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The Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic review on India that was presented in the 52nd session of Human Rights Council (February 27 – March 31, 2023) presents a very saddening ground reality that exists despite the government’s commitment towards eliminating torture. It is despite the fact that the ruling establishment has always been projecting itself as fulfilling its “national duty”.

Rising new COVID-19 cases again chiefly due to a new variant XBB.1.16 have put India on alert. The seriousness of the threat has been noted even at the Prime Minister level who chaired a review meeting on March 23, the day on which a single-day rise of 1300 new cases were recorded, which was highest in the last 140 days.

India has entered one of its darkest phases of deprivation when the annual income of the poorest 20 percent has fallen by 53 percent and still continues to fall from the level of 2015-16. Since last three decades, economy was evolving at the rate of seven percent a year and was going up constantly till the advent of the pandemic years. Per capita income before the Pandemic days had arrived at 2100 dollars a year. It was in the same years that the richest twenty percent were reaping an income growth of 39 percent. It was the result of the Covid days that had impacted the economy splitting the population in a perfect contrast of Haves and Have Nots.

They hate his guts, and that was reason enough to plaster the walls in Delhi with posters demanding ‘Modi Hatao/Desh Bachao’. Tens of thousands of these posters carrying the message appeared overnight in the city where Prime Minister Narendra Modi lives, and rules from.

Gurugram: Tvesa Malik fired 4-under 68 to take the lead in the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the DLF Golf & Country Club here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Reigning champion Nikhat Zareen survived a scare before emerging winner while Olympic medalist Lovlina, Nitu Ghanghas, and Saweety Boora registered thumping victories to confirm four medals for India at the Rs 20 crore Mahindra IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships by advancing to the semi-finals at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here on Wednesday.

Expert opinion in Assam remains somewhat divided regarding a recent declining trend in the state’s annual tea production. While the state government and researchers have warned of further drop in production in the short term, eminent planters and industry circles feel such fears are exaggerated.

“You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime.” That was Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police, boasting during one of his more expansive moods. After Rahul Gandhi returned from London, it seems like there’s an Indian Lavrentiy, who has found a crime to fit Rahul Gandhi. The Congress MP has a target on his back with “Mir Jaffer” painted in bold letters.

Putting democracy on hold in the National Capital Territory of Delhi by Modi government is not new. We have been witnessing it for the last nine years since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in 2014, but his party has been kept out of the Delhi Vidhan Sabha and Municipal Corporation of Delhi by the AAP winning elections. Putting on hold the Delhi Budget is the latest example.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The statements by two influential bishops of the Catholic Church on rubber prices and support to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have taken the political parties in the State by surprise. If the offer is backed by various Christian bodies, it could signal a paradigm shift in Kerala politics.