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World Air Quality Report 2021 has unmasked the Modi government showing its ugly face which has been masked since April 7, 2015 by a so called flagship scheme to monitor air pollution in the country with the launch of National Air Quality Index. Despite the big claims, air quality in the country continued deteriorating, reflecting unpardonable dismal performance of the Centre Pollution Control Board responsible for monitoring, and functioning directly under the Union Government, turning Delhi into World’s most polluted national capital and no city left without disastrous level of pollution, with 11 of them dominated 15 in the Central and South Asia and 63 dominated 100 most polluted cities of the world. The economic impact is loss of over $150 billion yearly, while three deaths every minute linked to it.

As predicted, the ’synchronised’ fraud by the Modi government and the petroleum marketing companies has resumed even before the state assemblies which went to poll in the recent round have been officially constituted. The open market policy, which has been kept in ‘suspended animation’ has come alive and the results are already visible. For three consecutive days, retail prices of petrol and diesel have been raised, coupled with that of the cooking gas and by all indications this is just the beginning.

Gurugram: Amandeep Drall, winner of the fifth leg last week, returns for the sixth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Golden Greens Golf & Resorts Ltd.

New Delhi: In a major upset, 14 year old Shivika Rohilla stunned Grandmaster RR Laxman in the first round of the 19th Delhi International Open Chess tournament that got under way here.

New Delhi: South African Ian Snyman, Indonesian Rory Hie, American Paul Peterson will headline the foreign challenge as top Indian professional including Gaganjit Bhullar, Rashid Khan, SSP Chowrasia, Shiv Kapur will battle it out for the top honours at the inaugural edition of the $500,000 DGC Open to be played at the Delhi Golf Club from March 24 to 27.

New Delhi: Spotlight will be on Steeplechaser Avinash Sable and Discus Thrower Kamalpreet Kaur as they return to competition in the Indian Grand Prix 2 Athletics meet in the Chandrasekharan Nair Police Stadium Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.

Will the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal emerge as a challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress Party, or both? No doubt winning Punjab will encourage him to spread his Aam Admi Party’s wings to other states, but can he achieve his ambition? It may be difficult as the other regional satraps have a firm hold on their fiefdoms to check his rise.

At a time when the common Muslim has been distancing himself from rigid religious beliefs, having faith in the rule of law, constitutional norms and be liberal, the verdict of the Karnataka High Court not to wear Hijab in school and colleges as it is not an essential religious practice under Islam will simply help and encourage the hard core Muslims to confuse and mislead the common and liberal Muslims.

But for this one panel member, who could not bear to see his hard work swept under the carpet, nobody would have known the "truth" about the three farm laws. The three farm laws were opposed by a big chunk of farmers, but, says a SC-appointed panel, there was a “silent majority” of farmers who supported the three farm laws and wanted them to stay.

The COVID-19 pandemic has "severely affected" the education system in India, however, Modi government has failed so far to take proper remedial response in the post-pandemic grim situation that has taken all level of education under its grip. The response so far is much less than the requirement, and whatever, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in the Lok Sabha on Monday 21, 2022, during question hour reflects the Centres callous attitude towards education in general, and education for the underprivileged in particular.