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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is a late bloomer. That said, he has been a Member of Parliament several times over and, therefore, cannot be reduced to a Johnny-come-lately. And after Amethi, he wasn’t a stranger to the voters of Wayanad. But it is hardly likely that Rahul Gandhi will retrace his steps to Amethi, the constituency that rejected him but was also a pocket borough of the Gandhi family for the longest of time.

Kisan Mahapanchayat, the Grand Assembly of the Farmers held on March 20 in Delhi, has signalled a bigger farmers’ movement on the cards. It was held after about four months of their beginning the second leg of farmers’ movement on November 26, 2022, when farmers marched to submit memorandums to governors across the country demanding fulfilment of unfulfilled promises made by the PM Narendra Modi and his government at the Centre.

After the recent meeting of the RSS’s Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) there is no ambiguity now that Narendra Modi or his ministerial colleagues or even the BJP leaders hardening their stand against Rahul Gandhi and seeking his apology are being ordained at the behest of the RSS. The one liner comment from the home minister Amit Shah is the only dissenting narration. Home minister Amit Shah said to allow the parliament function the government was ready to talk to opposition to end the logjam. He even said; “the government was ready to go “two steps ahead” to resolve the standoff if the Opposition took “two steps forward”.

Recent deaths in Gambia, Uzbekistan and the USA, caused by toxic and contaminated medicines manufactured in and exported by India, has put a question mark on the oversight, efficacy and quality control mechanism of the drugs regulator, the Central Drugs Standard Control 0rganisation (CDSCO). Be it the quality control of both branded and generic medicines, their pricing, rampant manufacturing and marketing of spurious drugs across the country, collusion of National Medical Commission (NMC) and CDSCO, thriving of drug mafia impacting diagnostics, prescriptive medicines, commercialization of healthcare system as a whole are symptomatic of the malaise of all round failure of both the regulators, resulting in fleecing of the people. Medical doctors in private corporate hospitals working on periodic target basis for both diagnostic and prescriptive medicines, in case of failing to meet the target, are fired instantly, is yet another scam indicating crass commercialization and high costs of healthcare, happening with the connivance of the regulators.

New Delhi: The Bridge Federation of India (BFI) on Monday named 18-member squad for the Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China from 23 September to 08 October 2023.

Gurugram: A star-studded field with record number of entries with the highest ever prize fund for a domestic event will be the feature of the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour getting underway at the DLF Golf and Country Club here from Tuesday.

New Delhi: Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and the Asian Championships bronze medallist Sakshi Choudhary came up with stellar performances as they thrashed their rivals by identical 5-0 verdicts to move into the quarter finals of the 75 and 52kg categories respectively at the Rs 20 crore Mahindra IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex here on Monday.

There are lot of discussions in the media about the recent meeting of the Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in which both of them said that they would explore the possibility of bringing together the political parties opposed to both the Congress and the BJP. Both the leaders opined against giving the leadership of the opposition to the Congress. Some commentators are saying as if this position of the two leading opposition parties will lead to big cracks in opposition unity efforts facilitating the process of bringing the BJP to power for the third time after 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

A Sanskrit adage “vinas kale viprit buddhi” has once again made its incredible appearance in the political circles. It was in 1975 Jayprakash Narayan had used it for Indira Gandhi when she instead of taking recourse to debate and discussion and find out the solution to the vexed political situation the country was facing at that time, imposed Emergency and pushed the opposition leaders in jail.

LUCKNOW: Congress Party is facing its biggest dilemma in Uttar Pradesh on whether to revive organisation and boost morale of party leaders and workers to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls solo or leave the space for Samajwadi Party and its alliance.