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New Delhi: "Nothing is Impossible," proved paddler Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel who won the first-ever Paralympic medal – a Silver - in Table Tennis.

New Delhi: Rohit Chamoli defeated Mongolia’s Otgonbayar Tuvshinzaya to win India's first gold medal at the 2021 ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai on Sunday.

New Delh: Bishwamitra Chongtham (51kg), Vishvanath Suresh (48 Kg) Jaydeep Rawat (71 Kg) chalked out contrasting victories to make it to the finals at ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Muttil tree-felling case, which happened during the last term of the Pinarayi Vijayan Government, continues to haunt the second Pinarayi regime.

Come September there will be a dismantling of Hindutva, which happens to be different from Hinduism. Wait, it is ‘Global Hindutva’ they are after; 'they' meaning people wanting to cut the throat of the RSS/BJP's book of Hindutva and leave in its wake the purest of pure Hinduism. Hindus should be happy and awfully grateful to these kind folks for this kind favour.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has intervened to get liberal rules for drones with a claim to leverage India’s strengths in innovation, technology and engineering to make India a drone hub. This romantic idea has immediately caught the imagination of the dreamers within and outside the government. They, including the aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, immediately started propagating that the move will pave the way for air taxis soon in the Indian sky. What they don’t talk, and even not thoroughly discussed before changing the rules, are the inherent dangers is such hasty decisions.

The state government of Maharashtra decided that this year too they would not grant permission for ‘Dahi Handi’ celebration during Janmashtami on 30 August. This is the second consecutive year that the immensely popular Dahi Handi celebration has been cancelled owing to the pandemic.

There is euphoria over India achieving one crore Covid vaccinations on a single day, the first time ever the country has achieved the feat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described it in a tweet as ‘momentous’, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya proudly made the announcement about the achievement. Everyone is patting on the back of everyone else.

The Regime changes are capricious events, since there are many variables in play. It explains their mystique. The latest one in Afghanistan, third in the past two decades, is no exception. The Mujahideen takeover in 1992 was a preordained event choreographed by the United States, which slipped out of its hands. The 1996 Taliban takeover was like a slow-motion talkie with Ahmad Shah Massoud simply disappearing from Kabul without a fight. August 15’s dramatic developments lead to a sense of deja vu.

Whatever the impending regime change in Afghanistan may mean to India, the country should accept the reality soon and join China, Russia, Pakistan and the UK, among others, to support the political change in Afghanistan. The India-Afghanistan relations are over 1,000 years old. Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni invaded India 17 times between 1000 and 1027 AD. Nearly all former Islamic rulers of India originated from Afghanistan. India will make a big mistake if it trusts the USA on its immediate Afghanistan policy. A regime change in Afghanistan is no guarantee for peace. Name an Islamic rebel group which is not present in Afghanistan. The state has lived with several terrorist groups, including ISIS (Khorasan) that claimed responsibility for the latest deadly attack outside Kabul airport. The attack came as the US forces were in the process of withdrawing from the country following the Taliban's takeover.