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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid glowing tribute to hockey great Major Dhyan Chand on the occasion of his 115th birth anniversary saying his magic with the hockey stick can never be forgotten.

New Delhi: It rained honours and money as the in the first the National sports award ceremony was held Virtually due to the Covid-19 Pandemic with athletes logging in from across 11 SAI centres across the country to be honoured by President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday.

The political ability is a quality, a trait, that nature gifts to a select few. It is not property or quantity that can be inherited. The old guard in the Congress opted for Indira Gandhi under the belief that she did not have political ability. In thirty months, her political moves reduced them to irrelevance. Sonia Gandhi was not installed as the Congress president in 1998 because she was gifted with political talents but due to misreading Indian masses as the family worshippers. The lack of her political ability reduced the party to irrelevance in a decade of her stewardship. After 22 years, five elections to the Lok Sabha and more than a hundred assembly polls, 23 senior leaders of the party are now seeking reintroduction of internal democracy in the party organization and its functioning.

Over nine lakh women from India’s all-women workforce commonly referred to as ASHA workers (Accredited Social Health Activist) are angry and upset with their working conditions.

The number of Covid-19 cases in Tripura has been touching record high every passing day. The total number of cases stood at 9,820 on August 24 and the death toll from the disease was 78. Similarly, the number of active patients is also rising and reaching a scale where it will be difficult to provide a hospital bed to all patients. What concerns all sections of rational people is that frontline warriors like doctors, nurses, paramedics, hospital management staff, whose strength is far less than required in a tiny state like Tripura, are increasingly getting infected with the deadly virus.

The digital divide was there always in India but now it has widened further. India has entered into a new era of online education in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, but it creating a wedge between the haves and have nots. The growing digital divide is also being witnessed among rich and poor states of the country.

The Pandemics bring with them misery in the form of morbidities and mortalities. Bubonic plagues are an example. The Great Plague of 1665 was one of the worst during which 100,000 residents of London died just in a span of seven months. The Spanish flu in 1918 was even worse. During this period the pandemic is believed to have killed up to 14 -17 million people in our country, the most among all countries which is about 5-6% of total population.

By calling the COVID 19 an act of God, the finance minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman has not only tried to evade responsibility but also sent misleading information to the people and perpetuated myths already prevalent in the society. She said this in the meeting of the GST council on 27th August. Several states have demanded that the GST due to them should be given which the central government is evading.

United States President Donald Trump is using Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name in wooing the Indian Americans in the coming elections on November 3 this year. There are about 1.8 million voters of Indian origin and they are divided between the Democrats and Republicans, though the majority supports the Democratic Party. Trump has initiated a big campaign to bring some traditional Democratic supporters to his side this time making use of his relationship with the Indian PM.

There can be no question that the launch of an inland water cargo service between India and Bangladesh on September 2, has been long overdue. The good news is that the Indian vessel MV Premier is all set to sail with a cargo of 50 tonnes of cement from Daudkandi in Comila, Bangladesh to Sonamura, Tripura, along the river Gomti. Along the route the ship will use the facilities of the Bibirbazar port in Bangladesh. The ceremonial launch of anew connectivity project acquires significance in that it follows the recent visit to Dhaka by India’s Foreign Secretary, Mr. Harshvardhan Shringla, who has served in Bangladesh before.