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With failed economic promises to misbegotten economic reforms, relentless communal polarization, the crushing of civil dissent and the destruction of citizen’s fundamental right to liberty, the nationalist (fascist) Union Government has tried everything in its quiver to shore up the image of PM as a superman of himself that he has tirelessly built over the last seven years. Yet the country has been witnessing crises ever since he tanked the economy with serial disasters like demonetization followed by GST and a disastrous tax cut of Rs.1.45 lakh crore for corporates in 2019, without consideration how the shortfall would be made up.

New Delhi: Head Coach Igor Stimac on Friday named a 25-member Indian Football squad for friendlies against Nepal.

New Delhi: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Friday said that owing to the pandemic situation, the competition calendar of 2020-21 has been brought forward to 2021-22.

New Delhi: Vishu Rathee, Tanu, and Nikita Chand scored emphatic victories over their rivals to move into the junior girls’ finals at the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai.

By 7 pm of August 26, 68 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses had been administered, said the Modi Government. Do we have to take it for gospel truth, especially when India doesn’t rely on vaccine mandates, unlike the USA, where vaccine mandates help ensure vaccine compliance? More so after August 23, when the FDA gave “full use approval” to the Pfizer vaccine – and the Biden administration made it compulsory for government employees to vaccinate, and US soldiers also.

The Supreme Court of India made two comments on policing in India on August 26 putting on record the two well known facts that the police administration across India are cosy to the politicians of the ruling establishments while filing flimsy charges against opposition leaders and keep hanging swords on their heads. One of comments was made in the case related to a state police and the other in a case related to the Centre’s CBI and ED. The comments showed how our police administrations suffer from the mother of all evils from which countless evils spring up through which a citizen of India struggles to get justice.

A sense of foreboding has taken hold of the Central Asian countries. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan were all part of the Soviet Union for close to seventy years until USSR crumbled.

The anti-colonial nationalism that informed the struggle for liberation in third world countries was, as is well-known, of an entirely different genre from the bourgeois nationalism that had emerged in Europe in the seventeenth century. There is a tendency in the West, including even among progressives, to treat all “nationalism” as a homogeneous and reactionary category. They treat even anti-colonial nationalism as if it is no different from European bourgeois nationalism, notwithstanding the several crucial differences between the two.

The Supreme Court’s observation on Wednesday that the two bench of judges headed by the Chief Justice of India N V Ramanna will be issuing a comprehensive order on the petitions challenging the use of the Israeli Pegasus spyware for snooping, is of special importance in influencing the political situation on the eve of the state assembly elections in 2022.

New Delhi: Hockey Team Chief Coach Graham Reid has disclosed that he has set some milestones while preparing the squad for the Asian Games, FIH Pro League, Commonwealth Games.