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For want of a better description, they’re the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA opposition’. The goal is to transform to the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA ruling alliance’. They have to corner 273 Lok Sabha seats in 2024, what a bright old spark, called a ‘journalist’, says is ‘half of half’ of the total Lok Sabha, the tipping point to flip Narendra Modi off the scales.

Refusal of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to keep his promises made to Chirag Paswan, son of late Ram Vilas Paswan and insulting him in full public view at the insistence of the Nitish Kumar and a section of Bihar BJP leaders is leading to a massive churning in the state politics. Possibilities of fall of the NDA government in Bihar headed by Nitish Kumar is also not being ruled out.

With announcement of some new measures to mitigate the destruction caused by the second wave of COVID-19, the size of the assurance for small businesses including the MSMEs and needy households till date has swelled to Rs 6.3 lakh crore, which is indeed an impressive figure, a treat for the ears, but cannot provide the much desired relief and stimulus to the devastated economy.

New Delhi: For forward Udita, a handball player who switched to Hockey only in 2016, getting selected in the 16-member Indian Women's Hockey Tokyo Olympic squad is a dream come true. Now she along with team mates is all geared up to perform well in the Games.

New Delhi: Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat, shot to glory and gold as she claimed 25M Pistol title piping Rio Olympic winner Anna Korakaki (Greece) to earn India the first yellow medal in the ISSF Shooting World Cup in Osijek, Croatia on Monday.

The rainbow-emblazoned corporate swag has been ordered, the gay and lesbian employees dispatched to New York. The floats are all designed and constructed, ready to roll down Fifth Avenue—colorful billboards advertising just how LGBT friendly T-Mobile, MasterCard, TD Bank, Delta Air Lines, and other sponsors are these days.

It rarely happens in ordinary bail matters that within 72 hours of a court order, numerous aspects related to it get extensively argued at every level of the judiciary. In the recent instance of three students arrested in connection with the violence that broke out in northeast Delhi in February 2020, after a nudge from the High Court, the trial court prepared their release warrants and soon completed all other legal bail-related formalities in quick time.

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India have been dying for a long time even before the outbreak of COVID-19 resulting in large number of job losses. The lockdown announced on March 24, 2020 and the containment measures aggravated the situation further. Announcement of government support by Modi government failed to stem the rot. The second wave of COVID-19 beginning from February 2021 peaking up in May brought further deterioration. About 15 lakh jobs were lost in a single month of May chiefly due to shutting down of MSMEs or scaling down of their operation. We have yet again some further announcement of support by the government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), while last years’ announcements are yet hardly half-implemented, and the fate of the present announcements are buried in future.

On June 26, the dayafter Indira Gandhi had imposed emergency 46 years ago, the farmers’ movement entered into its 8th month of survival. Though yesterday Narendra Modi took to twits to recollect the tyrannies “he had to face” during the Emergency days, he did not mention about his resolve to destroy democracy and smash the democratic institutions in the country. His recurrent reference to imposition of emergency however forcefully threw open a question that why he was averse to respect the democratic aspirations of the crores of farmers and sit across with them to listen to their arguments for scraping of the three black farm laws. Indira Gandhi used emergency not to listen to the democratic voices, while Modi in a shrewd manner used the state machinery to deny the farmers of their rights.

The BJP’s “walk back” on Kashmir – to use a polite term for “retreat – must have made it appreciate the difficulty of implementing a religion-based agenda in a democracy.