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Bhubaneswar: Defending champion India start favourite against France as they commence their campaign to retain the title at the Junior Hockey World Cup here on Wednesday.

Article 222(1) of the Constitution of India provides that “the President may, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, transfer a Judge from one High Court to any other High Court.” This power was very rarely used until 1976. According to data provided in the Supreme Court’s 1977 judgment in Union of India vs. Sankalchand Himmatlal Sheth, only 25 High Court judges were transferred in the first 26 years after the Constitution came in place. The power was then in the hands of the Union Government and by convention (not law), all these transfers were made with the consent of the concerned judges.

BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan is making all out efforts to expand the party's base by showering benefits on tribals, a major rift has been caused in the party with veteran party leader Uma Bharti publicly questioning the decision of withdrawal of farm laws by the Prime Minister. "I am stunned and hurt," tweeted Uma Bharti while commenting on the withdrawal of farm laws. Bharti also said that it meant BJP workers have failed to explain the laws. While the state BJP remained tightlipped, Madhya Pradesh Congress thanked her for 'exposing BJP's weaknesses'.

AIMIM head Asaduddin Owaisi is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s true friend, the kind who swears by "a friend in need is friend indeed." And these days aren’t easy for the BJP. There are elections in five states. The party’s iconic leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost trust with the hoi polloi even as farmers say they can’t believe he will keep his word. When he was Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had headed a panel that promised to fix the MSP but when it came time to deliver, Modi had chosen to ditch rather than to pitch!

With only less than three months left for the assembly elections to the five states in February/March 2022, full scale preparations at the level of BJP's central leadership as also state leaders to look for maximum allies to take on the Congress and the other parties like Samajwadi Party and the AamAadmi Party in the assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. As of now, BJP is far advanced as against the other contenders in campaigning and resource mobilisation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known for stooping. However, political compulsions made him roll back the three contentious farm laws last week. He has realized that whenever political opposition and mass movements come together, it impacts politics. As a shrewd politician, he chose to retreat. In his national television address on Friday he apologized, “Today, I beg the forgiveness of my countrymen and say with a pure heart and honest mind that perhaps there was some shortcoming.”

New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Monday announced that all the age category domestic tournaments to be played till March 2022 will be considered as the selection event for trials.

Within a few days of unilateral announcement of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the three controversial farm laws, the whole range of issues relating to farms and farmers have become complicated. The reasons on the surface is unilateralism of Modi and hardening stance of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) but the deep underneath there are several long unsolved issues, the solution of which requires a new approach to farm and farmers.

The joint movement of the farmers has finally led to the announcement by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the withdrawal of the three farm laws which can be termed as the most significant political defeat of the PM in his tenure of last seven and half years.PM announced such a decision without taking any approval of his cabinet. It will be formally done only on Wednesday at the cabinet meeting.

In January 2013, while India was coping with the gruesome Nirbhaya gang rape, the first division of two India(s) (post 1947), was done by Mohan Bhagwat, the sixth Sarsanghchalak, or chief, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Bhagwat claimed that violence against women does not occur in Bharat, but it occurs frequently in India”. Bhagwat then went on to call marriage a “social contract” and defined the “standard” gender roles of the spouses, that is, the husband must protect the wife who has to take care of household chores only.