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The Arvind Kejriwal government granting sanction to prosecute the former JNU Student Union’s president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case is part of the well chalked out design by the BJP leadership to ruin the political and academic career of the budding youth leader.

Arvind Kejriwal’s political career has followed a meandering course. It began in the now nearly-forgotten days of Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption drive against the Congress-led UPA. Kejriwal, then a devoted chela of the Gandhi wannabe, was a self-confessed anarchist.

The alternative drugs industry is booming in India in keeping with the global trend as the pharmaceutical products such as drugs, vaccines, syrups and injectables are increasingly under global scanner for their side effects — ranging from bad to severe. While physicians rarely explain the side effects of prescribed medicines to patients. So-called prescription drugs are easily available over the counter at most medicine shops. Unfortunately, the government and industry bodies are yet to take full note of the growth of the country’s alternative drugs market, comprising Ayurvedic medicines and therapies, homeopathic drugs, Unani products among several others.

Bengaluru: Ten-man Bengaluru registered a narrow 1-0 goal win against ATK in the first leg of their Hero Indian Super League semi-final clash at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Sunday.

Imphal: Kolkata giants and former Hero I-League champions Mohun Bagan inched closer towards a second title with a convincing 3-1 victory over Manipur’s league debutants Tiddim Road Athletic Union (TRAU) at Imphal’s Khuman Lampak Stadium on Sunday.

Bhubaneswar: The Khelo India University Games (KIUG) concluded here on Sunday with a simple but impressive closing ceremony, but not before Panjab University pipped Savitribai Phule Pune University with a last-gasp effort to be crowned champions of the inauguration edition.

Bhubaneswar: Amandeep Bains had a theory. And as soon as he got the opportunity, he applied it... on his daughter. “I believe that children should be encouraged to take up what the parents are good at, to nurture them in their mould,” he said.

Bhubaneswar: Country's fastest woman Dutee Chand took to the track once again at the Khelo India University Games on Sunday and to nobody's surprise the sprinter raced away to another gold medal for the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT).

Several localities in the Southern outskirts of Delhi are of lower middle class and poor families. Few hundred thousand families have lived as neighbours without the religious differences souring their relations. Their lack of the economic ability is the cementing bondage for their relations. They all share same concerns even on the attempts to impose new criterion for conferring citizenship. The poor regardless of their religion see in it an attempt by the middle classes to deprive them of benefits of the welfare schemes to push them further down and make their survival impossible. Existence of poor, Dalit was always resented by the middle class as elements with their mouth open with insatiable demands for more. If they are denied citizenship they are no more responsibility of the party in power.

Comparisons between Nitish Kumar and Kanhaiya Kumar have already started in the political and social circles. It would certainly be an outrageous exercise, but the reasons for this are many. The massive turn out at February 27 rally of Kanhaiya has in fact played the crucial role. Before holding of this rally very view people and politician would take him as the challenger to Nitish Kumar. But the immense success of the rally, some experts even dare to compare it with the June 5 rally of JP, has changed their attitude.