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How Mamata Banerjee tamed the Naxals of Junglemahal in 2011 is still lore in West Bengal. Today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah wants to emulate Mamata. True, at that time, it was indeed “Banerjee (who) single-handedly wiped out” the Maoists from West Bengal, but she disappointed family members of some surrendered Maoists, who were jailed without the promised concessions.

Much water has flowed down the Yamuna in one year after September 27, 2020, when the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind had given his assent to Modi’s three controversial farm laws. To mark one year of the assent, the Bharat Bandh observed on September 27, 2021, has now clearly showed how the farmers’ agitation began in Punjab has now spread almost all parts of the country, influencing the national and regional politics, changing the political dimension, and restablishing unprecedented farmers-workers unity after decades.

India has been in quest of a place at the UN high table for long. The issue has arisen again during last week's bilateral meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Chennai: On an incident-filled day, Agra's 17-year old Shahan Ali Mohsin, a multiple National karting champion, recorded a fine double in the MRF Formula1600 category that headlined the first round of the Indian National Car Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Sunday.

New Delhi: Indian senior football team head coach Igor Stimac on Sunday named 23 players for the forthcoming SAFF Championship scheduled in the Maldives from October 1 to 16.

New Delhi: Ace midfielder Neha Goyal feels that the women's hockey team with their superb showing at the Tokyo Olympics has established India as a force to reckon with at the International level.

Chennai: Deepak Ravikumar (Chennai) led a brilliant 1-2 finish for Momentum Motorsport along with Bengaluru’s Chirag Ghorpade in the Formula LGB 1300 race in the first round of the Indian National Car Racing Championship 2021 at the MMRT here on Saturday.

Kolkata: Bengaluru FC (BFC) came from behind yet again to register a 3-2 win against Army Green to complete the semifinal lineup of the 130th Durand Cup, at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) on Saturday afternoon.

Nine months after the army coup in Myanmar, poor administrative coordination between Government of India and the Mizoram government has emerged as a major problem as a steady stream of political dissidents from across the border continue to arrive in India’s Northeast region. Recent reports suggest that their number has crossed 20,000 in Mizoram and scores of Burmese ‘rebels’ are known to be staying in Manipur, Nagaland and other areas as well.

So, we are all less than average in the brains department, with our right to information curtailed to boot. The Union Government collects money on our behalf, for our stated welfare, from umpteens of sources, including government conduits, departments, ministries, government agencies. It hides as it seeks and then it plays ‘hide ‘n seek’ by refusing to divulge the sources and amounts of the money collected!