View Articles

In the race to be the first among the opposition leaders for taking on the BJP at the national level, it appears that Arvind Kejriwal has edged ahead of Mamata Banerjee for the moment. The reason is not only the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) impressive victory in Punjab, but also the violence in Birbhum which has tarnished the Trinamool Congress’s image.

Even King Soloman wouldn’t succeed in breaking this stalemate. There is one baby, Chandigarh, and two states claiming to be mothers, Punjab and Haryana, both unwilling to sacrifice the baby or hand it over to the other. By right, Punjab is the "mother" and should get the ‘baby’. Everyone, from Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi, tried to do justice to Punjab, but Punjab remained cheated, and Haryana combative.

Modi’s doubling farmers income by 2022 has miserably failed. There were many hurdles in the way, and chief among them was the faulty and unreasonable policies of the Centre itself. It resulted into a situation in which tomatoes were being sold at Rs 3 per kg and ginger at Rs 5 per kg, even leads the farmers not to pluck their produce as the plucking cost will be much more than the selling price.

A degenerated ideology will ultimately give rise to a perverse electo-political system and create a deviant political vacuum. Notwithstanding the BJP grabbing the power in Uttar Pradesh in the recent assembly election, the state suffers with an acute political vacuum. An insight into the nature of the political vacuum makes it obvious that there is little possibility getting this repaired in near future.

Prices are bubbling up. Food, fuel and fertiliser costs are surging almost daily. Inflation seems to have got a free pass in India. The country’s wholesale price index, which tracks goods at factory gates, rose almost 13 percent from a year earlier in January. The gauge has recorded double-digit increases for 10 straight months. The benchmark consumer price index, which also includes services, has breached the top of the Reserve Bank’s tolerance range of two to six percent annual gains. The central bank is eerily silent or remains constantly tolerant to rising inflation. RBI seems to have forgotten the universally admitted principle that makes central banks play a very crucial role in ensuring economic and financial stability by controlling inflation.

Bhubaneswar: Defender Harmanpreet Singh scored a hat-trick to enable India overpower England 4-3 in the second leg of their Hockey Pro League match at the Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday.

Calicut: Long Jumper J Jeswin Aldrin (Tamil Nadu) with a wind-aided leap of 8.37m created a new National record to hog the limelight on the second day of the 25th AFI National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships in the C H Muhammed Koya Stadium here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Riding on goalkeeper Bichu Devi Kharibam ‘s heroics India downed favourite Germany 2-1 to record their second successive win in pool D of the Hockey Women's Junior World Cup in Potchefstroom South Africa, on Sunday.

Calicut: Long distance runners Kartik Kumar ,Sajivani Baburao Jadhav Pole Vaulter Rosy Meena Paulraj recorded personal best efforts to claim gold medals the opening day of the 25th AFI Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships at the C. H. Muhammed Koya Stadium here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Indian men and women boxers received contrasting draws at the Thailand Open International Boxing tournament commencing in Phuket on Sunday.