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New Delhi: Former World Champion PV Sindhu and world no 8 HS Prannoy chalked out straight-game victories over their respective rivals to move into the second round of the Indonesia Open badminton at the Istora Senayan sports arena, in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Unity on not allowing the thorny “who will be PM face” to play spoilsport with the Patna Conclave has made it relatively easy for cobbling unity among opposition parties. Ambitious opposition leaders are happy they didn’t have to stake claim for the “PM face”. Octogenarian NCP supremo Sharad Pawar took the decision out of their hands when he announced peremptorily that the “PM face” issue would stay on the backburner till after the Bharatiya Janata Party is defeated and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ousted.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi was many things to many people. He was 'Thalaivar" to his cadres, a wily politician to his opponents and a visionary to his admirers. His autobiography 'Nenjukku Neethi ' shows his life and struggle.

Fissures have appeared in Congress-Left Front alliance less than a month before panchayat elections are scheduled in West Bengal. CPI(M) has unilaterally declared candidates in Murshidabad, of all places, an area known to be the stronghold of state Congress chief, Adhir Ranjan Choudhury.

A decade of dominance of majoritarian Hindutva politics in India with critically fragmented secular democratic politics has lately been emanating signs of change. The majority of political parties in opposition having differing regional and national aspirations and contradictions have finally agreed to participate in Opposition Meet on June 23 called by JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after a series of bilateral and multilateral meeting with leaders of opposition parties across the country. Differences and contradictions are obviously no more deterrent for opposition meet for unity against the majoritarian Hindutva politics.

New Delhi: The long overdue Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections will be held on July 4.

Declaration of the schedule of 2023 panchayat election has come during the Jan Jowar Yatra of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee which apparently gives TMC a leg up in West Bengal rural polls scheduled to be held on 8 July. The polling date can be rescheduled to July 14 if Calcutta High Court insists. The HC is presently hearing the case.

Notwithstanding the hype being built around Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s forthcoming official state visit to the United States, it would be wrong to expect any major economic benefit to India as a result of the trip. On top of the agenda are the strategic issues which concern both the US and India. Narendra Modi’s first state visit to the US during his nine-year long reign as India’s prime minister appears to be more in acknowledgement of his strong strategic cooperation and collaboration with the US to contain the expansionist communist regime of China, the world’s second largest economy and a formidably growing global military power, than anything else. China is a common enemy of both the US and India.

Political wind is blowing in favour of Congress in Rajasthan, despite rebellious Sachin Pilot. Central Congress Leadership has been successful so far in bringing a truce between Sachin and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Though the truce seems to be temporary and an uneasy one, Gehlot is heading to shatter the BJP dream in the state in both coming assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal returned to Ramlila Ground after 12 years and this time to sound the bugle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has unleashed “Hitlerism” on India. The one-time anti-corruption mascot, who has never signed a Delhi government document, is livid that he has been deprived the right to put his initials to Delhi government documents by a Modi government ordinance.