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Lucknow: Veteran Rohan Boppanna, Sumit Nagpal and Yuki Bhambri will lead Indian challenge against Morocco in the Davis Cup World Group tie at Vijayant Khand Mini Stadium here on Saturday and Sunday.

The year-long ‘celebrations’ that the Modi government built up around the G-20 Summit have ended. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, due to electoral ambitions chose to design it more like a festival than with socio-political and diplomatic content. G-20, because of its very nature and proclaimed objectives, was expected to focus on socio-economic and political challenges before the world. Though there were marginal references on such issues intermittently, Narendra Modi’s emphasis was to create a larger-than-life image of himself aiming at 2024 elections. For this purpose, the G-20 presidency was cunningly utilised. It is generally known that G-20 presidency comes to member nations through mere rotation, but Modi and his storm-troopers tried to create an impression that it was because of Modi’s ‘Vishwaguru’ image, other member countries bestowed on him this responsibility.

The adoption of a joint declaration by the G20 summit in New Delhi with all member countries subscribing to it was an achievement, given the sharp divisions that exist on the issue of the Ukraine war. The eight paragraphs dealing with the Ukraine war were negotiated successfully due to the joint efforts of India, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa – the four countries which have held or will be holding the presidency between 2022 and 2025.

The first coordination committee of the INDIA block of 28 opposition parties has decided to finally start the process of seat sharing for both coming state assembly elections scheduled by year end as also the Lok Sabha polls by early 2024.The spokesman K C Venugopal made it clear after the CC meeting on September 13 that maximum efforts would be made to complete the state level discussions by October 30. The process is too complex, that way even if the seat sharing talks are not completed by October 30, there should be no problem, there is enough time to finalise the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

The ‘Sanatan Dharm’ controversy is the latest example of a leader of opposition unwittingly walking into RSS-BJP’s political turf made for PM Narendra Modi to play on with advantage over the opposition INDIA alliance, which they are projecting as anti-Hindu. PM Modi and his associates have been trying to drive the entire opposition leaders into their own turf, since they believe they are invincible on their own turf. INDIA alliance has already noted this and has decided to steer clear of the trap, while trying to make its own political turf for the Lok Sabha Election 2024, the result of which would much depend on whose turf the electoral battle would be fought – PM Modi’s or INDIA alliance’s.

The Indian government is capitalizing on the global push to reduce dependence on China by providing significant incentives, amounting to billions of dollars, to establish a complete semiconductor ecosystem on extensive, undeveloped land.

So, the terror in Jammu and Kashmir isn’t over as claimed by the Narendra Modi government. Just when the rest of India was starting to believe the Centre of having established “peace”, and only months after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi played a game of “snowball” with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Srinagar, comes the killings of a Rashtriya Rifles ‘CO’, an Army Major and a Deputy Superintendent of the JK Police in an encounter with Pakistani terrorists this side of the LoC. One “jawan’ was also killed and another "MIA".

‘One nation, one election’ (ONOE) is often cited as a method of reducing electoral costs. But a holistic evaluation of any democratic institution or any change in it requires its examination with respect to the impact on other democratic institutions as well as on democracy as a whole. In brief, consideration ought to be given to whether ONOE would have a favourable impact on our democratic republican polity or otherwise.

India has had a number of prime ministers over the past seven decades. They are remembered for their decisions which found expression in their government’s performance.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Wednesday congratulated Raghu Prasad RV on being appointed as Umpire for the Paris Olympic Games by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).