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On the September 16, 2021, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir, headed by lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha, issued an administrative order titled ‘Verification of Character and Antecedents of Government employees’ (GO No. 957-JK (GAD) of 2021). Under the order, a government employee can be dismissed for mere “association with” any person involved in or aiding acts of “sabotage, espionage, treason, terrorism, subversion, sedition, secession, facilitating foreign interference, incitement to violence or any other unconstitutional act.” Further, a government employee can also be dismissed if their immediate family or anyone sharing the same residential space is or has been involved in any of the acts listed above, “directly or indirectly”, because they might subject the employee “to duress, thereby posing a grave security risk”.

New Delhi: It rained medals for India as the country swept all 12 available on the last day of competitions, to finish on top with a whopping 43-medals, in the ISSF Junior World Championship Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun at the Las Palmas Shooting range in Lima (Peru).

New Delhi: Admitting that the Hockey Stars Awards have created an unwarranted controversy International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Monday said that it will work on the future awards with the global hockey community and will engage with many stakeholders to come up with a process that receives the support of most, and then go with it for next year.

New Delhi: The Delhi Capitals opener Prithvi Shaw has promised a strong comeback in qualifier 2 saying "I really believe that we can do something special in the next match and go through to the IPL Final."

Decades after Franz Fanon, perceptive readers’ community the world over will queue at bookstands for books of Zanzibari fiction writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate for literature in 2021. From his debut novel ‘Memory of Departure’ (1987) to Afterlives (2020) one is acquainted with the plight of coastal Muslim communities and their confrontation with European imperialism. They were never abandoned by Muslim empire.

The politics of the post-cold war period were originally dominated by the famous claim of Francis Fukuyama that we had reached “the end of history” — neoliberalism was now the only game in town and in the words of our own champion of Chicago school economics, there was “no alternative” to letting the market run riot.

The Scheduled Tribes (ST) constituted 9.4 per cent of the population of India and are the poorest, with 65 million of the 129 million people living in multidimensional poverty, and among all multidimensional poor five out of six are from lower tribes or castes. This revelation by the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender, by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is indeed shocking.

It took Home Minister Amit Shah seven years to tell countrymen that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the “most democratic leader” he has known in 20 years. But why believe Shah? After all, Shah and Modi are not very different. If Modi is “democratic”, then Amit Shah must also be “democratic”. Actually, Modi has a style of functioning and taking decisions that insists against all opposition that only "Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai!"

New winds are blowing in the political landscape of the country, seemingly contradictory, for the emergence of a strong front of the opposition parties to fight the BJP in the coming assembly as also in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.

It is good to see that buyers are no longer willing to wait. This October-December festive season hopefully promises to be a buyers’ paradise. The country’s marketing and sales firms have long been waiting for such a situation. Buyers are no longer scared of the pandemic, which is on the decline anyway. India’s busy economic season seems to have started with a big bang. After a 20-month hiatus, Indian consumers are rushing for goods and services — from real estates, automobiles, white and brown goods, gold jewelleries, fashion articles, various luxuries and home decors to travel — like never before.