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When US intelligence asserted that Iran was selling hundreds of combat drones to Russia, it was signalling more than Iranian support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Men and women in black. The women outdoing the men in scaling police barricades. Especially Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The nationwide protests were against price rise; unemployment, and GST on “dahi and dhood” and other food items. Not surprisingly, the presser earlier in the morning made no mention of price rise, unemployment or GST. Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi dwelt on ‘darr’ and how the Congress was not afraid of Modi’s ‘darr’.

The way police are running berserk against innocent citizens, arresting them, framing them, implicating them under dreaded laws, incarcerating them, extorting them to make money, abusing their power of arrest, in violation of their service conduct rules, in defiance of the Constitution of India that assures fundamental rights to life, personal liberty, dignity, justice, equality, with malicious prosecution of innocents, all exemplify that democracy is dead in the country and there is no rule of law based system of constitutional democratic governance. There is no accountability of police to the people for misconduct, misdemeanor, partisan, unfair and malicious prosecution of innocents. In this context, checks and balances provided for in the institutions set up in the scheme of the Constitution are all non-functional as they are working, if at all, to serve the fascist union government’s design, where only anti-people and anti-poor decisions are taken.

New Delhi: In an edge of the seat match, India went down fighting to Australia 0-3 in penalty shootout after playing 1-1 draw in at the end of the regulation period in the semifinal of the Women's Hockey tournament at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Mamallapuram: Tania Sachdev and R,Vaishali chalked out hard fought victories to enable Indian women's A team beat sixth seed Azerbaijan with a 2.5-1.5 for their seventh successive win to maintain their sole lead in 14 points at the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Friday.

New Delhi: IAs freestyle Wrestling made its debut at the Games, Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik (women’s 62kg) and Bajrang Punia (men’s 65kg) as well as Anshu Malik (women’s 57kg) and Deepak Punia (men’s 86kg) made it through to the finals thereby assuring the country of medals.

Chennai: Veteran Prabhu Arunagiri (Pacer Yamaha) and Mumbai youngster Kayan Zubin Patel (Axor Sparks Racing) qualified for pole positions in Pro-Stock 165cc and Novice (Stock 165cc) categories, respectively, in the third round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the Madras International Circuit, here on Friday.

Co-founder of Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain network by market cap, Vitalik Buterin last week kicked up a storm by claiming that corporate efforts to create metaverse will not be successful. He specifically mentioned Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook), which suffered $10 billion of losses in 2021 and close to $6 billion in the first two quarters of 2022 on its metaverse project, saying its attempts in metaverse will “misfire”. Buterin said while metaverse “is going to happen”, corporate attempts to create it will not lead anywhere.

Spectrum (radio waves) is a scarce resource, and almost all of us may have already heard something about 2G, 3G, 4G, and now 5G. Even PM Narendra Modi has been championing for it for quite some time. However, it would be shocking to know that the management of spectrum in India has all along been plagued with adhocism, which made its availability uncertain, delayed, underutilized, and even denial in many cases, though it has been recognized world-over as an important tool for socio-economic development of a nation and it is needed for all wireless applications including mobile phones. Government and public institutions need it to provide public services, while the private organizations need it for value addition to their services.

Largely unnoticed by the Indian mainstream media, Bangladesh hosted the Ministerial Conference of Developing 8 grouping, D-8 for short, a few days ago. This relatively new alliance brings together eight Muslim countries spread from South East Asia to Africa.