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The political drama in Rajasthan, consequent to the revolt of Sachin Pilot who was the deputy chief minister and PCC president, is still unfolding. But the essential contours have become clear. The inner tussle in the Congress cannot be separated from the BJP’s drive to destabilise non-BJP state governments, in particular Congress ones.

New Delhi: Captain and ace midfielder Manpreet Singh has exuded confidence that Indian hockey team will put up a podium finishing show at the Tokyo Olympic next year.

New Delhi: It has been 40 years since India won Hockey Gold in the Olympic. Vasudevan Baskaran has the distinction of leading the side to the top of the Podium at Moscow Olympics in 1980.

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is all-subsuming. The pandemic makes it difficult to think or act on all the issues that made up our world yesterday and will stay in our world of tomorrow.

Seventy-two members of the Civil Society including senior government officials, academics, activists and lawyers have sought free and fair investigation into the riots that took place in North East Delhi from February 23 to 26 this year. In their letter sent to the President Ramnath Kovind, they demanded that the real instigators of the violence and killings should be prosecuted.

LUCKNOW: The silence of three major political parties — Samajwadi Party, BSP and the Congress —on scheduled puja on August 5 at Ayodhya for the Ram Mandir has baffled political commentators as well as media-persons. When contacted, none of the leaders from these major political parties showed any willingness to talk on this sensitive issue. They indicated that they had received no directive from the top leadership to speak on this issue as yet.

While the Bengal BJP unit has been witnessing the worst kind of factional feud, which has stooped low to the extent of trading personal accusations and charges, even allegation of womanising against some leaders, the TMC boss Mamata Banerjee has embarked on the path of weeding out the corrupt and sleazy leaders from the party.

At a time when Covid-19 is chipping away at life and liberty and the nutty coronavirus behaviour is going from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’, infecting tens of thousands across India, the political sideshow – being played out in Congress-ruled Rajasthan and partially enacted in BJP-ruled Haryana – is confounding ardent Congress supporters. ‘Aakhir Kyun?’ is the unasked question. Why are Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi allowing matters to deteriorate?

The Supreme Court has reportedly registered a suo moto contempt of court case against senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India, apparently for a tweet by the activist advocate on a picture showing Chief Justice SA Bobde riding a Harley Davidson bike without helmet or face mask. A fellow advocate has claimed that he had filed an application on behalf of someone else for initiating contempt of court proceedings against Bhushan for the tweet.

New Delhi: Veteran wrestler Geeta Phogat is keen to make a comeback and represent the country at the 2021 Olympic Games.