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As a boy he must have flown a paper plane, the kind made with yesterday’s ‘homework’ written on it! But the grown up Sachin Pilot it seems once he’s taken off, he has no clue where to land after the ‘tower’ tells him to flap his wings and weather the ‘whether’, this way or that way, remain in the Congress hanger or crash-land in saffron turbulence. Poor Sachin Pilot, he’s being called a clean shaven, clean-cut ‘English-speaking pretty boy’ who shouldn’t be too ambitious for his own good!

Congress is systematically getting down to the trap of old guards versus young turks laid by Rahul Gandhi. In the seventies, when Indira Gandhi ruled the roost, the young turks dictated the course of the Congress politics. They were so dominant that Chandra Shekhar contested for the CWC berth much against the wishes of Indira and won overwhelmingly. Indira Gandhi remained a mute spectator. She had to accept the reality.

Notwithstanding migrant workers playing a key role in boosting the economy, bare attention was given to the state of migrant workers. They were pivot to infrastructure development and export oriented industries. With the rapid growth of urbanization, which opened employment opportunities, movement of workers from rural to urban areas perked up. But little policy directives were made for the welfare and protection of the migrant workers.

What is the fourth force of the Defence of our Country? To defend the sovereignty and security of our Country we have the Army, Navy and Air Force, but then what is the fourth force. All of us know that war is fought in the battle field, but won through the Weapons, Ammunitions, keeping the troops comfortable to fight the battle in all odd situations with protective Uniforms and Clothing etc. The fourth force of Defence which the former Prime Minister late Rajeev Gandhi christened is the 41 Ordnance Factories which are the backbone of our Armed Forces. What does these Ordnance Factories does. Ordnance Factories have marched with time.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s ban on agitations during covid times has come not a day too soon.

The gold smuggling case in Kerala is being used by the Congress-led UDF and the BJP to tarnish the image of the LDF government and a joint effort to destabilise the government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

India has witnessed the most degrading, serious and long lasting assault on the Republic in taming of the judiciary during the last six years since 2014. There has been a concerted attempt by the NDA Union Government to erode the independence of the judiciary, some of which has succeeded. Even after the attempt to bring back the executive in to the role of selecting judges of the higher judiciary (High Courts and the Supreme Court of India) through the Judicial Appointments Commission having been scuttled by the SCI, it has been seen the current Union Government has been rejecting willfully appointments from minorities who have borne the brunt of assault by the government.

India has witnessed the most degrading, serious and long lasting assault on the Republic in taming of the judiciary during the last six years since 2014. There has been a concerted attempt by the NDA Union Government to erode the independence of the judiciary, some of which has succeeded. Even after the attempt to bring back the executive in to the role of selecting judges of the higher judiciary (High Courts and the Supreme Court of India) (SCI) through the Judicial Appointments Commission having been scuttled by the SCI, it has been seen the current Union Government has been rejecting willfully appointments from minorities who have borne the brunt of assault by the government.

The loud rumblings of the gathering political storm in Uttar Pradesh are loudly audible to sensitive years. The liberals may rumble loud protests over the suspected disposal of the criminal Vikas Dubey in the police custody to avoid embarrassment to political big wigs in the state. The storm is gathering over his confessions and his naming politicians, bureaucrats and high ranking police officials to abet his consolidation of his empire of crime in the state. His confessions in reply to questions by officers were recorded in video during the journey from Ujjain to Kanpur in the police vehicle. The video copy on CD is gone viral in the state to cause sensation as he named 11 ministers in the present Council of Ministers, four officials and some senior police officers. Contents of his confessions found enough space in the prominent Hindi daily of Kanpur.

COVID-19 has placed India’s already ailing MSME sector in a precarious condition. Majority of 6.33 crores of micro, small, and medium enterprises are facing the question of survival. World Bank’s MSME Emergency Response programme of $750 million, says that it will be addressing the immediate liquidity and credit needs of some 1.5 million viable MSMEs to help them withstand the impact of the current shock and protect millions of jobs. The Government of India had announced a special package of Rs 3 lakh crore for the same purpose. However, these are too little to overcome the crisis in the sector that has been suffering since demonetization in November 2016. Even before the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown on March 24, millions of MSMEs have already been shut down, and million others were struggling for survival.