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In politics, certain poignant moments give incredible support to the opposition parties and adversely affect the ruling party in a state. The Singur moment for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa's lavish spending on her adopted son's wedding in 1995 for the DMK, the Belchi moment for Indira Gandhi, and Rajiv Gandhiji's insult to the Andhra Pradesh chief minister T. Anjaiah are some examples.

Among the many unique phrases in Indian politics, a particularly widely used one is “High Command” (HC) or “Aala Kaman”, meaning individual(s) at the apex of a political party. It’s a term that originated with Indira Gandhi, the famously dictatorial Congress chief, who sacked state chief ministers a staggering 50 times in her prime ministerial tenure. Almost four decades after Indira, this HC model dominates not just in Congress and BJP, but across parties.

New Delhi: Viraj Madappa, kept his nerves carding a two-under 70, and with a tournament tally of 14-under 274 won the trophy at the Rs. 70 lakh TATA Steel PGTI MP Cup at Delhi Golf Club (DGC) here on Friday.

Chennai: 19-year old Alwin Sundar (AS Motorsports), claimed the pole position in the Novice (Stock 165cc) category in the third round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Friday.

The period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole. This is because the “opening” up of the economy to freer trade in goods and services leads to a rapid introduction of structural-cum-technological change, which, because of its labour-displacing character, keeps down the growth rate of employment, to even below the natural growth-rate of the work-force. The resulting increase in the relative size of the reserve army of labour restrains the level of real wages everywhere, even as labour productivity grows massively, causing a rise in the share of economic surplus.

BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress will contest four by-polls in the face of mini internal revolt. The by-elections are being held in one Parliamentary and three Assembly constituencies. The threat of revolt is greater in BJP largely because the BJP sponsored defectors in two Vidhan Sabha constituencies. In one constituency BJP has chosen to nominate such a candidate who joined the BJP only a few days ago.

The corporate media could not but take note of the beating that the image of PM Modi and BJP got due to failure in management/mismanagement of Covid-19 pandemic; bringing in stark focus the absence of public healthcare infrastructure both in urban and rural India; lack of equipment, oxygen and medicines and healthcare personnel; and lakhs of counted and uncounted deaths as aptly penned by Parul Khakkar in Shab-Bahini Ganga and the king becoming ‘Nanga’.

Scrapping Article 370 gave the Modi Government much to crow about. But it did not stop the terror attacks. Or the terror killings. Today, the Kashmiri Hindu is back in his hellhole of the late 1980s. There’s a new strain of terrorists stalking him and killing him with a bullet to his head. Women are not spared.

India has never been able to record its workforce in the unorganised sector, and therefore there has been no question of providing them social security. They greatly suffered during COVID-19 lockdown and containment measures despite Modi government’s big assurances that never reached the ground, attracting bitter national and international criticism. The Centre promised to register all of them, but the e-shram portal for registration could be launched only on August 26, 2021, that too after the stern stand of the Supreme Court of India. However, the registration is too slow on account of numerous hurdles.

New Delhi: Vijayveer Sidhu and Rhythm Sangwan outclassed Thailand’s Kanyakom Hirunphoem and Schwakon Triniphakorn 9-1 in mixed rapid-fire, to give India its 10thgold medal of ISSF Junior World Championship, at the Las Palmas Shooting range in Lima, Peru.