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A call to Indianize and decolonize the legal and constitutional system of India may appear to be innocuous and even attractive. A closer look at such calls may show otherwise. Such a call is not new. However, the recent call is a little different in that it has succeeded in bringing a few of the sitting Supreme Court judges to its bandwagon. Some may even appear as its cheer-leaders from the floor of the Savarkarite and Golwalkarite stable.

With the Aam Aadmi Party, it’s not the Lucknowi ‘pehle aap, pehle aap’. For Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP—born out of the womb of an ‘andolan’—there is time still to conquer India and like the industrious ‘ant’, AAP slogs on, it’s ambitions intact in the future which could be as soon as March 10 later this year, when the results of the five-state assembly elections are declared and there will be winners and losers.

For years, the government has been loosely talking about making India a global manufacturing hub. Unfortunately, it does not have either a strong viable programme, or a reliable time frame, to make this happen. Despite having a big potential, India’s metal, engineering, defence hardware manufacturing, construction, shipbuilding and semiconductor industries failed to exploit the situation and turn a global player. Worse still, there are not many new Indian entrepreneurs interested in large scale engineering or industrial production. The list of top engineering companies in the country will show the lack of freshers in the field.

New Delhi: Playing to a plan Lakshya sen stunned World Champion Loh Kean Yew and doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy shocked three times world champion duo of Hendra Setiawan and Mohammad Ahsan to claim their first Yonex-Sunrise India Open crowns with convincing wins KD Jadhav Indoor Hall.

In the morning of Sunday January 16 2022, on a social media network a message was circulating in poetic form lamenting the extreme contrast in life and living due to poverty of resource and thinking. One contrast was in a stone idol with ornaments worth millions on inside a temple and a wildly shivering old woman due to lack of body cover on the temple steps outside. There were a dozen contrasts examples in the message obviously penned and circulated by a middle class family person.

New Delhi: Former champion PV Sindhu’s hopes of regaining the title went up in smoke as she lost to Thailand’s Supanida Katethong while home favourite Lakshya Sen and doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy registered contrasting victories to keep Indian hopes alive as they made it to their first Yonex-Sunrise India Badminton final here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Home favourite Lakshya Sen chalked out yet another come from behind victory as he ousted Malaysia’s Tze Yong Ng this afternoon to set up title clash with world champion Loh Kean Yew in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton here.

The third wave of COVID-19 has depressed the labour market in India. The first two weeks of the new year witnessed more stringent containment measures in several states and metropolis in the country resulting in closures of many economic activities, and this trend is most likely to continue in the coming weeks as the third waves advances to its peak. Market remains weak in general and labour market in particular. Jobs for daily wagers are significantly reduced, and many have lost their jobs.

Uttar Pradesh which dominates national politics, has had an eventful history in the assembly elections as well. As the state heads for polls, a look at its frequently changing governments and CMs, and the role of key leaders shows its fascinating twists and turns among different political parties.

So far, the BJP leadership has used party forums to accuse the Congress and its Punjab government of hatching a conspiracy to harm the prime minister on January 5, but on Wednesday, six BJP chief ministers, acting under a devious design struck the public domain accusing the security lapse was “pre-planned, well-orchestrated conspiracy” notwithstanding Supreme Court instituting an enquiry headed by a Retd Supreme Court justice.