a new dimension in UK-India economic relation will set off. It will throw new challenges to deepen the relation with UK, after its exclusion from EU.

Like his big brother, the chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar too is haunted by the element of erosion of the credibility. The situation has simply been aggravated by the jibes and snide hurled by the state BJP leaders at Nitish. The relation between the two NDA partners has turned so bitter that the BJP leaders are determined to defeat the JD(U) candidates in the election to Jharkhand assembly scheduled on November 30, 2019.

Politics is a weird game. Yesterday, it appeared that BJP-Shiv Sena alliance had been saved from breaking, but overnight the situation took a surprising turn. Tension between BJP and Sena, which had shown sign of abating on Wednesday flared up within 24 hours. Insisting on an “equal power sharing” formula with the BJP for government formation in Maharashtra, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray upped the ante by declaring that he was in touch with the Congress and NCP as well, appearing to signal that he was prepared to explore other options.

New Delhi: Living up to his top billing Maisnam Meiraba Luwang brush aside 15th seed Lee Hak Joo of Korea 21-10, 21-13 to clinch the boys’ singles U-19 title at the Woncheon Yonex Korea Junior Open International Challenge in Miryang, Korea on Saturday.

Thane: Manush Shah of Gujarat won his second title this season when he made short work of Maharashtra’s Shubham Ambre in the Youth Boys final of the UTT National Ranking (West Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the Sulochana Devi Singhania School here today.

Thane: Manav Thakkar stamped his authority yet again this season to claim the second successive men singles trophy when he beat Sanil Shetty 4-1 in the final of the UTT National Ranking (West Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the Sulochana Devi Singhania School here today.

“Truth is a luxury that can be afforded only by those not involved in its consequences.” This sentence is not quotation from a book by Indian or a writer from any developing nation. It is from the novel “Children Under Sun” by Morris West, Australian ambassador to Italy. Yet most media persons from Europe or other developed nations have been writing of prevalent corruption and dishonesty in new nations. They dare not explore truth that poverty and dishonesty of most new emerging nations is consequent to their exploitation by the European empires for Centuries. Even Americans had to fight, 250 years ago, their war of independence from exploitation by the European Empire.