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Last Wednesday marked the second annual UK-US Friendship Day. Although this momentous occasion was met with near-universal indifference on both sides of the Atlantic, Rishi Sunak took the opportunity to celebrate by making his first official visit to the US as Prime Minister.

New Delhi: A group of alumnus of IITs throughout the country on Friday launched an app called FACTAPP.IN under a platform Akhil BhartiyaPratibha Utthan Abhiyan to enable the successful candidates of the IIT-JEE of mentoring, including peer-to-peer, senior-to-junior, faculty-to-student, faculty to parent and even community mentoring.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu lost to defending champion Tai Tzu Ying while K.Srikanth and HS Prannoy made it to the quarter finals of the of the Indonesia Open in Jakarta on Thursday.

New Delhi: It was dream come true for Jyoti and Aranta the two-star players in the Indian team, taking part in the 6th Asian Women’s Club League Handball Championship which began in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

Bhubaneswar: Kartik Kumar claimed a gold with a meet record of 29:01.84 in the 10,000m run, in which three other athletes also breached the qualifying mark for the Asian Games, at the 62nd National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships here on Thursday.

New Delhi: Indian compound men’s and women’s teams won bronze medals at the Archery World Cup stage 3 in Medellin, Colombia.

With issuance of notification by the Central Law Commission of India on June 14, 2023 soliciting views from the public and recognized religious organisations on Uniform Civil Code, the divisive politics of BJP-RSS clan has risen its head again, as usual, ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024. Since the issue has always been seen sharply dividing all religious communities in the entire country, it is a bad omen for the country at a time when the very democracy has been subjugated by the Hindutva communal politics.

One thing is getting certain and certain as we get closer and closer to the general elections 2024. That is, the BJP will go to any extent to win elections. Who can forget the 2019 elections on the heels of the Balakote airstrikes; which had at its source, a bloody militant attack that left over 40 soldiers killed? And, now, the senseless Manipur killings. Of course, there wouldn’t be a surgical/air strike into Myanmar because the Manipur elections are over and done with, but the suspected “militants” have their tails up, brazenly alleging that they had the BJP’s back!

The BJP-led union government announced the minimum support prices (MSP) for the Kharif Season 2023-24 on June 7, 2023 claiming that “the move is to ensure remunerative prices to growers for their produce and to encourage crop diversification”. The MSP announced is neither fair nor remunerative; it belies the hopes of the farmers and inflicts huge losses in their incomes. Let alone encouraging crop diversification, it discourages farmers from investing in agriculture.

At a time when scams galore including cash for teaching jobs, coal and cattle smuggling is dogging Trinamool Congress, it has been gifted a brownie point in the form of an alliance between Left and Indian Secular Front before the panchayat elections in West Bengal. The TMC stands to gain from an almost inevitable division of Opposition votes as Congress, an electoral ally of the Left Front in the rural polls having nothing to do with this new alliance.