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Punjab cannot be communally ‘dhruvikaraned’ like Uttar Pradesh can be. The Sikh and the Hindu and the Muslim of Punjab have their own calculations and affiliations but they aren’t at each other’s throats. Faced with such odds, what can political parties do? How about raising doubts over who admires and loves the Punjabi (Sikh?) more­—the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi? Polarization along this line was already being tested when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security was breached, so to say, and he was taught a lesson by his political foes, who have had enough of him these last seven plus years and could do with a break, a well-deserved one at that.

With the third wave of COVID-19 rising exponentially across India reaching daily new infection over 1.17 lakh with positivity rate of 7.74, many stringent curbs have been imposed on various economic activities, which are likely to be made more stringent within few days. Consequently, the already deteriorating labour market is likely to deteriorate further, and domestic workers and daily wagers would suffer the most as we have already experienced during the first and second waves of the pandemic.

In May, 2021, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar had announced that Vaccination would be completed by December, 2021. But the fact is that by December 31, 2021 only 63 per cent of adult population could be fully vaccinated. While the monthly average vaccination for September was around 8.1 million doses a day, it fell to 5.4 million in October and 5.7 million in November. A clear sign of loss of tempo and waste of valuable time in pandemic control with missed targets.

New Delhi: Top golfers will be seen in action in the $500,000 at the DGC Open to be held from March 24-27 here at Delhi Golf Club.

New Delhi: Taking no chances in view of the drastic rise in the Covid cases, mostly owing to the Omicron variant. The Sports Authority of India on Wednesday issued fresh Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to deal with the situation.

New Delhi: Title contenders and former champions Punjab, West Bengal and Kerala have been clubbed in Group A for the 75th edition of the Hero Santosh Trophy to be held in Kerala from February 20.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been rudely reminded that the farmers’ protests are far from over, Modi’s unilateral surrender notwithstanding—it did not make a dent on the farmers’ spirits. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alluded to as much when asserting that but for Covid-19 quarantine rules, he would have been at Modi's side on the flyover.

By the morning of January 6, it was clear that lives and livelihoods in India are at greater risks from the third wave of COVID-19 than many among us believed. Total daily reported cases were about 91 thousand with sharp spike of over 56 per cent new infections a day and 325 deaths. Infection from Omicron variant stands at only 2630, which is also spreading fast.

It is not wanderlust that drives people to places, these days it is replaced by hunger, a force that cannot be staved off. Some time back, the number of migratory labour, retrenched, pushed out, had shocked us with their growing number as thousands of men and women, children and the old, had walked through the long, bumpy stretches to arrive at, oh no, not at the green pastures of their dreams, but somewhere with bread. The spectre of hunger still haunts, taking its toll. Jobs are getting fewer every day. Openings are limited, choices scant, and never according to one’s skills. One could have done business management and apply for a gardener’s job or if one has done a doctorate, one can be a peon in a school. System refuses to open up for those skilled for their expertise, it prefers to let them waste.

The Latin American politics has entered a decisive phase in 2022 as the various shades of Left have jointly mounted renewed attacks against the pro-right neo liberal policies of the two ruling governments in Colombia and Brazil which are going for Presidential polls in the year. The utter misgovernance in these two countries has led to massive protests and demonstrations in the recent months and these are going to have impact in favour of the left wing presidential candidates in these two poll bound countries who are already ahead in the latest opinion polls.