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Bengaluru: Dominating the field for the third day in a row, Pranavi Urs shot 2-over 71 with four birdies against six bogeys and totaled 2-over 209 to win the ninth leg of the Hero WPGT at the Bangalore Golf Club on Friday.

The Congress high command led by president Sonia Gandhi decided at its Thursday meeting to start its proposed Bharat Jodo yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir within next few weeks and this yatra is scheduled to cover twelve states and two union territories measuring 3500 kms in 148 days. All indications suggest that Rahul Gandhi will lead the yatra and this mega show to be participated by lakhs of party workers and leaders, are meant to project Rahul Gandhi as the unquestionable leader of the grand old party.

The latest move of the government to declare around 1500 Hindi words as unparliamentary is an attempt to colonialize the language, it is also designed to completely transform the neo liberal and democratic image of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a threatening autocrat. With 2024 Lok Sabha election turning out to be the crucial electoral battle which will decide the future of Modi, this move has gained wider importance and urgency. Any laxity in putting a curb on the opposition activities, though it has not been so effective and lost much of its biting acumen, would prove disastrous for Modi.

BHOPAL: During the last week strange things have happened in Madhya Pradesh. Among these are the allegations by a senior BJP legislator Narayan Tripathi against his own party. Narayan Tripathi, ruling party MLA from Maihar constituency has publicly claimed that government officials are campaigning for the party. He has alleged that officials – from Patwaris to top brass – have been campaigning for BJP candidates.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The more things change, the more they remain the same. This seems to be very true in the case of the Congress party in Kerala.

The recessionary trends in some of the advanced economies and the prolonged Ukraine-Russian war notwithstanding, India’s foreign trade continues to be on the upswing. After clocking over $400 billion merchandise exports for the first time in 2021-22, the new financial year has begun well with exports recording 24 per cent growth in the first quarter 2022-23 at $118.96 billion. This is a welcome development as FIEO President A Sakthivel says it has come amidst challenging geo-political and rising global uncertainties.

Left Wing Extremism (LWEs), earlier known as Naxalism, is armed rebellion by tribals and others against the rule of law based system of constitutional democratic governance in the country considered as centuries of cumulative exploitations by the rulers in the form of gradual deprivation of the tribe’s inherent right to Jal (Water), Zameen (Land) and Jungle (Forests) for all round development of India. Deforestation for mining, industry and infrastructure is viewed by the LWEs as thecontinuing deprivation of their traditional habitats and livelihoods. Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in concert with the affected LWE States have been tackling the issues raised by the tribals to ensure peace and progress over the years. But their armed resistance has been continuing although, as claimed by the MHA, there has been perceptible improvement in the LWEs affected States.

The biggest labour reform in Independent India is yet again deferred owing to the multiple challenges that no stakeholder was fully prepared to face from July 1 deadline. Centre could not get the rules framed and notified by all the states, many of them are still hesitant over the rules, the joint platform or the Central Trade Unions threatening to offer even stiffer opposition if unilaterally implemented, and even majority of employees were not ready for the new rules. The fear of emergence of new challenges and perceived inability to handle them successfully at this time of multiple crises facing the country including joblessness and price rise contributed as additional factors that led to another uncertainty over the next deadline.

Bengaluru: Pranavi Urs carded 2-over 71 and with an aggregate par 138 for 36 holes, extended lead to three shots over nearest rival Sehar Atwal at the end of the second round of the 9th leg of the Hero WPGT at the Bangalore Golf Club on Thursday.

‘Ashamed’, ‘abused’, ‘corrupt’ and ‘betrayed’. These and other select words cannot be used in Parliament. Against each other and against the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Rajya Sabha Chairman, starting Monday, July 18, the first day of the Monsoon Session. For example, honourable MPs cannot term the Prime Minister ‘Covid-spreader’, or ‘jumlajeevi’. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha will expunge.