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LUCKNOW: Battleground Uttar Pradesh is ready for assembly polls with three important opposition leaders former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of BSP and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi launching their election campaign.

It is suddenly energy crisis all over the world. In India we are facing a coal shortage of epic proportion which is threatening to upend the entire power situation. Talks are about impending shut down of a string of thermal power stations strewn around the country.

Human rights are routinely violated in our country. But rarely do ministers’ sons drive a jeep over human beings, deliberately. Lynching of human beings, they say, became frequent after 2014. Mostly because of the cow. Lakhimpur-Kheri saw four farmers killed by a rampaging jeep driven by an Union minister’s son, and in a “reaction to action” three BJP workers were beaten to death by enraged farmers.

The shift in the national focus from covid to coal has been prompted by fears of a nation-wide power blackout in the face of disruption in the movement of the vital commodity from the mines due to excessive rainfall, but the fact is that the energy crisis is part of a global post-covid phenomenon that is redefining the global energy scene, something that energy experts have been warning about in recent times.

Pakistan’s father of nuclear science, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died recently was born in Bhopal. “This child appears to me prodigy…. Look in his eyes.” In 1936, these were the words of Maharani of Narasinghar, a tiny princely state, 45 kms from Bhopal. Zulekha Begum, mother of Qadeer Khan, who turned out to be father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb and the Maharani were good friends and both ladies visited each other frequently. In one of her visits to Narasingarh, Zulekha Begum has taken young Qadeer along with her.

India is home to 430 million (43 crore) mobile video gamers presently and the user base is estimated to go up to 650 million (65 crore) by 2025, a latest report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMA) has revealed. Coupled with this, according to official sources, children’s compulsive addiction to video games and the agony they are facing has emerged a worrying signs where children so addicted become more and more violent endangering future generations. Video games designers control the players’ behavior by providing stimulus and rewards resulting in children with poor impulse control or struggling with studies and not knowing the consequences are the most vulnerable to fall prey to the evil charms of video games. Many bright students, addicted to video games, loose focus in both studies and sports. They have to contend with falling grades and failing health. There are addicted students so obsessed with the games that they forget even how to speak and undergo protracted counseling to relearn speaking. There is, therefore, the need for regulation of the video industry. Currently, it is free for all.

Jaipur: Bengaluru golfer Khalin Joshi fired a scorching nine-under 61 to take the lead in round one of the Rs. 40 lakh Jaipur Open at the par-70 Rambagh Golf Club (RGC) here.

Chandigarh: Amandeep Drall will spearhead a strong field in the 10th leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour to be played at the Chandigarh Golf Club par-72 layout from Wednesday.

The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has blamed the Hindu parents, the Hindu families, for not giving their children the values of pride for one’s religion and traditions. He was not far from the youth. The Hindu parents in recent times have lost control on their wards as they give more importance and credence to their political friends and bosses than listening to their begetters. The political bosses are the mentors. In the past the words of parents represented the words from Geeta and Ramayan.

The demand for the repeal of the sedition law and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act(UAPA) has now come to the fore once again with the former Supreme Court Justice Rohintan Nariman forcefully stating that the time has come for the apex court to let citizens breath more freely by removing both sedition law and UAPA from the statute.