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New Delhi: Teenager Aditi Gopichand Swamy with a score of 711 points out of 720 broke the Under 18 world record in the women’s compound qualification round at the Archery World Cup 2023 stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia.

So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this a sign of a “raging feud” between Shinde and Fadnavis? Could it be that Shinde is all set for revolt, a ‘gharwapsi’ of sorts though Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut nipped that likelihood in the bud saying the Shinde Sena was now the “Modi-Shah Shiv Sena.”

In the first eight years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India witnessed more than double the number of bank frauds. The first half of the ninth year, number of frauds rose even more sharply compared to the corresponding months of the eighth year. Now in the tenth year, when Lok Sabha elections are only 10 months away, the fraudsters are being allowed compromise settlement and even fresh loans in the ‘interest of public’ rather than much desired actions against the swindlers of bank moneys and conniving bank officials.

The heavy impact of the disclosures made by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about alleged armtwisting by the Modi government to force the microblogging giant to block criticism of the government in connection with the farmers agitation has overshadowed the disastrous data leak relating to Covid vaccination. The latest controversy has taken the spotlight away from the CoWin breach, which nevertheless would have continued implications for the people of India.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Habits die hard. The Congress party in Kerala does not seem to have learnt any lessons from the spectacular victory its counterpart in neighbouring Karnataka scored in the recently-held Assembly elections in that State.

At a time when Trinamool Congress finds itself between a rock and a hard place in fielding panchayat election candidates in a vast swathe of Junglemahal in West Bengal inhabited by Kudmis, the Left Front has put up candidates from this community in Purulia district for the coming rural polls. In all, 18 front nominees have been fielded out of 45 Zilla Parishad seats in this red earth district.

BHOPAL: June 12 proved to be a day of two major calamities for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan. One calamity was the huge fire which caused havoc in many floors of Satpura Bhawan. Satpura Bhawan is a multi story building which houses offices of several key state government departments. The fire was so massive that it destroyed about 40,000 files. Some of them related to serious corruption cases which are being enquired by Lokayukta and economic offenses wing of Police.

The news item published in the media on 12th June 2023 that an NGO affiliated with the RSS women’s wing, the ‘Rashtriya Sevika Samiti’ has launched a documentary and guidance titled “Garbha Sanskar” to help the women bear customized “Cultured and Patriotic Children” is highly alarming. This is total negation of science and a move to push the society into utter backwardness and obscurantism. Shri Tamilisai Soundararajan the Governor of Telangana participated in the meeting of Rashtriya Sevika Samiti on 11th June 2023 giving it at official colour.

Ayo Gorkhali (The Gorkhas are upon you), is quite a menacing war cry on the battlefield. The Gorkhas have impressed one and all with their courage and fighting spirit. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw paid them the ultimate compliment: “If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gorkha.”

New Delhi: Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu and Commonwealth Games silver medal winner Bindyarani Devi will train in the USA after the Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) of the Sports Ministry on Tuesday approved the weightlifters' proposal to train abroad.