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“A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.” – Henrik Ibsen

Since the last week of May, Tripura has been witnessing continuous rise in Covid-19 cases and the number has already crossed the figure of 5700. State has the second highest number of cases in the northeastern region after Assam.

It is twelve months since the abrogation of Article 370, and Kashmir situation is still ‘unsustainable’, as it was a year before. In the first six months of the year, from January to June, 32 civilians, 143 militants, and 54 security personnel have been killed.

No one needs to state upfront that the Indian economy is not in the pink of health. So for the central bank the task is to make the best of a bad situation. The Reserve Bank of India has attempted doing exactly that in its monetary policy, announced on August 6.

New Delhi: Drag flick specialist VR Raghunath is of the view that the current Indian hockey team's defence line is very experienced and can withstand and challenge the World's best squads.

Seventy-five years ago, when the US dropped a bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the world entered a new and terrifying era.

On August 5, 2019, the central government annulled Jammu and Kashmir’s special status — which granted exclusive land and job rights to permanent residents of the former state. One year later, contrary to the commanding national narrative, Kashmir today has a ruined economy whereas mainstream politics, which was centered on ‘Kashmiri identity’, has been rendered irrelevant.

Keeping an eye on next assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, the opposition parties too are playing Hindu card relating to the bhoomi pujan of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya which took place on August 5.

The new Nation Education Policy 2020 cannot rescue our children from the language trap they are in, both as a medium of instruction, and a language to be learned. It is more so because the policy document does not contain anything showing policymakers’ awareness about the status of language in the multilingual minds of our children. Contrary to it, the policy harps on outdated presumption of having unilingual, and thereby unicultural mind, which is wrong for almost all societies in India. The word ‘corona’ is the latest example, which may have entered in the minds of our children making them more multilingual than ever before. The words like school, TV, mobile, radio, computer, photo, phone, shirt, pant, etc are other examples.

The Bhoomi Pujan ceremony for the Ram temple at Ayodhya, though organised by the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust, became an official function with the Prime Minister laying the foundation for the temple with the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Governor in attendance.