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Rare are the people like P K Warrier, who have seen so many facet of life, achieved so much in life and lived over 100 years. He popularized Ayurveda, died in Kerala’s Kottayam a month after celebrating his 100th birthday on June 8. Decorated with India’s third and fourth highest civilian awards Padma Bhushan in 2010 and Padma Shri earlier, Warrier was a freedom fighter. He was a connoisseur of arts, an author and a teacher.

China has re-emerged as the biggest trading partner of India in 2020-21 outplaying USA, after a break of two years. Prior to these, China was also the leading trade partner for five years from 2013-14 to 2017-18. Notwithstanding, China loses primacy in trade in the post COVID 19. Structural change in India- China trade in pre and post COVID decodes the waning of significance of China. Eventually, during 2020-21, import declined from China and export increased. Nevertheless, even though export increased it does not denote spiral of growth in the future.

Just when the monsoon session of the Indian parliament was about to begin, the Pegasus scandal resurfaced and created a political row in the country, two years after it initially came to light. For record, Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-security and tech company NSO could take over the control of your mobile phone without your knowledge.

While Indians are stretching and splitting their hair to make out the inference of home minister Amit Shah’s suggestion “chronology ko samjhiye” (understand the chronology), the international media is agog with the information that it was Narendra Modi who during his first visit to Israel in 2017 had roped in NSO.

It was the ultimate comedy of errors that when information minister Ashwini Vaishnaw was defending the government in the Pegasus snooping case, media units were preparing to release a list of targeted persons, who curiously included himself. It can be safely assumed that Vaishnaw has lost his credibility for ever and will never be retrieved.

Called the greatest show on earth, the Olympic Games are celebration of human excellence, behaviour and endeavour. It is dream of every athlete on the planet to be take part in these games and bring laurels to his or her country.

Sports fans watching advertisements on Sony TV in which Bollywood super stars Amitabh Bachan, Akshay Kumar, IOC member Neeta Ambani, Union law minister (till recently Sports minister) Kiren Rijiju, Sports minister Anurag Thakur , industrialist Sajjan Jindal, Gen Bipin Rawat and other luminaries are exhorting Indian sportspersons taking part in the Tokyo Olympics to “Go for Gold".

Indian sages were aware of science. The formulation of four Varnas based social construct evolved by sage Manu five thousand years ago reflects their fears of increasing danger of pollution to humanity. A thousand years later the unscrupulous individuals introduced twists and turns to gain self benefits like retaining right of education to self and denying it to three other segments of society.

New Delhi: Indian men and Women's hockey team captains Manpreet Singh and Rani Rampaul have urged fans around the globe to support the teams and promised them a better showing at the Tokyo Olympics.

Peru’s electoral agony is finally over. The Marxist Pedro Castillo will take over as the new president of this Latin American nation on July 28 after the national electoral authorities dismissed all the legal challenges lodged by his right wing rival Ms. Keiko Fujimori on Sunday.