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New Delhi: Women's compound team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur and Aditi Gopichand Swami did country proud as they won the gold medal at the World Archery Championships in Berlin, Germany, on Friday. It was India’s first -ever gold at the archery world championships in any category.

New Delhi: Bad form continue to haunt PV Sindhu as she was knocked out of the Australian Open Badminton while HS Prannoy stunned top seed Anthony Sinisuka Ginting to set up an all-India semifinals in Sydney on Friday.

For andha bhakts (blind disciples) of Narendra Modi, Supreme Court staying the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case over his Modi surname remark and restoring his status as an MP must have come as a rude shock to the RSS and the BJP political ecosystem. True enough, in real sense it is a sort of censure on the functioning of the lower judiciary and to some extent questioning the legislative effectiveness.

Morgan Stanley, a widely respected global investment bank, has upgraded India’s rating. This essentially means the bank now is now arguing it is worthwhile investing in India on the basis of the macro-economic data on the performance of the Indian economy.

More than seven decades back, Dr Ambedkar had warned that “on the 26th of January, 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.”

The Supreme Court has stayed Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the Modi defamation case and restored his Lok Sabha membership. The apex court also questioned the wisdom of the trial judge and the higher court in awarding the maximum punishment in the alleged offence, which made the Congress leader lose his MP status. The Supreme Court, however, cautioned Rahul Gandhi to be more careful in making such remarks, which further shows how the lower courts erred in meting out a punishment that was disproportionately harsher than what was warranted.

Many economists have been advocating a universal basic income for India, an idea that was mooted even in the official Economic Survey for 2016-17. Of course the practical proposals towards this end have varied, some suggesting a common universal transfer to all persons below a certain income, and others suggesting a graded transfer depending on how badly off an individual happens to be. But the vision is of a society where every citizen has a certain basic minimum level of money income through appropriate government transfers which would give the person command over a bundle of goods that assure a minimum living standard.

Communal Violence between religious groups has almost nothing to do with religion, but to politics. This is true even with incidents of communal violence between the Majority Hindu community and the minority communities especially Muslims and Christians in India. As we are approaching closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, the politics of communal violence spreads and intensifies across the states where majority of the parliamentary constituencies are located.

In the aftermath of Wagner rebellion Sino-Russian relations is not what it used to be earlier. It was a "bromance" between two most powerful authoritarians, President Xi Jingping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the uprising was the most significant to the latter's authority in the past two decades.

Monu Manesar and MLA Mamman Khan. Cow vigilante and cow smuggler. Temple and Mosque. Guns, rifles, stones, arson and beatings... 'Sar Tan Se Juda' and assorted other violence – that is the Nuh region of Mewat in Haryana, bordering the National Capital Region of Delhi with Millennial City Gurugram as its jewel in the crown! This is where the BJP and the Bajrang Dal are making a pitch ahead of general elections 2024 and the assembly elections thereafter.