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Ranchi: The Indian women’s hockey team’s hope of making it to the Paris Olympics depends on their finishing among top three in the Olympic Qualifiers scheduled in Ranchi from January 13 to 19.

Supreme Court’s refusal to stay implementation of Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 has shattered the dream of the people for a free and fair Lok Sabha Election 2024, though the court has agreed to hear the pleas against the newly enacted law, but in April, when the country would already be undergoing election process under an Election Commission of India of PM Narendra Modi’s choice and power.

Economics and culture could be mixed but certainly not the politics. It could be either centrist, liberal or rightist, but definitely not mixed. Ever since its birth in 1885, Congress has been a congregation of all shades of people, from rightists, centrists to leftists, but it steadfastly pursued the secular tenets.

From a fancy restaurant in Istanbul with a view of the Bosporus, a man, sanctioned by America for allegedly funding Hamas, discusses his business roles. The Bosporus is a narrow water channel in Turkey, separating Europe and Asia, linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara.

With pre Lok Sabha poll campaigning yet to begin all over India, divisive religious polarisation has already reached unforeseen levels in Assam. Initially, state Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma set the pace in his public speeches , aggressively announcing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Hindutva agenda.

We observe a strange phenomenon everyday, so strange that its strangeness goes generally unnoticed. Government spokespersons from the prime minister downwards go on repeating ad nauseam that India is the most rapidly growing major economy in the world today, that it will soon become a 5 trillion dollar economy, and that it has overtaken China in terms of the growth rate of the gross domestic product. And yet the same government spokespersons claim that the government has no money to pay for the old pension scheme for government employees, let alone for a proper universal non-contributory pension scheme for the millions who spent their working years as employees in the unorganised sector.

WASHINGTON: The Massachusetts congressional delegation was furious. The Biden administration had early on promised to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT). Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern took comfort from Congress having been told the process was underway.

The legendary Kolkata based music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan's untimely departure to the way of all flesh is not only an occasion for mourning for all those who love music and life. It cuts a link between the traditional and modern space; style was the man who had also brushed the gaps between different styles of Indian classical music.

The mega event that is made out of the construction of Ram temple by replacing Babri Masjid in Ayodhya should not lead us to forget the basic fact. And that is despite the Supreme Court’s mandate, the upcoming temple at the site of the mosque has no historical foundation, nor was it a part of Hindu consciousness till 1949. As early as in 1855, there was a feud between Bairagis living in Hanumangarhi and the Muslims. The important dimension of Hanumangarhi episode (1855) is that it indicated the absence even at that time of any linkages between Babari Masjid and Janmasthan in Hindu psyche. Although the Bairagis captured the Masjid in which Muslims had taken shelter, they did not occupy it or advance any claim to it. Instead they retreated to Hanumangarhi instantaneously. It is also important that during the course of the enquiry by the court of Awadh, no Hindu had mentioned the earlier existence of a temple at the site of the Masjid.

In 2024, the global space launch landscape is expected to see increased activity from both public and private sectors in countries like China, India, and Japan, following a year dominated by SpaceX.