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It is rather unusual to see the government calmly watching the growing misery of the common man under the pressure of rising inflation, fuelled by increasing oil and gas prices, and shrinking jobs and income. It would be fundamentally wrong if the government continues to allow prices of petrol, diesel and gas for industrial and domestic use to go up to inflate its tax income just to cover part of its growing fiscal deficit.

On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its longevity. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok Sabha with the total strength of 543. Only one month ago, on May 21, Rajiv Gandhi was killed in the course of campaign for the 1991 Lok Sabha elections. Sonia Gandhi was in mourning and Rao was also acting as the Congress president.

New Delhi: Indian Men's and Women's Hockey Team coaches on Saturday promised better showing at the Tokyo Olympics and hoped that players will live up to the expectations of the millions of their fans back.

After two decades, United States (US) President Joe Biden has announced the end of the US’s military mission in Afghanistan by August 31. This decision was not unanticipated, even if the timing and extent of the drawdown were deliberated until the last minute. Even now, the details of US military assistance to Afghanistan and the presence of regional intelligence and counterterrorism assets remain uncertain.

You can take this Priyanka out of the Congress, but you cannot take the Congress out of this Priyanka! We’re talking of Priyanka Chaturvedi, now of the Shiv Sena, earlier very much a fixture in the Congress. Chaturvedi recently wrote a piece for media that is assuredly friendly to the Opposition and it became clear where Priyanka’s heart lies, for whom her bells toll.

Farmers’ agitation against the three controversial farm laws is being crushed by the government in numerous ways including clamping of sedition charges on them on the one hand, while their agitation is getting escalated on the other. If things go in this direction the nation will have to witness an ugly prospect soon. Since, it is a politico-legal issue, it cannot be settled by the judiciary alone. A time has come when all party meet may be explored as an option to prevent a flashpoint potentially devastating for the nation. The gravity of the situation is obvious in the recent occurrences, actions from, and the strategies adopted by the both sides – the government and the farmers.

It appears that the RSS sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat, is finding it difficult to enforce his writ on bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together by arguing that their DNA is the same because of common ancestry.

The stand taken by the Modi government in the Supreme Court that the ‘colonialist’ sedition can remain, but certain with safeguards, betrays the authoritarian traits of the government and its intention to use the draconian law whenever it feels threatened by dissent and adverse public opinion.

The 18-day monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 19 has given the anti-BJP opposition parties a big opportunity to take on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for its gross failure in protecting the lives and livelihoods of the millions of people who have been hit by the impact of the pandemic continuing in India since March 2020. The last seventeen months have witnessed not only huge job losses of the workers but also the erosion of democracy and rising trends of authoritarianism. The Indian nation was never in such a situation where, the people are charged with sedition for just expressing dissent.

The prime minister, Narendra Modi’s eulogy of the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath as visionary and efficient administration and attributing “unprecedented” success to him in tackling the Covid second wave and endorsing his handling of law and order, particularly crimes against women/ ought to be seen as portentous warnings.