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Every orator, whether addressing a huge political meeting or a small audience attending the social seminar, has to have ability to read responses that the body language reflects from audiences. It becomes more difficult for political leaders addressing huge crowd in the sprawling audiences. Indira Gandhi did not extend her address for more than 12 minutes as she believed span of masses does not extend beyond four minutes. Effective orator would deliver his or her message only when the body language of audience reflects fuller attention. Efficient leaders do not deliver their preconceived notions to their audiences but read the character of the majority in their audience. Their use of word to convey on future - “bhavi, bhavishya, mustakbil or aanewale din” - tells of their reading of the character and kind of people in front of them and accordingly change the language of their address. The wordings of slogans raised are also predetermined. The makeup of slogan in every election rally of the BJP commander Narendra Modi in both the 2014 and the 2019 election was to seek votes for the Modi government and not for the party government.

New Delhi: The trio of Kirti Gupta, Manisha Keer and Rajeshwari Kumari earned country a silver as India went down 4-6 to Russia in the final of Women's trap team event on the concluding day of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun stage, in Cairo, Egypt.

Bambolim, Goa: NorthEast United have been on a fairy tale run in the seventh edition of the Hero Indian Super League. Defying all odds, they have silenced critics, who had written them off after their mid-season slump. But then came Khalid Jamil, who produced a stunning turnaround to lead them to just their second playoffs.

New Delhi: Vikas Krishan Yadav (69kg) outpunched the London Olympic Games bronze medallist Vicenzo Mangiacapre and led six-Indian pugilists in the semi-finals on the third day at the Boxam International Tournament in Castellon, Spain.

New Delhi: Bhaichung Bhutia Football Schools Residential Academy, will hold talent-hunt trials at Delhi NCR as well as Chandigarh this Sunday to select players for admission in the academy at a nominal fee, where they will be provided CBSE schooling along with football coaching from licensed coaches via the integrated training program.

— Things worked out quite differently than many in the media said they would at the congress of the LINKE, Germany’s left-wing party. The Party Congress showed big unity with determination to defend the interests of the working class and other common sections for building a stronger inclusive German economy. Germany is going for national elections on September 26 this year.

Recently, the government notified the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 through which it seeks to control rather than regulate publishers of news/current affairs content and online curated content (including over-the-top platforms). The Rules also provide for due diligence mechanisms for social media intermediaries, failing which they would be penalised. Both OTTs and digital news media will have to inform the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting about the details of their entity and publish periodic compliance reports every month.

The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi being trolled and sneers being inflicted on him in abundance for his juxtaposing the emergency with breaking down of the democratic institutions during the Narendra Modi Raj has not come as a surprise.

Despite uptick in the growth rate of the country’s economy in the October-December quarter of the present fiscal, the unemployment rate continues to go up and the jobs in the organised sector are shrinking. The most affected are the new entrants, especially the young and the women. The 2021-22 budget proposals have made no impact on the deteriorating job market in the country, though the economy is out of recession, as per official data.

The 97-page report of the Group of Ministers of the Government of India on Government Communication, that has somehow making its round among the journalists has just revealed the secret as to how certain ministers, journalists, and BJP-RSS leaders conspired to establish full control on Media in India and setting up dominant narratives in favour of the Modi rule in the country.