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TOP PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS FOR RS 50 LAKH PRIZE MONEY PGTI PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

Harpal Singh Bedi - 2021-09-07 14:16
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.

THREE YEARS AFTER SCRAPPING OF SECTION 377 OF IPC BY SUPREME COURT

SOME GAINS BUT MORE TASKS LIKE SAME SEX MARRIAGE ARE STILL TO BE DONE
Anand Grover - 2021-09-07 11:08
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.

PRESIDENT CASTILLO IS FACING TOUGH CHALLENGES FROM RIGHT IN PERU

NEW CABINET DETERMINED TO IMPLEMENT LEFT WING AGENDA FOR REFORM
Adrián Lerner Matteo Stiglich - 2021-09-07 11:05
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.

BENGAL BJP DIVIDED ON FINAL STRATEGY TO COMBAT MAMATA IN BY POLL

A SECTION OF LEADERSHIP STILL FAVOURS GOING TO COURT AGAINST EC DECISIONS
Arun Srivastava - 2021-09-07 11:01
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.

POWER STRUGGLE AMONG DIFFERING GROUPS OF TALIBANI IS IN FULL FORCE

PAKISTAN ISI CHIEF DESPERATELY TRYING TO PROTECT PROTEGES IN KABUL
Sankar Ray - 2021-09-07 09:57
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.

BRINGING CHILDREN BACK TO ECUCATION TOUGHER THAN EXPECTED

SCHOOL SURVEY IS JUST AN INDICATION OF THE CHALLENGE AHEAD
Gyan Pathak - 2021-09-07 09:53
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.

BHARAT’S KISANS HAVE NOW ONE AGENDA: BJP HATAO DESH BACHAO

SEPTEMBER 27 BANDH CALL IS AN OMINOUS SIGNAL FOR MODI GOVERNMENT
Sushil Kutty - 2021-09-07 09:49
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.

THE BIG BJP DILEMMA OVER INTRODUCING CASTE CENSUS IN DIVIDED COUNTRY

SAFFRONS ARE WARY THAT THIS WILL LEAD TO OTHER POPULAR DEMANDS
Kalyani Shankar - 2021-09-07 09:46
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.