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India’s well-lit prisons are home to lakhs of under-trials languishing in them for years on end because the courts of the land have no time to spare for the mountains of cases they are saddled with. And because investigating agencies challenge all bail requests, as also all bail orders. To the defence lawyers and the families of the accused, it is frustrating, to say the least, but to the under-trials, it is more days and nights in the stifling jail conditions.

India’s booster dose policy announced on April 8 by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is clearly anti-poor, since de facto they cannot get vaccinated with booster doses against COVID-19, though theoretically they are also eligible to have it at private vaccination centres along with any adult aged 18 years or above.

The Reserve Bank of India sees the prospects of higher inflation in the current year against the background of a volatile global economic situation.

In July 2002, APJ Abdul Kalam became choice for President as the ruling Atal Behari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance did not have enough votes to get anyone from its ideological family elected. Fifteen years later, the NDA-led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was much better placed yet it tried for a consensus pick.

New Delhi: Playing with a clinical precision India stunned Netherlands 2-1 recording their first win against the defending champions in over a decade in the Women Hockey Pro League at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, on Friday.

New Delhi: Amit Panghal, Ananta Chopde and Sumit made their way into the final while three women pugilists signed off with bronze medals at the Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament in Phuket on Friday.

New Delhi: Playing to a plan India outplayed Korea 3-0 to storm into the Semi Finals of the Hockey Women Junior World Cup at Potchefstroom (South Africa) on Friday.

From this academic session, all undergraduate admissions to central universities will be based on a single test, the Central University Entrance Test, rather than marks obtained in the school leaving board examinations. The University Grants Commission, the primary funding agency for central universities, announced the change barely three months before university admissions, while board examinations were on. To go by what the media reported, the UGC chairman has called the change “student friendly”, and said it will provide a “level playing field” to students writing a variety of state and central board examinations. Both arguments are hackneyed, and frankly, the institution with the mandate to regulate higher education was expected to give more cogent reasoning.

For the last two weeks prices on Petrol, diesel and cooking gas are increased twelve times. A litre of petrol costs Rs. 118.4 in Mumbai and diesel Rs 105 in Chittor. Rise in fuel prices has a cascading effect not just on transport but on sectors of economy too. Consequently with rising prices inflation is rising alarmingly. Finally the tax burden is falling on the workers and middle class while the super rich is gifted with tax breaks.

On April 6, The American Bazaar published an article that goes by the headline: Alphonsos arrive in America as USDA okays Indian mango Import. The news story talks about the excitement among the Asian communities in the US on the arrival of famous Indian mango varieties — Chausa, Dussheri, Langara, and Sindoori, apart from Alphonsos. The news story quotes an Indian American HR professional Krishna Kant as saying, “This is great news…. Of all the memories from India, the memories of devouring the sweetest, fleshiest mangoes back home in India bring a smile to all Indians.”