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Liberating the country from the clutches of the rightist forces — the RSS and the BJP — using the electoral contest is undoubtedly the primary task of the opposition front, INDIA; but it is not enough. Rightwing fanatics have turned a huge populace of the Hindus into ideological slaves by injecting the venom of majoritarian nationalism and Hindutva into their minds. And as is evident from the recent incidents in various parts of North India, police personnel across the country have been the primary target of this ideological perversion, turning them into unthinking foot soldiers of an imminent, or as some would say, already birthed, Hindu Rashtra.

The Supreme Court is smart. On August 1, after nearly three months of Manipur burning, after killings running rampant, after untold atrocities committed on Manipuri women, the top court took the Manipur Police to task and called out the Centre and the state government for the “absolute breakdown of law & order in Manipur” wondering aloud why the Modi government stood mute spectator?

India has just achieved a successful test of its RudraM-II anti-radiation missiles. These missiles can be fired from both the Sukhoi Su-30MKI and Mirage-2000 fighter jets, enabling India to target and disable enemy radars and communication systems effectively.

New Delhi: World no 17 pair of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly progressed to the second-round while Ashwini Ponnappa Tanisha Crasto crashed out of the Australian Open women’s doubles competition at the State Sports Centre in Sydney, on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was honoured with the Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune. The big news was NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was there at the award ceremony while Congress and Pawar’s NCP leaders waved black flags. The thing is, Modi will go anywhere for an award. The Prime Minister’s cupboard must be choc-a-bloc with awards. Only the Nobel Peace Prize is missing.

The Speaker has admitted the notice given by the new Opposition coalition (INDIA) last week against the Narendra Modi government. It will be the second he has faced since 2014.

The ‘Persona’ in ancient Greece was the mask worn by the artists while performing drama on stage. The real persons always remained behind those masks from which came the word personality, which meant the character they played. In the light of this one can see the personality of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wore a mask of ‘pain’ and ‘shame’ in the Lok Sabha while giving a statement on the video of two women being paraded naked in Manipur went viral online. He had kept his mouth shut during the last three months of communal violence in the state, as he had done during Gujarat communal violence in 2002.

KOLKATA: Having flexed all its organisational muscles in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP secured 18 MPs from West Bengal; with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister, Amit Shah making almost daily trips to the state before 2021 Assembly elections, the saffron camp had 77 victorious legislators. Falling far short of the number of legislators to send Trinamool Congress state government packing, it is back to invocation of Hindutva, gods and godesses to fuel its Lok Sabha campaign next year with Shah asking state BJP leadership to secure 36 parliamentary seats from this bastion of Trinamool Congress.

KOLKATA: There is grave concern among Nepalese officials as well as trade/business circles over the delayed movement of goods transported from India in recent weeks, mainly because of the major train accident at Bahanaga station in Odisha on June 2 this year.

As the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 is coming near, we are once again reminded of dreadful effects of the incident that wiped out two cities, killed over 2 lakh people and left the mankind to suffer from the effects of radiations for several decades to come. How the bodies melted in a fraction of second is beyond imagination. Those who survived envied the dead. They suffered both physical and mental trauma. It was horrifying to watch the images of effects of the atomic bombing during our visit to the Peace Museum in Hiroshima.