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Panchkula: Top professionals including Olympian Udayan Mane, defending champion Akshay Sharma, Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, and Manu Gandas (winner on the PGTI last week) will be seen in action in the Rs 50-lakh prize money PGTI Players Championship scheduled at Panchkula Golf Club from September 8 – 11.

New Delhi: Archer Harvinder Singh is still in a daze because the feeling that he is now a Paralympic medallist was slowly sinking in.

September 6, Monday was the 3rd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Navtej Johar, holding that sexual acts between consenting adults in private does not attract section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). It is also 20 years after the Naz Foundation challenged the constitutional validity of Section 377, which we won in 2009. This long journey has been a roller coaster ride.

The newly elected left wing President of Peru Pedro Castillo is facing tough challenges from the right as also the corporate media in implementing his pro-people agenda.The Marxist leader gave an unconventional speech in his swearing in ceremony on July 28 this year reminding the nation that he belonged to the deprived and he would look after the interests of the indigenous people with all earnestness during his tenure in presidency. But as the President has started taking action on his promises, the vested interests from the urban areas, are up against him and his just formed cabinet of ministers.

Notwithstanding the subjective conditions strongly impeding the BJP’s political interest in allowing holding of the by polls in the state, the announcement of the election commission to hold the by elections for facilitating Mamata Banerjee to get elected to assembly has been quite significant and has come as a severe shock to the state BJP leaders.

The prompt air-dash by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence director-general,GeneralFaiz Hameed to Kabul on Sunday immediately after the announcement by Ameerul Momineen Sheikh Hibatullah Akhunzada, supreme commander of the Taliban on the formation of the government of new Emirate of Afghanistan , naming Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as Raees-e-Jamhoor, or raees-ul-wazara head state- carried a hint that the process of formation of new power centre will be far from being smooth.

As the schools in India have started opening slowly, we have been coming face to face with the reality of the extent of damage that the closure of schools has brought to our children. It was really catastrophic beyond our comprehension, as the latest Schoolchildren’s Online and Offline Learning (SCHOOL) Survey indicates. Presently, 28 per cent children have just stopped studying, another 45 per cent have lost their capability to read even more than a few words, and 75.5 per cent children’s reading abilities have declined. Then nation in finding the task of bringing children back to education tougher than expected.

India’s farmers are not in the mood to fold up their more than nine month agitation, which has acquired a larger purpose – the ouster of Narendra Modi from ‘Dilli’s gaddi’. Enough of the cat-footing, and the street skirmishes, the time’s now come to galvanise the Opposition with more such ‘kisan mahapanchayats’ across the country. The September 5 Muzaffarnagar ‘kisan mahapanchayat’ was followed by one in Karnal, Haryana, on September 7.

Is there a need for caste census? Will it give the right kind of data on different castes in the country or open up Pandora's box? Will it end up tearing the social fabric as it did in 1990 when the then prime minister V.P. Singh decided to implement the Mandal Commission report? Will caste census perpetuate caste? These are some of the questions which need answers when there is a chorus to include the caste census in the next year's decadal census. There are powerful pro and anti lobbies for the caste census.

New Delhi: Former World champion captain Viswanathan Anand will lead a star-studded squad to defend its Online Chess Olympiad crown, which gets underway worldwide late on Monday.