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New Delhi: India will field three teams in the Open section after getting a last-minute entry to register their highest-ever participation at the 44th Chess Olympiad scheduled to be held at Mahabalipuram from July 28 to August 10.

Drug prices in India in general, and essential life-saving medicines in particular, have become too costlier to afford for majority of 1.38 billion population in India since April 1, especially those 800 million people who did not have even food to eat during the COVID-19 crisis, which had compelled the Government of India to announce free foodgrains, the scheme that has been extended until September, 2022.

It is all very well that the petition moved by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for combining all the FIRs registered against her in different parts of the country for her offending remarks about Prophet Mohammed has been dismissed by a Supreme Court vacation bench in a two-line order.

Now that ‘Operation Lotus’, Maharashtra edition, has successfully added the richest state in the realm to the 2024 BJP war-chest, ‘Operation Lotus’, Telangana edition, is ready for launch. And Telangana is in the neighbourhood, right next to Maharashtra. Therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party is holding its national executive in Hyderabad with Prime Narendra Modi also planning to hold a “massive rally” in Secundrabad on Sunday.

Over the past decades, the Hindu-Muslim axis has once again emerged as the Central pole of Indian politics. But now, a period of churn has set in, following a raft of incidents, the latest being the brutal daylight murder of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur by two Muslim men, because the former, backed the controversial comments on Prophet Mohammed by a former BJP spokesperson. The current state of sectarian tensions were inevitable in a way, because majoritarian rhetoric has been part of the ruling party’s electoral agenda.

New Delhi: Ace goal keeper and captain Savita on Saturday promised a better showing by Indian Women team against England in their first pool B match at the FIH Women's Hockey World Cup at Amstelveen (Netherlands) on Sunday.

It’s a good time, almost 12 years after the world soccer body, FIFA, awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup hosting rights and five months before the tournament, to evaluate the campaign to reform the country’s erstwhile onerous labour system and accommodate fans whose lifestyles violate restrictive laws and/or go against deeply rooted cultural attitudes.

Foreign contributions to individuals, associations and companies are regulated by the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (‘FCRA’). The central aim of the Act is to prohibit foreign contributions, the utilisation of which may be for activities detrimental to the national interest. The FCRA was amended by the Parliament in 2020 to prohibit sub-transfer of foreign contributions to any other person, reduce the use of foreign contributions for administrative activities to 20 per cent from the existing 50 per cent, mandate that foreign contributions could be received at the State Bank of India’s (‘SBI’) New Delhi branch, and registration or renewal of registration would require Aadhaar as proof — among other things. Clubbed together, these have primarily impacted Non-Governmental Organisations (‘NGOs’).

There is no mistaking it. The drastic decline in migrant remittances over the last few years has affected Kerala’s fiscal health.

The BJP juggernaut is on the roll. As the second half of the 2022 calendar year begins, the opposition parties remain toothless and rudderless. Right now, BJP has begun its three-day national executive session at Hyderabad. The buoyant leadership is focusing on the next assembly elections in Karnataka due early next year. The coup d’état against the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance government in Maharashtra is now complete, with the regime change on June 30 following resignation of the Shiv Sena Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Uddhav was emerging as a capable leader of the anti-BJP forces. His downfall is a big setback to the MVA in the state, as also the overall opposition at national level.