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Panchkula: Veer Ahlawat carded a sedate one-under 71 but managed to keep the lead in round three of the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship at Panchkula Golf Club (PGC) on Friday.

Kalyani: Kolkata's Mohammedan Sporting (MDSP) club, overwhelmed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 5-1 in a Group A, to move into the quarterfinals of the 130th Durand Football Cup at the Kalyani Stadium on Friday.

Chennai: Local collegian Alwin Sundar (AS Motorsports) grabbed pole position in the Novice (Stock 165cc) category as the second round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship commenced at the MMRT, here on Friday.

Everywhere in the world people got vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus without having to pay a penny, but not in India. Everywhere in the world, historic landmarks that define a nation, that constitute the warp and woof of a nation’s consciousness, are held sacred and left untouched in their original shape, but not in India. Everywhere in the world, public assets that provide basic services, or cultural and educational services, to the people, are virtually free, but no longer in India. Behind this bizarre Indian exceptionalism is the Modi government’s peculiar agenda to turn everything into a commodity. Nothing is sacrosanct, nothing is hallowed, nothing transcends the market; everything is for sale.

Gurugram: Hyderabad teenager Sneha Singh produced error-free golf for a 3-under 69, the best round of the week, to chalk out a facile five-shot win in the 8th leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Golden Greens Golf Club here on Friday.

Afghanistan’s future remains in a state of flux. The US withdrawal has added to the uncertainty in the region. Afghanistan shares a 90 km border with China and this makes Beijing concerned about the developments in Kabul as instability and violence in Afghanistan directly impinges on its security and strategic interests.

The "Mini Secretariat"in Karnal, Haryana, is where the fired up farmers came after the hugely successful Muzaffarnagar ‘kisan mahapanchayat’, raring to put up a similar performance in the Karnal Anaj Mandi. There the farmers put forward three demands, hoping to nudge Chief Minister Manoharlal Khattar to correct several wrongs. But Khattar is aping Narendra Modi and hasn’t budged from his anti-farmer stance.

Old age dependency in India is increasing sharply, decades after decades, along with the number of elders. Though there are many government programmes to support them, they are utterly insufficient, and in many cases too little, as in old age pension scheme under National Social Assistance Programme which is still only Rs 200 per month for elders living below the poverty line and are between 60-79 years of age, while it is only Rs 500 thereafter.

18,40,00,00,000 – An ordinary man cannot even read this figure. Foreigners will read this as 1.84 trillion and Indians will say Rs 1.84 lakhs crores. We will be shocked to know that this is the record premium income of LIC last year. Premium means the amount collected from the policy holders. We should understand that this record collection is at a time when all the insurance companies in the world are facing a big blow due to Covid-19. For this very reason, LIC is number three among the strong international insurance brands.

During several visits to the Singhu and Tikri borders where farmers are protesting for the repeal of farm laws since 26th November 2020, every time it is more enthusing than the previous visit to watch the commitment and spirit among them. Staying in the tractor trolleys or makeshift hutments away from the families is not an easy task. In such situations anyone is prone to health problems, more so the elderly, women and children. Stress of staying away from their kith and kin is quite disturbing.