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In the turbulent days which the country is passing through, the dynamics of political developments would take swift turns and tides. In the politics of any country, there must be the reflection of agonies and aspirations of people. The rightward shift in India's life since the ascendance of RSS-BJP rule has intensified the sufferings of the people. There have been pouring of promises by Narendra Modi but none of them were meant for the welfare of people. In the garb of sab ka saath sab ka vikas they were paving the way for the corporates, both domestic and foreign to loot the country.

New Delhi: Promising youngster Muskan displayed her brilliant form and blanked Yelyanur Turganova to storm into the final on the fifth day of the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai.

The first caste census in India was done with the first ever census conducted in 1901 under Lord Risley as the Commissioner of Census of India which was discontinued after the Census 1931 due to opposition of the leaders of the Freedom Movement of India, triggered especially after Dr B R Ambedkar exposed the falsity of the very basis on which castes were enumerated. How it comes now that large number of our politicians are finding caste census beneficial for the country which was found harmful by the founding forefathers of the Independent India?

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Union Cabinet minister Narayan Rane! It requires constant up and down eye movement to keep both of them in one frame. That’s because if Uddhav Thackeray is reed thin and tall, Narayan Rane is rock stout, and short! So much so, Shiv Sainiks take huge pleasure trolling Rane’s attempts to reach for the skies!

BHOPAL: Sangh Parivar and leaders and spokesmen of its affiliates never miss any opportunity to malign Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. The latest in their malicious campaign is an article written by Rakesh Sinha, BJP member of Rajya Sabha. In his article published in Indian Express (August `14) Sinha claims that "Despite the unbounded reverence for Mahatma Gandhi the masses rejected his silence on the hanging of Bhagat Singh."

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, who formed the BJP’s government in the state in 1991, has passed away. He was also governor of Rajasthan. He was accused of criminal conspiracy in the Babri Masjid demolition case for it was during his tenure as CM that the 16th century mosque was demolished.

The Industrial Relations Code (IRC) has unnecessarily sought to legislate on “matters” for negotiations between negotiating union/negotiating council (NU/NC) and employers [Section 14(1)]. Like in the past, it should have been left to the parties to determine depending on the empirical realities facing them at various points of time.

Thirty years ago, on August 24 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and resigned from his role as general secretary.

The National Monetisaton Pipeline might well turn out to be another pipedream turning sour, just as Modi’s demonetisation did, producing a result that was exactly the opposite of what was promised. Demonetisation was arguably more thoughtless and arbitrary, lacking any theoretical framework, a kind of midnight madness. The monetisation, however, has an overkill of theory. It sounds very well on paper as it is couched in fancy jargons that the Niti Aayog bureaucrats are known to revel in dishing out. That is as far comparisons go. But the end result might be the same: unmitigated disaster for the nation.

With Narendra Modi and his government losing the control on the political narrative and his charisma on sustained decline owing primarily to the nine month old farmers’ satyagrah, the longest movement in Independent India, the RSS has once again become active to break the agitation. Adopting the old tried machination while its cadres and supporters have approached the Supreme Court afresh to pass an order to vacate the agitation sites of the agitators, it has deployed its Bharatiya Kisan Sangh to resort to friendly fight with the Modi government demanding minimum support price.