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It is good that the Chief Justice of India N V Ramana has agreed to take up for hearing a pending petition challenging the Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018 .The 20th tranche of electoral bonds opened on April 1 this year and it will continue till April 10.It would have been better if the Supreme Court would have heard the plea before this in the interests of ensuring a level playing field in political funding and establishing transparency, but this has not been given that priority yet. It will now be in the best interests of the democracy if the petition is heard as early as possible. After the current sale of bonds, no further issue should be allowed.

It’s come to where it does not matter if the slip is showing. The fiery Shiv Sena seems to be reconciled to paralysis, incapable of protecting its own from the trepidations of CBI and ED. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is as if nowhere in the picture. The question is shouldn’t the Shiv Sena return to the guerrilla tactics of Shivaji Maharaj, or has Modi succeeded in remapping the Shiv Sena’s dna, replacing fiery missal-pao with vanilla ice cream, protest with acquiescence?

The clawing back to the exchange rate of the Russian rouble to the US dollar in the recent days is not too much of a mystery. It is simply because there is no demand for the US green back from the holders of the Russian rouble. Simply speaking, the Russians are not demanding any US dollar for their purchases or the government of that country is not seeking that currency for meeting its own requirements or for funding essential imports.

Kozhikode: Amlan Borgohain (Assam) setup a new 200m National Record by clocking 20.52 seconds on a rain-hit final day in the 25th AFI National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships in the C H Muhammed Koya Stadium here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Ashish Kumar, Monika, Govind Sahani and Varinder Singh put up dominating performances to enter the entered the finals of the Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament in Phuket on Wednesday.

Gurugram: The team of Aadil Bedi, Ankur Chadha and Hitaashee Bakshi won the inaugural Ballantine’s Golf Championship – Mixed Pro Challenge at the pristine DLF Golf and Country Club here on Wednesday.

After the brand new crypto taxes came into effect on April 1, the digital asset exchanges serving Indian market have reported a massive drop in transaction volume and domain traffic. As per a research and rating firm, the fall in transaction volume in the first two days of the trading since the new taxes kicked in has been in the range of 15 to 55 percent. These exchanges have also seen a fall in traffic by 40 percent.

Even as the new COVID-19 infections are declining and countries across the world are withdrawing the curbs they had imposed, including the mandatory requirement of wearing mask and physical distancing, a latest IMF working paper says that the pandemic is not over, and the health and economic losses continue to grow.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav who took over as Leader of the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Assembly after the recent state assembly elections, is now in an action mode monitoring every step of Yogi government and taking decision accordingly. Soon after taking over as Leader of Opposition, Akhilesh Yadav said that "we are taking pledge that the goal of the Samajwadi Party is to fight for the issues of people".

In the fight for the pole position among regional outfits, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) led by Mr Arvind Kejriwal has opened up a sizable lead over early front runner Trinamool Congress (TMC). What’s worse for TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, present trends do not favour her party. The energetic Chief Minister of Bengal is getting increasingly bogged down in a quagmire of bruising inquiries and legal battles against myriad central crime -investigating agencies.