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LUCKNOW: The visit of leaders from different political parties to Sefai village in Itawah in Uttar Pradesh to meet Akhilesh Yadav to condole the death of his father and founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav had significance for future alliances by SP to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants it changed. Kharge knows this and the vanquished Shashi Tharoor knows this, too.

Gurugram: Veteran Linda Wessberg (Sweden) carded 7-under 65 that included an ace, to lead the star-studded Hero Women’s Indian Open after the first round at the DLF Golf club here on Thrusday. The hole-in-one, which fetched her Rs. 200,000 also gave her the slender lead.

New Delhi: Playing some brilliant golf the ‘A-Team’ upstaged Defending Champions ‘BMW Deutsche-Motoren’ to set up a title clash with ‘Baale Golf’ in the ‘Lloyd Delhi Golf Club League’ here.

New Delhi: Maaya Revathi ousted fourth seed Aishwarya Jadav 6-3, 6-2 to enter the semi-finals of the (under-16) Girls section of the Fenesta Open tennis championship here on Thursday.

On October 16, 2019, when the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi read out the unanimous verdict on Ayodhya case, something that aroused as much curiosity as the judgment by five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court was its authorship. In a departure from convention, the judgment did not carry author’s name. But as the experts found, some vital clues emerged: the language and structure of the 929-page document, broken down into chapters, bore the mark of D V Chandrachud. Almost all its judgments, they pointed out, be it Aadhar, right to privacy or Sabrimala, followed that pattern.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has, once again, kicked up a controversy by warning the ministers in the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet of expulsion if they make critical comments about him.

After International Monetary Fund recognized India as a bright spot in a gloomy world economy in view of the impending recession, high inflation and none too comfortable geo-political situation. It is true that India is better off than other major economies where the slowdown and economic woes are much more. This does not give us solace as Indian economy too is slowing down though not as rapid and drastic as other major economies. The future is bright but there are major economic woes which need immediate fixing that too through big ticket structural reforms. Immediate short-term prospects of the economy is not that bright as is made out to be as there are cracks in macro-economic fundamentals which were otherwise strong for quite a while now.

Most times we forget there is also Himachal Pradesh in the Union. Tucked between Punjab and the high Himalayas, largely Hindu–dominated with a burgeoning Muslim-led demographic change. This is a state nestling in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, a paradise on earth largely gone unnoticed because the pure-driven snow hasn’t so far been shaken and stirred by the rip-roar of too many contentious issues.

The truth is now in the public domain. While admiring “Nari Shakti (women’s power) on August 15, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Narendra Modi resorted to uncanny act of concealing the fact that 11 rapists of Bilkis Begum and killers of her seven family members would be released the same day at the direction of the home ministry of Amit Shah. Bilkis Bano was five months pregnant when she was gang-raped during the riots of 2002. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members killed.