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We have just seen last week as to how the blame game played by the NarendraModi led BJP and the ArvindKejriwal led AAP in the National Capital Territory Delhi did not help deal with pollution in the Yamuna river water, though their rules contribute 80 per cent of the pollution within 22 km stretch of the river. Blames were leveled even against other states – Haryana and Utter Pradesh – the river passes through. The same blame game is repeated again for severe air pollution now while the national capital is gasping for breath. Obviously, it will also fail to improve the air quality as we have seen in the case of Yamuna water pollution. We actually need concrete action, not the blame game by the ruling establishments to shift their responsibilities on others, the Supreme Court of India said.

For the first time, the Trinamool Congress, CPI(M)-led Left Front and Indian National Congress together protested against the Union ministry of home affairs’ arbitrary extension of the territorial jurisdiction of the Border Security Force through a notification on 11 October from 15 km to up to 50 km from the international border. The resolution was passed in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly under Rule 169 for legislative assemblies, with 112 Trinamool Congress MLAs voting for it and 63 BJP legislators against. The extension of the territorial jurisdiction of BSF is interference in the internal matters of the state, which will destroy the federal structure of the country, it stated.

So, there is now one more reason why you should be born a chaiwala’s son with a free pass to travel on all trains passing through the little railway station not far from where you rest your tired head every night. You, of course, can aspire to be Prime Minister. Now, there’s the added attraction of landing on an e-way in an IAF C-130 J Super Hercules aircraft!

If you can’t fight the enemy, join them. This is an adage that has found expression at different points of history and by different authors. This best describes the predicament of central banks when it comes to cryptocurrencies. One can only sympathise with them as the digital currency ecosystem is targeting to replace exactly the central banks. But central bankers around the world are reconciling themselves with the new reality and exploring the possibility of working together with the decentralised monetary system, the very antithesis of whatever today’s central banks are and what they want things to be like.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has galvanised the rank and file of her party to take on BJP and make significant impact in the assembly polls. There is a realisation in Congress that the party may not get a good number of seats but it would gain in the number of votes in every constituency and ultimately prepare for Lok Sabha polls in 2024.

Will there be a third wave of covid -19? The Health Ministry has been warning of a possible third wave for some weeks now, although no one knows whether it will hit India at all and, if it does, how severe will it be. Covid 19has had its periods of surge and lull, and right now, it is a lull.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the AamAadmi Party, which of the two is brave, and which coward? Before the answer is out, a couple of things. One, both parties will be contesting the assembly elections in five states. Two, if reports are to be believed, AAP has the upper hand in Punjab, and the BJP has scaled up its chances in Uttar Pradesh after the low during Covid-19 phase 2. Three, the farmers’ protests: AAP is considered pro-farmers; the BJP is anti-farmers.

BJP's Chanakya, the grand strategist Home Minister Amit Shah is in action. He is moving like a wounded lion after his disastrous defeat at the hands of Bengal’s own tigress Mamata Banerjee in the latest assembly elections in Bengal. Shah had staked his everything in Bengal elections and he was confident till the last day before the poll results were out, that the BJP would gain majority, if not 200 seats out of the total 294 as he was claiming in the course of the election campaign. He lost hid Bengal gamble but this loss of face has made him more determined.

New Delhi: Ace forward and Olympian Lalremsiami will lead the 18-member Indian Junior Women's Hockey Team at the FIH World Cup to be played in South Africa from 5th to 16th of December.

Bhopal: The prime minister Narendra Modi today dedicated to the nation the redeveloped Rani Kamalapati Raliway Station.