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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.

New Delhi: Men's team Captain Sunil Chhetri on Tuesday exhorted the Indian Women’s Team to “leave no stone unturned,” and start preparing for the AFC Women’s Asian Cup India 2022 from now itself.

DUBAI: Last week witnessed a feeding frenzy from the crème de la crème of Wall Street’s smart money (and some Dubai’s smart money LOL!) to be part of the private market financing of Reliance Jio, the emerging supernova of India’s digital ecosystem.

When Anita Ghai, a prominent disability rights advocate, said that the heterogeneity of disability is often ignored in terms of governance and policymaking, she had a point.

While evolving the strategy to fight the corona pandemic, the policymakers found the phrase “social distancing” as the most convenient tool to fight the menace. But unfortunately they could not comprehend that it has a dangerous dimension and it would expose society’s fragility.

The Congress party is facing an unprecedented power struggle from within, which has cost the Grand Old Party dear. The Congress is almost imploding. It had lost a big state like Madhya Pradesh just a few weeks ago and is in the process of losing another big state Rajasthan. Even if the Ashok Gehlot government survives the present crisis, which it may, the Damocles sword is hanging over it in view of the fragile majority in the house.

Notice by the Broadcasting Corporation of India (Prasar Bharati) that owns All India Radio and Door Darshan to the Press Trust of India (PTI), the national news agency of repute widely known for its colourless factual reporting of news that enjoys high public credibility, threatening it that the public broadcasters will stop subscription of the news agency for its “anti-national” reporting of an interview by Chinese Ambassador to India in June 2020 followed by another notice a fortnight thereafter on July 7, 2020 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development charging the PTI for misuse of lease agreement of the government land housing its headquarters on Delhi’s Parliament Street with a penalty of 84.48 crore and payment of the same within a month shows that the NDA Union Government is out to finish the news agency and prop up some other captive news agency. It also forms part of the subversion of media under the current fascist Sangh regime.

New Delhi: As expected the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the postponement of the Men’s T20 World Cup scheduled to be played in Australia later this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was slated to take place between 18 October and 15 November.