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The very mention of Pakistan brings up the image of a country infested with religious fanatics, fundamentalists, terrorists where state actors such as ISI and Pakistan military provide support to these non-state entities. No prime minister in Pakistan has ever completed a full five-year term. That’s the kind of political instability in this country of 22 crore people.

While I have been uber-bullish on Brent crude and seven sister oil and gas supermajors ever since last summer, I never imagined the sheer scale of the supply shock that the global wet barrel market endured after President Biden imposed sanctions on Russian energy exports to punish Putin for his brutal invasion of Ukraine on February 24th.

Gurugram: Hitaashee Bakshi became the second player to win multiple titles this season as she claimed the sixth leg of the 2022 Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Golden Greens Golf & Resorts on Friday.

New Delhi: Former Commonwealth Champion M R Lalith Babu nosed ahead of the field defeating young International Master Shahil Dey in the fifth round of the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament here on Friday.

New Delhi: Veer Ahlawat, fired a flawless 67 to take a two-shot lead at the halfway stage at a total of nine-under 135 in the $500,000 DGC Open at the Delhi Golf Club here on Friday.

Law performs both a normative function and a descriptive function. Criminal law constitutes offences which are punishable with imprisonment and/or fine. The law of rape is normatively defined in Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as being a sexual act performed on a woman against her will, or without her consent. Hence, a normative element of the offence is the absence of ‘consent’ to the sexual act, defined as “unequivocal voluntary agreement when the woman by words, gestures or any form of verbal or non-verbal communication, communicates willingness to participate in the specific sexual act.” To this norm, there is an exception which is commonly known as the “marital rape exception”:

The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia. Its objective was to prevent Russia and western Europe from coming closer, which would have occurred because of the latter’s dependence on the former for energy; it is even reported that to keep hostilities going between Russia and Ukraine, it sabotaged an agreement between the two, that had been witnessed by France and Germany.

Four years ago in March 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while chairing the “Delhi End TB Summit” had said about ending TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the TB-related SDG target by 2030. Now End World TB Day March 2022 has provided the occasion to see how far – and to what degree – India has progressed. India TB report 2022 released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on this occasion has however disheartened by telling us that 2021 witnessed a 19 per cent increase from the previous year in TB patients’ notification to reach 19,33,381 from 16,28,161 in 2020. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya has still reiterated to free the country from tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, but is contrary to evidence.

New Delhi: Talented mid fielder and captain Salima Tete on Friday promised better showing by India in the FIH Junior Women's Hockey World Cup saying “our aim is to finish on the podium."

Kohima: Parasappa Mahadevappa Hajilol and Sonika will face a tough challenge when they step up to defend their men and women’s crowns respectively in the 56th National Cross-Country Championships here on Saturday.