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Belying the indictment of the BJP leaders that opposition unity was a mirage and a convergence of the corrupt leaders, the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties has delivered a new ideologically sound and adorable body, the INDIA, or the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance.

There are 64 squares on the chessboard and 26 INDIA parties will square up against 38 NDA parties in the 2024 general elections. But how many realized that 38+26 added up to ‘64’? Everybody was talking of how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA paled in front of the singularly “inclusive” INDIA and most everybody ended the evening having set up the NDA for the kill. The ‘INDIA’ partnership with 26 political parties shoulder to shoulder was declared the clear winner. But while Delhi and Bengaluru saw partnerships form and gel, there was also the undeclared grouping of those political parties which did not figure in either ‘INDIA’ or NDA.

Be it Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha elections, political parties participate in them to add to their number and traction within the two Houses and beyond it. The choices of nominees of BJP and Trinamool Congress in the recent Rajya Sabha elections indicate that both the outfits of divergent ideologies have in their sights prospective vote banks for 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

India is among the low Women’s Empowerment and Gender Gap group of countries with their respective values 0.520 and 0.560 respectively in 2022. It is also in the medium value group countries in Human Development in 2021.

The ruling establishment in India led by PM Narendra Modi has been sabotaging workers’ unions ever since the BJP came to power in 2014 is a well-known fact and is well documented and censured by even Credentials Committee reports submitted in the International Labour Conferences of the ILO, the latest being held during June 5-16, 2023, but the government remains unperturbed and does the same shamelessly, year after year.

New Delhi: Playing fast and attacking game, hosts Germany outplayed India 4-1 in the first of the two Women's hockey matches at Wiesbaden on Tuesday. Nike Lorenz (6', 59') and Jette Fleschütz (14', 43') scored a brace each for the winners, Vaishnavi Vittal Phalke (29) was 'the lone goal-scorer for the visitors.

New Delhi: World no 3 pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty recorded an easy win over their rivals to move into the second round of doubles at the Korea Open 2023 badminton tournament on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends 80 MPs in Lok Sabha, the largest number across the states, has lately been witnessing much increased political activities. Double anti-incumbency seems to be working against the double-engine government under PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and CM Yogi Aditya Nath in the state. Both the ruling establishment and the opposition are aware of this and hence their activities are revolving around it. BJP is vigilant about the potential harm, and hence stepped up strengthening the NDA, while the opposition seems to suffer from irrational hopes and fears over their alliance that keep them still divided.

Maharashtra politics is strange and is getting weirder by the day. Ask anybody in the streets of Mumbai. Pune or Nagpur. Opinion will not change even in Sambhaji Nagar. Ask political analysts and they'll say Maharashtra’s politicians are to blame. Take, for instance, the powerful Pawars, Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar, uncle and the nephew, who are two of a kind, both of them disruptive politicians; cunning and clever with a poker player’s yen for gambling with every move.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has slipped to world No. 17, her worst in ten years, in the latest women’s singles BWF rankings, released on Tuesday.