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The picture of the unprecedented setback to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the last one and half years of COVID-19 pandemic is indeed worrying, yet brighter future is still possible, for which the next 18 months are crucial, and during this time SDG action could be improved. The new flagship UN Sustainable Development Goals Report (SDGR) 2021 has indicated its possibility and said that countries must take ‘critical’ steps during this time of pandemic.

New Delhi: Ace golfer Udayan Mane has made the cut to become the second Indian in the 60-player field in the men’s golf event at Tokyo Olympics, after Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo announced his withdrawal from the quadrennial event.

Chile’s indigenous population is celebrating a historic victory after the election of a Mapuche woman as president of the country’s Constitutional Convention at its first session on Sunday.

Rafale, the fighter jet France made and India bought. The Modi Government could have chosen the UK’s Eurofighter, but it plumbed for Rafale. Why? There’s a whiff of a kickback, says former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who can’t let go of the thought; more like he wouldn’t let go of the thought. ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’, he coined in 2018, and it became common talk before the 2019 general elections. No prizes for guessing who ‘chowkidar’ was? Everybody knew, especially those who attended Rahul Gandhi’s rallies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used to fondly refer to himself as ‘Chowkidar’, and Rahul Gandhi used to loudly ask people to repeat after him ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’.

All of us want the pandemic to be over. We all want a coherent post-pandemic world. But what really the future holds for us?

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This was a course of action the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government should have avoided. Politics of revenge pays neither in the short term nor in the long term.

Who is the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat trying to fool? His decrying the culture of lynching of the Muslims by the Hindutva vigilantes or his observation that all Indians share the same DNA, cannot be differentiated on basis of worship must not be construed as his change of heart or RSS, the progeny of Hitler’s fascist organisation divorcing its politics of Muslim bashing and smashing the ideology of secularism and pluralism.

Medicine is a passion not a profession. Preventing disease and treating the patients gives immense pleasure to a doctor. A person dedicated to the cause is beyond the need for praises. However recognition of medical professional’s work from the mouth of the head of the government is a different matter. The Prime Minister very well utilized the art of using words to praise the doctors on July 1 the day dedicated to the memory of Dr B C Roy, a physician, educationist, philanthropist, freedom fighter and statesman who served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the Congress government.

Stan Swami died in judicial custody. He was 84 years of age and ailing with several diseases including Parkinson’s. National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested him nine months ago in October 2020 on terror charges, yet unfounded, under (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). In February, a forensic evidence emerged that found the letters forming the very basis of the case were in fact put in the laptop of a detenue Rona Wilson before he was arrested. Prosecution case became doubtful after the evidence, but barring 81 year old poet Varavara Rao, none of the 16 detenues have reportedly been granted bail. Trial is yet to start because NIA failed to submit all evidences and chargesheet.

New Delhi: Ace boxer MC Mary Kom and hockey team Captain Manpreet Singh were on Monday named flag bearers of the Indian contingent at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on 23rd July.