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How is it that the United States President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DoJ) can search Biden’s private residence and confiscate classified documents, and start an investigation? Ditto for the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who gets hauled up by a British ‘Bobby’ for not wearing seat-belt and is fined for the ‘crime’? Contrast with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He gets hit by a BBC documentary on his “role in the 2002 Gujarat riots” and Modi blocks ‘The Modi Question’ from Twitter, and YouTube.

The compulsion to protect the image and personal interest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is so domineering that his ministerial colleagues can go to the extent of retreating from their avowed ideological line and embrace their sworn enemies. The Law minister Kiren Rijiju who till a couple of days back left no occasion to decry and debase the Supreme Court, only on Sunday eulogized its illustrious status by asserting that Supreme Court was above any organisation.

The past three years under the shadow of COVID-19 has indisputably exposed the weakness of healthcare sector that resulted in great loss of lives and livelihood, but it is still waiting to be treated as priority sector by the Narendra Modi Government. India’s public health expenditure is still woefully insufficient to deal with the present and projected health related disasters caused by both communicable and incommunicable diseases, and the country is not on track to be prepared for any future health emergencies.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has signalled its intent to put up a better show in Kerala the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. But the strategy it has formulated to achieve the goal is flawed in the extreme.

With gross differences in the health needs of the G20 countries it is to be seen how India gets its and other developing countries’ concerns addressed as priority in the G20 health agenda.

Republican India on the 74th Republic Day, January 26, 2023, is witnessing how the RSS Pariwar Union Government is keeping in place an electoral façade, using lucre, ill gotten canny, manipulations of satraps, cautionary threat, outright purchase of elected legislators, false propaganda, even more false promises, the hobgoblin of “enemies” within and without endangering “national security” to grab state power and then proceed to coopt and emasculate all the official agencies whose statutory and constitutional writ it (government) is to preserve and protect the constitutional scheme and the rule of law without fear or favour.

Bhubaneswar: India’s hope of making it to the quarter finals met with sudden death as they went down 4-5 in the penalty shootout against New Zealand, after playing 3-3 in the regulation period, in the Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium here tonight.

New Delhi: Former world junior champion Kunlavut Vitidsarn of Thailand shocked fancied Indonesian Anthony Ginting to set up a title clash with top seed Viktor Axelsen in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Saturday.

New Delhi: World’s leading badminton equipment brand YONEX on Saturday announced that it will now manufacture high-quality graphite racquets in India, expanding its existing production plan and base in the country, a move which will bring the cost of full-body racquets down considerably.

Bhubaneswar: India goes into a battle for survival when they take on New Zealand in the play off for the quarterfinals of the Hockey world Cup at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday.