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When Rome was burning Nero was playing flute is an old infamous saying that incidentally comes to one’s mind when he or she recalls what happened in Delhi on February 23, 24 and 25, 2020. The shocking incidents of riots, arson, looting and shooting were taking place at a critical time when India is passing through an unprecedented difficult phase from all angles — be it in the field of economy, social, cultural and political arena. The state capital is the latest victim of the vicious design of the rulers. The party that is leading the government having failed to deliver on all its promises is continuing with its divisionary-divisive slogans for the last more than five years now. The politics of hatred, character assassination, mob frenzy and violence is the hallmark of all those who are sheltered by those in power.

Reports that in many cases the victims of violence in Delhi were not allowed to reach hospitals are very disturbing. Even worse, the ambulances were stopped and searched by the police, and patients’ dressings removed while on way to healthcare facilities. This is against all the norms and forms of justice to the sick and patients' rights. A doctor was not able to shift the patent to higher center because under the circumstances when mob violence was in full swing it was not possible to transport without police support. When he tried to contact the police officials repeatedly, none of them picked his phone. The police officials contacted the doctor only after the intervention by the high court at midnight. That led to delay in shifting the serious patients.

Yes Bank has overnight become a No Bank. The pun is not lost on anyone, including Rahul Gandhi. Media houses have been using it left, right and centre. So much so that it has already become a distasteful cliché, one created possibly in the shortest period of time.

Is the Indian National Congress facing existential crisis? The answer to that is,tragically, yes. A dramatic turnabout is needed because the Congress is only bulwark against authoritarian juggernaut that is the current BJP-led regime, which is dismantling institutions, polarizing society, marginalizing disadvantaged sections and destroying the core foundations of the Indian democracy itself. The recent Delhi riots are the latest manifestation of BJP’s insidious political agenda and the pernicious consequences are for all to see.

New Delhi: London Olympic bronze medallist Mary Kom (51kg) and World Championships silver medallist Amit Panghal (52kg) will begin their quest for a Tokyo Olympic berth when they enter the ring at the at the Asian/Oceanian Olympic Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan tomorrow.

Greater Noida: Keeping her cool and nerves ,Vani Kapoor survived a triple bogey on fifth and carded a third round of three-over 75 to finish at one-over 217 to win the fifth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour here today and in the process ended a two-year long title drought.

Goa: Goa face Chennaiyin in the second leg of the Hero Indian Super League Semi-Finals, looking to overturn the 4-1 deficit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Goa on Saturday.

New Delhi: Putting up a fiery performance Vikas Krishan (69kg) dismatled Kyrgyzstan’s Nursultan Mamataly 5-0 to enter the quarter finals at the Asian/Oceanian Olympic Qualifiers in Amman, Jordan today.

The euphoria of Indians getting fair share in the Boris cabinet appears to have short lived, with one of the prominent faces Priti Patel getting a rough treatment from the opposition as well as the media for her abrasive mannerism.

The apparently stunning Super Tuesday with buoyancy in favour of Joe Biden notwithstanding, the sea-saw battle for the nomination of Democratic Party for the US presidential contest in November seems whirling in a nebula. Founding editor of Brussels-based Politico John Hariss strikes an ethical chord when he points at Bernie Sanders’ “consistency and passion” in viewing politics as “a clash of interests which casts ‘the people’ as more of an abstraction, rather than connecting with or projecting empathy toward individual people with their flesh-and-blood problems”, a ‘dynamic’ that may be crucial during the balance of March.