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In Assam the illegal smuggling of cows will get more difficult: The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled State Government has decided to ban the transporting of cattle to any district that shares the international border with Bangladesh. This is the main feature of the new Cow Protection Bill whose details have just been announced by Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The people of Kerala woke up to this Sunday soaked with blood. The recrudescence of murder politics – two killings in 12 hours – has given a rude jolt to the state.

United States President Joe Biden has warned of a “winter of death.” Mad at unvaccinated Americans, Biden said many of them “will soon overwhelm” hospitals and there will be “a winter of severe illness and death.” Biden’s “direct message to the American people” didn’t seem to have any effect on the conservatives among Americans. Greg Gutfield, a Fox TV anchor, mocked Biden and said it was time for some Americans to “grow stones”, his way of being direct with Joe Biden.

Completion of two years of anti-CAA movement by protesters at Shaheenbagh on December 15, 2019, which the March 24, 2020 nationwide lockdown to contain COVID-19 outbreak forced to an end, could not erase the anti-CAA sentiment among the people. Rather, the movement like this is showing signs of resurrection across India. Protests were organized to mark the second anniversary across the country. Moreover, as the election to the legislative assembly of Uttar Pradesh is approaching, which is due in early next year, politics hots up with communal frenzy around CAA-NRC-NPR, threatening turning the whole state into Shaheenbaghs.

Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric won on Sunday the Presidential elections by getting 55.8 per cent of the votes as against 44.1 per cent received by the extreme right candidate Anronio Kast, thereby giving a major boost to the left and progressive forces in Latin America.

Jamshedpur: On a day of dramatic twists, Pune based Udayan Mane returned a gritty last round of three-under 69 to clinch the PGTI’s season-ending TATA Steel Tour Championship by one-shot here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Playing an all out attacking game, India outplayed Japan 6-0 in the Hero Asian Hockey Champions Trophy in Dhaka (Bangladesh) on Sunday.

Jamshedpur: Shubhankar Sharma set the Golmuri Golf Course ablaze with a nine-under, 63 that catapulted him into the joint lead along with Udayan Mane, who returned a fighting 67, in round three of the Rs. 1.5 crore TATA Steel Tour Championship here on Saturday.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee that studied the personal data protection bill, introduced two years ago, has for all practical purposes endorsed the bill’s draconian features, while shedding copious tears about the sanctity of privacy. The bill in a way takes away the fundamental right of the citizen to privacy and puts it in the hands of the government. As such, there will be two orders with regard to privacy, one which is applicable to everything other than the domain of the government and the other for the government. And in the process, puts the onus of enforcing the fundamental right to privacy with the government which is often the violator rather than the protector of fundamental rights.

“How can we expect polls to be impartial?” asked Mallikarjuna Kharge, Congress Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Rightly, his question is for the Election Commission, but the EC no longer has the courage—not under this dispensation which has been chipping away at the democratic edifice of the Republic with a vengeance.