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New Delhi: Top seed Hitesh Chauhan had to battle hard to overpower gritty Arjun Rathi in three sets, while Maaya Revathi outlasted spirited Laxmi Siri Dandu to win the (u-16) boys and girls titles respectively of Fenesta Open National Tennis championship here on Saturday.

The leaders of the saffron brigade, RSS and BJP, are quite annoyed with the Supreme Court’s concern over hate speech and putting the simple question; “what have we reduced religion to? There cannot be fraternity unless members of community drawn from different religions or castes of the country are able to live in harmony”.

“Encryption safeguards the personal security of billions of people and the national security of countries around the world.”

When chief minister, Mamata Banerjee said that it was CPI-M and not she who drove away the Tatas from Singur small car project, it was no throwaway remark. Twin hidden agenda lay in it which include diverting the Opposition criticism from issues troubling her dispensation together with an eye on votes in the panchayat elections scheduled early next year.

On October 21, when the Supreme Court asked police of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to initiate direct action against hate speech and not “wait for complaints”, adding that “hesitation” will invite instant retribution, the first thought that came to mind was that the Supreme Court had finally applied the much-needed stick to the police lathi.

“Ek parinda bhi nahi mar sakta Ayodhya main (I will not allow a bird to flap its wing in Ayodhya)”—the line famously delivered by Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1990 that was to make him presiding deity of M-Y (Muslim—Yadav) politics in Uttar Pradesh for quarter of a century after that.

Recent hate speeches by a BJP MP and an MLA in Delhi to a mob attack in a mosque in Gurugram by RSS Pariwar goons indicate that a hate wave has gripped the country. With no punitive action or punishment for spewing hate and flouting the rule of law and political silence at the very top of the union government the hate brigade has been further emboldened. What will it take to turn the rising hate tide in the country? Simultaneously, the RSS Pariwar Union Government has decimated the rule of law by weaponising the public institutions to settle scores with political and business rivals, making the country unsafe for investment. Judiciary has also caved-in to the majoritarian governance mode although individual judges outshine in upholding the constitutional postulates of justice, equality, liberty and fraternity of our people.

Gurugram: Two home challengers Gaurika Bishnoi and Amandeep Drall played contrasting rounds but got into a four-way lead at the midway stage of the US$400,000 Hero Women’s Indian Open at the DLF Golf & Country Club here on Friday.

New Delhi: Maaya Rajesh Revathi and Siri Dandu. Laxmi chalked out tough victories over their respective rivals to set up a title in the U-16 Girls event at the Fenesta Open tennis championship on Friday.

The presidential election has virtually split the grand old party of India, the Congress, on ideological plane. Congress has been a conglomerate of people having divergent political and social backgrounds. It never had a defined ideological line. The party primarily followed the centrist political line. Even in the pre independence days if it had leaders like Vallab Bhai Patel and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, it also had Marxist oriented leaders too on its decision making bodies.