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The Modi government has been trying to impose Hindi as the official language through various means. The recent instance is the report of the Committee of Parliament on Official Language headed by the union home minister, Amit Shah. The 11th volume of the committee’s report has been presented to the president of India.

The heroic city of Vijayawada is all set to host the 24thCongress of Communist Party of India (CPI). The city has hosted the Party Congress twice before, in 1961 and 1975. On October 14, 2022, the Red flag, the flag of hope will be unfurled there again to mark the beginning of the 24thCongress of the Communist Party of India. Up to October 18, the days and nights of Vijayawada will be electrified with purposeful discussions and meaningful path searching.

Chennai: Bangaluru based Pragathi Gowda and Australia’s 19-year old Taylor Gill, were declared winners of the FIA Rally Star Asia-Pacific Final at the Madras International Circuit, here on Wednesday.

Gandhinagar: Formidable Services completed their domination of the National Games in a blaze of glory, winning 128 medals including 61 gold here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Vice-President of India, Jagdeep Dhankar will flag off the 17th Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon, here on Sunday.

Gurugram: Caroline Hedwall, the winner of the Hero Women's Indian Open in 2011, has confirmed her participation in this year's edition of the tournament.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A case of ‘human sacrifice’, in which two women were brutally killed, has shocked Kerala. It is difficult to believe that such an act of unspeakable barbarity should happen in a progressive state like Kerala. But that is the chilling reality to which traumatized Keralites must come to terms.

Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor is getting under the other Congress presidential candidate's skin, party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, who has to now defend himself from marketplace innuendos that his name for the top party post was “suggested” by none other than the party’s interim president, Sonia Gandhi.

Chief Justice U U Lalit can feel happy that his 74-day tenure, coming to an end on November 8, is not the shortest in the history of India’s Supreme Court. That dubious record belongs to the 22nd chief justice, K N Singh, who occupied that position for a mere 17 days, followed by Justice S Rajendra Babu, with a tenure of 30 days in the year 2004. The year 2022 will also have the distinction of having seen three chief justices in office. The average tenure of CJIs in India is one-and-a-half years. The short tenures mean that the occupant of the highest position in the country’s judiciary retires even before the incumbent can settle down in the chair.

Gandhinagar: Services with a tally of 124 medals including 56 gold are all set to win the Raja Bhalindra Singh Trophy as the champion team in the National Games for the fourth time in succession.