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The terrible disaster in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand on February 7, 2021, has already cost the lives of over 30 persons with another 150 or so missing or trapped. Tragically, most of the dead are workers in different infrastructure and hydro-electric power projects such as the small 13.2 MW project on the Rishiganga river near Raini Village which has been completely destroyed, and the much larger 520MW Tapovan power plant nearby on the Dhauliganga which too is badly damaged and where a number of workers are trapped. These projects were supposed to benefit the region but have become victims of the disaster. This is ironic because such reckless supposedly ‘developmental’ activities are themselves major contributors to such disasters, even if not always the prime cause.

Donald Trump’s friend Narendra Modi is punishing Twitter. Punishing it in a manner befitting action taken by Twitter against POTUS Trump after Capitol Hill. You cannot be one thing with regard to the United States’ house of Congress and another thing when it comes to the Red Fort, Union Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad told Twitter. If police action at Capitol Hill was right and proper, then police action at Red Fort should also get the same right certificate.

Sitting at the edge of debris, we are all aware that calamity would not spare anyone, it is just a matter of turn. There is to be deforestation, dams restraining the flow of rivers and then the bridges, and for each one, there would be uprooted trees, lost rivers and denuded peaks. In silence, nature accepts the void it faces, yet cannot restrain the upheavals coming in the aftermath — the price of the imperatives for the stepping up of ‘development’.

Politics and economics can never be separated. It is political economy which decides and reveals the nature and character of the state of any Nation. The Constitution of our country defines Indian state as a secular state and as a welfare state. The BJP-RSS combine has been aggressively making efforts to subvert the secular state into a theocratic fascist state. The present regime headed by Modi has been subverting the welfare state by dismantling public sector after the dismantling of the Planning Commission.

The Bhima Koregaon event on January 1, 2018 and the incidents that followed it can only lead a reasonable person to one conclusion: those charged with violence and conspiracy in the case are being maliciously framed.

NDA Union Government has begun countering fake news having set up a dedicated Fact Check Unit in Press Information Bureau (PIB). The Unit verifies the facts and disseminates correct information quickly. The Unit faces acute manpower crunch with no dedicated manpower. Personnel working there are information personnel charged to perform in the Unit in addition to their routine publicity and feedback work. It has, therefore, become truncated and moribund before it could be effective. The Unit is intended to counter fake news on official policies, programmes and schemes, which becomes insurmountable for the Unit when progenitors of fake news are ruling party Members of Parliament, State legislators, Ministers and ruling party’s IT Cell and its troll army that militate against the constitutional postulates and for that matter against the very idea of India.

Bambolim, Goa: An injury-time own goal from Enes Sipovic proved to be the difference as Jamshedpur edged Chennaiyin FC 1-0 at the GMC Stadium in Bambolim in the Hero Indian Super League on Wednesday.

Kolkata: Manipur based club Tiddim Road Union Athletic (TRAU), and their coach Nandakumar Singh have been a revelation in the ongoing Hero I-League season so far. The dark horses are perched at third in the Hero I-League table with ten points out of seven matches, three points adrift of leaders Churchill Brothers FC Goa.

Mumbai: Seher Atwal shot a flawless five-under 65 in the opening round of the third leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Promising youngster Divyansh Panwar (Rajasthan) hogged the limelight by smashing the finals world record in10M Air Rifle as Tokyo quota holders performed creditably on competition day two of the National Selection Trials 3&4 for Rifle/Pistol events, at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range here on Wednesday.