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When a Russian-led military force intervened earlier this month, it did more than help Kazakh President Qasym-Johart Toqayev restore and strengthen his grip on power following days of protest and violent clashes with security forces.

A rare combination of virtuosity and expression, grace and control Birju Maharaj, who became synonymous with Kathak, passed away in Delhi at the age of 83. He suffered from kidney ailments and has been on dialysis for some months. He died from sudden heart attack.

Social scientists are busy trying to analyse the reasons for the recent large scale desertion of senior BJP ministers and legislators and subsequently going back to the SP. While some look at it reappearing of the old syndrome, a large section of experts and scholars nevertheless strongly feel that it symbolises the protest of the dalits and non-yadav OBCs against the hegemonistic politics of RSS and BJP.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and its top most leader Narendra Modi hawk antigens against dynastic rule and political dynasties. In fact, there cannot be more dynasty-hurt people than those with the mark of the RSS parivaar on their foreheads. The BJP, while it opposes “family rule”, embraces rogue members of the ruling dynasties of prominent opposition parties just so that it can wreck those parties and rule.

There comes a time when the established order seems ripe for a change. In Indian cricket, the time has come for that obviously. The ruling monarch of Indian cricket for the past so many years, has slid past in two formats already and in the third he has sensed the straws in the wind and has given up.

The damage to UAE oil facilities in the drone attack by Houthi rebels is not very significant in terms of losses, but it is adding to regional tensions, causing supply disruption fears.

Corbevax the vaccine for COVID-19 is a new hope. It is cheapest and hence most affordable, paving the way for equitable supply of the same to the have-nots of the world. When it headed from USA to India, newspapers like the Washington Post of the USA, and the Guardian of the UK carried articles, and now it has been approved by India at the fag-end of December for emergency use, and the Indian Company Biological-E would be producing it. It is here India has a big role to play without caring for the profit making lobbies who might not want such a cheap option available to the people. Equitable and affordable vaccine to all across the world must be secured now, since it may rescue the world.

Successive Union Governments have taken several administrative and legal measures to empower, secure women and minimize crimes against them. But unfortunately, crimes against women have been increasing year on year except in 2020 when such crimes came down by 8.3 per cent due to lockdown and massive job losses, according to the National Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB). This indicates that government is not honest about protection of women and maintaining a façade of propaganda to hoodwink the people despite 39 laws having been enacted to empower women of India during the last two centuries. Reasons sited for ever increasing such crimes are patriarchy, misogyny, rampant discrimination against women, their commoditization, objectification and, above all, pervasive rampant corruption and politicization of police and policing as per experts.

Chennai: Over 100 entrants including group of promising young racers, will be seen in action in the third round of the Indian National Car Racing Championship at the MMRT circuit here on Thursday, with Covid-19 safety protocols in place.

LUCKNOW: At a time when all political parties are offering freebies in their election promises, BJP is also banking on beneficiaries known labharthis from various schemes of central and states government to win the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh BJP feels that major chunk of beneficiaries cut across caste and religious lines would vote for the ruling party.