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Ram Vilas Paswan's death just days before Bihar votes will inevitably cast a shadow on the polls, but one thing is absolutely certain that it will not have major impact on the electorate scenario and the political equations. He has been a dalit icon and commands respect of the Dalits, especially of the Paswan (Dusadh) caste, but how far in the changed political situation he would succeed in influencing the Dalits is quite intriguing.

Foreign hands was a bogey used by Indira Gandhi to denounce anything that was not to her liking. She saw a foreign hand in everything, from changing weather to large populations of India remaining poor, poverty having been a most favourite theme that she used to cling on to power. It is an irony of fate that it was finally the hand that brought her back to power after remaining briefly in political wilderness in the aftermath of Emergency.

Uttar Pradesh is India's badlands, both in terms of crime and police atrocities. But even by its abysmal standards, the state has plumbed new depths with the Hathras rape case and its aftermath.

New Delhi: Ace archers Atanu Das, Deepika Kumari and coach Majhi Sawaiyan along with other probables have expressed optimism resumption of training cum coach camp at the Pune’s Army Sports Institute (ASI) will help the archers regain their momentum after a very long lay off.

New Delhi: Defender and drag-flicker Mandeep Mor feels that installing hockey-pitches in small towns will go a long way to boost and popularizing the sport at the grass root level.

New Delhi: After a hiatus of seven months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) will resume its activities in the first week of next month.

BHOPAL: With the declaration of lists of candidates by both the Congress and BJP, battle lines have been drawn in 28 Vidhan Sabha constituencies which will go to poll on November 3, 2020.

Emerging economies pose threat to stratosphere due to an unprecedented increase in nitrous oxide (N₂O) and leading among them are Brazil, India and China. Global anthropogenic (N₂O) emission is due to agricultural production: 82 per cent. This is revealed in a paper, ‘Nature’: ‘A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks’. It encapsulates in brief an extensive recorded data .spanning four decades, all over the world and findings thereof. It is an international collaboration project, essentially funded and monitored by Japan, in the project, Global Nitrous Oxide Budget 2020involves an international research team of 70 scientists and44 research organizations from around the world. These include two scientists from the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) and Japan Agency of Marine Earth-Science and Technology (Jamstec) of Japan.

In June, the State of California sued CISCO Systems on the grounds of caste-based discrimination. The lawsuit outlined harassment faced by an Indian American employee on the basis of his caste.

The unprecedented situation due to the Corona pandemic and the lockdown has not only aggravated the grim situation of women but also exposed the anti-people, anti-women policies and patriarchal ideology of the BJP-led central government. The year 2020 started in Maharashtra on a positive note. The AIDWA 12th national conference concluded with enthusiasm in Mumbai on the eve of the new year. Thereafter, in January and February, AIDWA women in many districts like Mumbai, Thane, Sangli, Solapur and Pune came out in support of the Shaheen Bagh like protests in those districts. And then the Covid lockdown began in March. AIDWA activists in many districts came out to help the migrant workers and the poor with food and other essentials. Let us take a quick look at the Adivasi women of Thane-Palghar, which is the largest district in the state in both movement and membership so far as AIDWA work is concerned.