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Gurugram: A star-studded field with record number of entries with the highest ever prize fund for a domestic event will be the feature of the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour getting underway at the DLF Golf and Country Club here from Tuesday.

New Delhi: Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and the Asian Championships bronze medallist Sakshi Choudhary came up with stellar performances as they thrashed their rivals by identical 5-0 verdicts to move into the quarter finals of the 75 and 52kg categories respectively at the Rs 20 crore Mahindra IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here on Monday.

There are lot of discussions in the media about the recent meeting of the Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in which both of them said that they would explore the possibility of bringing together the political parties opposed to both the Congress and the BJP. Both the leaders opined against giving the leadership of the opposition to the Congress. Some commentators are saying as if this position of the two leading opposition parties will lead to big cracks in opposition unity efforts facilitating the process of bringing the BJP to power for the third time after 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

A Sanskrit adage “vinas kale viprit buddhi” has once again made its incredible appearance in the political circles. It was in 1975 Jayprakash Narayan had used it for Indira Gandhi when she instead of taking recourse to debate and discussion and find out the solution to the vexed political situation the country was facing at that time, imposed Emergency and pushed the opposition leaders in jail.

LUCKNOW: Congress Party is facing its biggest dilemma in Uttar Pradesh on whether to revive organisation and boost morale of party leaders and workers to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls solo or leave the space for Samajwadi Party and its alliance.

Despite the Constitution (Seventy-Third Amendment Act. 1992, which came into force w.e.f April 24, 1993, inserted Part IX in the Constitution of India and accorded Panchayats a Constitutional status as institutions of local self-governance for rural India, the Centre and States continue to interfere in the way of realizing this dream envisioned in the Constitution of India through non-devolution of powers, providing insufficient funds, playing politics through centrally or state sponsored schemes, and the worst allocating huge amounts in the budgets but remains unutilized.

All retired judges currently alive and kicking should ask Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju to name the ”few retired judges” who are part of the “anti-India gang” that is undermining the Indian judiciary by asking it to play the role of the Opposition. The Law Minister must come clean and not bury his head in the sand like so many ostrich. If India is threatened by an “anti-India gang” aided and abetted by retired judges, it cannot be kept under wraps.

Notwithstanding Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s repeated statements during his recent tour in the UK saying that Indian democracy is under threat, the growing trend of elected political authoritarianism poses a big challenge to the system. The trend is also being witnessed in many other democracies outside the developed world. India would have performed much better but for its corrupt and family-controlled political parties finding comfort in democratic authoritarianism. Political parties in power for long tend to become highly authoritarian and corrupt. Their leaders are aided by undereducated and low quality legislators.

Bhopal: Six Olympic medallists, as well as six reigning world champions, will headline a field of 198 shooters from 30 countries at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol stage, to be held here from 20 to 27 March.

New Delhi: Putting up yet another dominating display Nikhat Zareen and Manisha Moun recorded facile wins to move into to the pre quarters of the of the Mahindra IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here on Sunday.