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New Delhi: World no 6, Jyothi Surekha Vennam clinched gold as India bagged 7 medals to finish second behind South Korea at the 22nd Asian Archery Championship at Dhaka.

Digboi: Chandigarh's Yuvraj Sandhu carded a superb five-under 67 in round three to take a two-shot lead at 15-under 201 at the IndianOil SERVO Masters Golf here on Friday.

On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi rightly repealed the three draconian farm laws to prevent a political snowball in the ensuing assembly elections, it is worthwhile to ponder over how to make Indian agriculture smart now that the controversial laws have been withdrawn.

The just ended climate summit COP26 has largely disappointed the people around the world as there was hardly any attempt to take bold steps to avert rapid global warming. Despite the urgency to halt catastrophic climate change, the pact that was approved at the end of the summit contained compromise and permitted the continued use of coal in coming decades instead of phasing it out along with other fossil fuels. The ambitious initial climate draft seeking commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and phase out fossil fuel use was watered down at the behest of powerful corporate oil and coal lobby.

The Modi government has been raising taxes on petro-products as its main instrument of resource mobilisation for government spending. This ironically has the dual effect of not stimulating the economy, but stimulating inflation instead. An alternative fiscal policy of raising resources through direct taxes on the rich (of which wealth taxation is the best possible option) and using those proceeds to increase government expenditure would have both stimulated the economy and kept down the rate of inflation.

Julio Ribeiro and Harsh Mander among others. There will be folks who will mock them with “the usual suspects” tag, but then these former civil servants are persistent with their consistency to stop the Union Government from initiating and implementing overbearing actions; cry foul when the law oversteps and makes an ass of itself.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi corrects his mistake by just shedding his arrogance and announcing repeal of the three controversial farm laws he got passed in the Parliament of India in the midst of COVID-19 crisis when the whole country was struggling to save lives of the people. His government treated the situation as an opportunity to push ‘agriculture market reform’ in the country which was mischievously labeled as ‘agriculture reforms’, but the basic purpose of the laws was to bring corporate sector to farms, which triggered widespread stiff resistance of the farmers despite lockdowns and containment measures. Farmers rushed to New Delhi on November 26, 2020 to protest which marked the beginning of their agitation. Modi’s announcement of repeal has come just before the first anniversary of the historic farmers’ agitation in the country, which solves a problem that he had created himself.

New Delhi: The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has congratulated the farmers and their organisations for their historic victory which they achieved through a prolonged and determined struggle supported by all sections of society.

New Delhi: Veteran sports commentator and football expert Novy Kapadia, is no more Kapadia, 68, died here on Thursday afternoon, after a prolonged illness aged 68.

Digboi, Assam: Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Sandhu fired four-under 68 to emerge second-round leader of the Rs. 60 lakh IndianOil SERVO Masters Golf at the Digboi Golf Links here on Thursday.