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The finance minister of Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Khanna, was absolutely right in saying: “Some decisions are taken in heaven. Whatever happened was kudrat’s (nature’s) justice, decided in heaven.” That the assassinations of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf was carried out following a ‘divine order’ is clearly manifest in Yogi government outright ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court and violating the defined security rules.

With the state assembly election later this year, Congress faces a political crisis again. The party lost Punjab last year because of mishandling by the Gandhis by backing the wrong horse. Will the Congress leadership be able to save Rajasthan from going the Punjab way?

Just one year is left for the holding of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April/May 2024. The non-BJP opposition parties are having discussions for building a comprehensive unity of the opposition political parties who are determined to remove Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power at the coming Lok Sabha polls. This can be done by the opposition getting on its own majority seats out of the total of 543 or in the case of a hung Lok Sabha, by joining with the other fence sitting non-BJP parties to deny the Prime Minister another term as the leader of the BJP led NDA.

New Delhi: Commonwealth Games gold medalist Achanta Sharat Kamal, defending champion Gnanasekaran Sathiyan, title contender Soumyajit Ghosh will headline the star cast at the 41st PSPB Inter Unit Table Tennis Tournament to be held at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here from 18th to 21st April.

Chennai: International hockey returns to Chennai after 16 years as Hockey India on Monday announced that capital of Tamil Nadu will be the venue for the Hero Asian Champions Trophy.

New Delhi: A 19-member Indian Men's boxing squad on Monday left for Tashkent, to participate in a 12 day long multi-nation training camp ahead of the World Boxing Championships which is scheduled to be held there from 30 April to May 14.

The Narendra Modi Government has come out with a new Foreign Trade Policy that aims to achieve $ two trillion exports by 2030 — that is $1 trillion of goods or merchandise exports and an additional $1 trillion services exports. It certainly looks a tall order going by the past records. Indian government led by UPA came out with a foreign trade policy in 2013 to achieve $500 billion goods exports in three years when annual merchandise exports was around $300 billion at that point of time. The government changed in 2014 and till now that $500 billion goods exports target has not been achieved.

LUCKNOW: The brutal killing of mafia don Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody in full public glare outside Prayagraj hospital where entire media was also present has not only shocked the civic society but also exposed the deterioration in law and order situation in the state. The failure of the police force to protect Mafia don Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf has also affected the image of the Uttar Pradesh police force.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is walking a tightrope in trying to amicably resolve an intra-party feud between veteran Ashok Gehlot and young Turk Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan. Working out a compromise formula by Kharge seems to be asking for the moon as both the feuding leaders seem to possess a winner takes all mindset.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is the soul and spirit of the Aam Aadmi Party, which recently achieved “national party” status, couldn’t care less right now for an electoral alliance with a party or parties for the 2024 general elections. Not the day after he was questioned by the CBI on the Delhi excise policy, which he said was a witch-hunt against AAP and its leaders, the SOP of the Modi government as also alleging witch-hunt happens to be the SOP of all political parties accused of impropriety, corruption, etcetera, etcetera... .