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After the saffron party’s recent victory in the assembly polls, particularly in the northeastern state of Manipur, it was expected that there would be a positive impact in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the northeast, which financially depends mostly on the Centre. The return of the saffron party in the state of Manipur with a majority of its own shows that it is no longer an outsider in the region. The saffron party also won 7 seats in the Christian dominated hill region of the state. It had won 5 in this region in the 2017 state assembly polls. After its success in Manipur, the saffron party has set its target for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in the region.

Two-day workers strike across India on March 28-29 on the call of the joint platform of 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) - INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF and UTUC - and Sectoral Federations and Associations is getting larger support, barring from the pro-government Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), which has roots in RSS-BJP and naturally supports Modi government, though large number of workers affiliated with the BMS are going to participate in the general strike. In spite of the impending threat of Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA), many roadways and electricity workers, such as in Haryana and Chandigarh, have decided to strike. It should be an eye-opener for the Modi government since the country seems to be heading towards an ugly turn to embitter the already strained industrial relations in the country.

LUCKNOW: BJP has started preparations for 2024 Lok Sabha elections which is evident from w from rainbow coalition of various caste and social engineering reflected in ministry formation of Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath in Uttar Pradesh. Once again BJP has repeated two deputy chief Ministers giving prominence to backward caste and powerful brahmin community.

With self-interest having been the overarching consideration of US policies, whether domestic or international, or even relating to third party issues, Washington understands India’s Ukraine policy as much as New Delhi does. That explains why the US has been circumspect in criticising India for its stand on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While President Joe Biden described India’s policy as a Quad member ‘somewhat shaky’, a senior White House official said the other day India’s position at the United Nations over has been ‘unsatisfactory, but unsurprising’ given its historical relationship with Russia.

Now that the Narendra Modi government is firmly in saddle, it has re-opened the issue of linking Lok Sabha and assembly elections as was the practice till 1967. The argument advanced in favour of linking both elections are in these lines. It is argued that one of the major factors impending growth, development and implementation of policies is the fact that the nation is perennially in an election mode, witnessing more than five state assembly elections every year.

If you go into the details of the way the unannounced visit of the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, was handled in New Delhi on Friday, India was clearly “cold shouldering” the initiative. It is important to remember the visit was from the foreign minister of a P-5 nation and China is a heavyweight in the global order.

Gurugram: Hitaashee Bakshi became the second player to win multiple titles this season as she claimed the sixth leg of the 2022 Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Golden Greens Golf & Resorts on Friday.

New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Champion M R Lalith Babu nosed ahead of the field defeating young International Master Shahil Dey in the fifth round of the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament here on Friday.

New Delhi: Veer Ahlawat, fired a flawless 67 to take a two-shot lead at the halfway stage at a total of nine-under 135 in the $500,000 DGC Open at the Delhi Golf Club here on Friday.

Law performs both a normative function and a descriptive function. Criminal law constitutes offences which are punishable with imprisonment and/or fine. The law of rape is normatively defined in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as being a sexual act performed on a woman against her will, or without her consent. Hence, a normative element of the offence is the absence of ‘consent’ to the sexual act, defined as “unequivocal voluntary agreement when the woman by words, gestures or any form of verbal or non-verbal communication, communicates willingness to participate in the specific sexual act.” To this norm, there is an exception which is commonly known as the “marital rape exception”: