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New Delhi: The Committee of Administrators (CoA) has submitted the draft constitution of the All-India Football Federation, to the Supreme Court for its approval.

For rightist Conservative Party, choosing a visionary and able administrator as the prime minister in place of Boris Johnson has indeed become a major combative task. This was for the first time that party was deprived of a talented leader. After coming to power three years ago, Boris decapitated his party of talent. Scared of the abilities and political acumen of his rivals he threw out Rudds Hammonds, Gaukes, Clarks and Greenings. He did not allow any space to the politicians who could be construed as a better personality in the matter of competence and dignity to the governance. Boris Johnson preferred to rely on the less known mortals.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A flaming political row has erupted over the controversial comment made by former minister and CPI(M) MLA M M Mani against Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) MLA K K Rema in the Kerala Assembly.

Those who wrote the PFI document, currently in circulation, to convert India into an Islamic state by 2047 know their English. The grammar is clean and it took the author just eight pages to conquer India lock, stock and barrel. The long and short of it is, Indian Muslims want to rule all over again. The British uprooted them, and the “cowardly Hindus” usurped in 1947. Now, 75 years on, there is this PFI document to restore Muslim rule in India.

US and European acquiescence in Turkey's long-standing refusal to honour Kurdish ethnic, cultural, and political rights came home to roost when Turkey initially objected to Finnish and Swedish membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Ultimately, Turkey postponed potential conflict in NATO by dropping its initial objection to Finland and Sweden’s application.

Bengaluru: Dominating the field for the third day in a row, Pranavi Urs shot 2-over 71 with four birdies against six bogeys and totaled 2-over 209 to win the ninth leg of the Hero WPGT at the Bangalore Golf Club on Friday.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent his resignation — first by email and a hard copy flown in from Singapore. The authenticity of the resignation has been verified and it has been accepted as authentic. The Parliament Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, officially announced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday. And, he has promised a new President in a week. Meanwhile, the opposition parties have called a meeting on July 20 to work out a consensus to choose a new president.

The Congress high command led by president Sonia Gandhi decided at its Thursday meeting to start its proposed Bharat Jodo yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir within next few weeks and this yatra is scheduled to cover twelve states and two union territories measuring 3500 kms in 148 days. All indications suggest that Rahul Gandhi will lead the yatra and this mega show to be participated by lakhs of party workers and leaders, are meant to project Rahul Gandhi as the unquestionable leader of the grand old party.

The latest move of the government to declare around 1500 Hindi words as unparliamentary is an attempt to colonialize the language, it is also designed to completely transform the neo liberal and democratic image of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a threatening autocrat. With 2024 Lok Sabha election turning out to be the crucial electoral battle which will decide the future of Modi, this move has gained wider importance and urgency. Any laxity in putting a curb on the opposition activities, though it has not been so effective and lost much of its biting acumen, would prove disastrous for Modi.

BHOPAL: During the last week strange things have happened in Madhya Pradesh. Among these are the allegations by a senior BJP legislator Narayan Tripathi against his own party. Narayan Tripathi, ruling party MLA from Maihar constituency has publicly claimed that government officials are campaigning for the party. He has alleged that officials – from Patwaris to top brass – have been campaigning for BJP candidates.