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It may not have been as high-profile as the ‘call of national duty’ press conference by the four senior most judges of the Supreme Court about six years ago. But the renewed controversy about the master of the roster, prompting two senior advocates of the apex court to write to Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud encompasses as profound issues as those raised in the previous instance.

Delay in picking Chief Ministers for Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan is telling on the mental agility of claimants for the post in all three states. Look at outgoing Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan who can’t stand in one spot for more than an hour at a piece. He is all over the state in one-piece 'desi' suits without a stop, breathless and putting his health at risk, willing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take notice and oblige. Then, there is former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia, another Chief Ministerial-aspirant on pins and needles, dying to catch the Prime Minister's eye.

Trinamool Congress has found itself in a political whirlpool ever since the cash for teaching jobs case unfolded in West Bengal leading to several senior Trinamool Congress ministers and leaders marking time behind the bars and CBI and ED grilling some others. As the cup of woes of the ruling dispensation of West Bengal was spilling over, its de facto number two Abhishek Banerjee rocked the boat voicing the need for a cut off age for some veterans to call it quits.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The left movement in the country in general and in Kerala in particular suffered a grievous loss in the passing away of Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary Kanam Rajendran.

Finally, somebody has politically owned him—Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the 7th Prime Minister of India. Though he changed the course of Indian politics, and unleashed forces leading irreversibly to the rise and rise of OBCs, a process that is likely to influence the 2024 elections, the Mandal messiah, as “VP” was popularly called, has been amongst the most forgotten of all PMs—till now.

In October this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a significant meeting to evaluate the advancement of India’s Gaganyaan Mission and to define the future of the nation’s space exploration efforts. Expanding on the achievements of such previous space missions as Chandrayan-3 and Aditya L-1, the Prime Minister has set ambitious targets for India, which include establishing an Indian Space Station, called the Bharatiya Antariksha Station, by 2035 and sending the first Indian astronaut to the Moon by 2040.

New Delhi: India came from behind to defeat Korea 3-1 in the 9th - 12th place qualification match of the FIH Hockey Women’s Junior World Cup in Santiago, Chile, on Friday.

New Delhi: Ace goalkeeper Savita will lead the 22-member Indian Women's Hockey Team for the 5- Nations Tournament Valencia, scheduled to be held from 15th to 22nd December in Valencia, Spain.

New Delhi: Favorite Lucknow Aviators, last year’s runners-up Paramount Proec Tigers, Ichiban Samurai and Indraprastha Warriors registered wins on the opening day of the fifth season of the Harven Pro Tennis League (PTL) at the RK Khanna Stadium in New Delhi.

Robust growth in 2nd quarter GDP of 2023-24 (July-September) vindicates that India is resilient to global sanction, protecting its strong economic fundamentals. India pinned continuous growth in GDP in all quarters since January 2023, despite global sanction was imposed on Russia in December 2022 and India had to deal with Russia as a major trading nation.