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The results of the assembly elections to the five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – have shown that the Grand Old Party the Congress is on the decline. The Party has not only lost its ruling state Punjab miserably to the Aam Admi Party (AAP) but also done badly in the two states Goa and Manipur compared to the 2017 elections when the Party emerged as the largest group. In Uttarakhand, the Party has improved a bit in terms of seats but the BJP convincingly retained the state .In Uttar Pradesh, nobody expected any Congress miracle, but even with the hype generated by Priyanka Gandhi in the poll campaign, the Party ended with a miniscule tally of 2 to 3 out of 403 seats compared to 7 in last assembly elections.

New Delhi: Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain and Asian Championships bronze medalist Nikhat Zareen will spearhead 11-member Indian challenge at the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship to be held in Istanbul from May 6-21.

New Delhi: Nivedita Karki and Tamanna registered contrasting victories to move into the finals of their respective categorizes while Renu ended her campaign with a bronze medal at the Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday.

Forgetfulness is bliss. Of all faculties, the ability to forget is the basis of human progress, whether for an individual, institution, or a nation. It is the fountainhead of forgiveness, perhaps the greatest of all virtues. And Indians are particularly endowed with it, whether it is due to their obsession with spirituality, passed down from generation to generation, or due to sheer inertia to act differently, euphemistically called tolerance. Nobody knows this as well as prime minister Narendra Modi, who has experienced the sweetness of this virtue time and again.

Just over two years ago, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Asif Saeed Khosa told a press conference of women judges that they should not conduct themselves in court like their male counterparts. At that time, Pakistan had five women judges across its five High Courts.

I was in Byculla Jail, Mumbai, between February 2020 and December 2021. Prior to that, in Yerwada Jail, where I was lodged between November 2018 to February 2020, I had given an application to be permitted to help with legal aid, but that was refused, possibly since I and my co-accused Professor Shoma Sen, were lodged in separate cells in the Phansi Yard. We were not supposed to communicate with any others in the jail. But in Byculla Jail, we were in the barracks, and Byculla is an undertrial jail. Incidentally, the latest report on ‘Women In Prisons’ (2018) by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development states that 66.8 per cent of all women prisoners are undertrials.

Plight of Anganwadi workers continues across the country due to a range of issues including the very low amount of honourariums they are getting and the ever rising workload, especially after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic after March 2020. It is therefore the agitation of Anganwadi workers and helpers in Delhi will have rippling effect across India.

That the students from Sumy have been evacuated and are on way to western Ukraine is a matter of great satisfaction not just for the family but for the country as a whole. Better late than never; finally the Indian government woke up and took effective steps to plan this evacuation. War between Russia and Ukraine is threatening the lives of innocent citizens and destruction of resources. The danger of use of nuclear weapons in case of escalation of war cannot be ruled out.

Unlike Hitler's Panzer blitzkrieg against France/Benelux in May 1940, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has not been a pushover. Putin's battle tanks have not taken Kiev or decapitated the Zelenskyy's government.

"I will leave Delhi after April and return to live in Thiruvananthapuram," Congress “stalwart” AK Antony told a newspaper and people suddenly realized that this man was still around, ruminating in the greens of Lutyen’s Delhi. Nobody will miss Antony after he leaves, like nobody missed him in the eight years since Modi unseated UPA-II. AK Antony is in many ways like the Congress has been of late—there, but not there! And at 81, he cannot be anything but a "stalwart."