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The ground-breaking ceremony of the new “People’s Parliament” building took place with considerable fanfare two weeks ago. Under Article 79 of the Constitution, Parliament consists of the President and its two Houses. But neither the President nor the Vice-President, who is also the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, were invited. The protocol would have required the President to perform the ceremonies.

Goa: East Bengal are still on the lookout for their first win of the Hero Indian Super League season as they face Chennaiyin the Tilak Maidan here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Former fast bowler Chetan Sharma was on Thrusday named chairman of the senior men's selection committee of the BCCI.

New Delhi: Boxing Federation of India (BFI) on Thursday announced that it will hold the elections for its office bearers in February 2021.

There is something curious about the “Legion of Merit” award conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi by President Donald Trump. The Legion of Merit is primarily a military honour bestowed by an American president. The chief commander category has been in the past given mainly to army chiefs, generals and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of other countries. Only a handful have been given to heads of State, or, government leaders and those too have been close military allies of the United States.

On December 26 in the year 1925, the Communist Party of India (CPI) — was formally founded on Indian soil at Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) braving the brutal attacks and repression unleashed by the British and other colonial rulers.

Lawyers from across the country have announced that they will observe fast along with the farmers to show solidarity.

Year 2020 has been a bad year for the publishing industry. Retail buying has gone down to near zero. For six months, from March to September, online sales of books too could be counted on the fingertips. It is books that have been on the anvil since 2018 that have been really forged and have been made available in the public domain by major publishers in India after August.

Narendra Modi’s visit and his epilogue at the Aligarh Muslim University would be remembered for its asymmetry. While it reminds of the famous maxim kahin pe nigahe, kahin pe nishana (targeting someone and shooting somebody else) it also attempts at his image makeover in the wake of farmers’ agitation.

The Indian intelligentsia has an incredible propensity to swallow the self-serving arguments of metropolitan capitalism that are typically supposed to constitute ‘economic wisdom’; and nowhere is this more evident than in the case of India’s food economy. There are a plethora of centre-page articles in newspapers these days suggesting that Indian kisans should move away from producing foodgrains towards other crops, which is actually a demand that metropolitan countries have been making for quite some time. They want us to import foodgrains from them, of which they have a surplus, to meet the excess of our domestic demand over domestic production. This would take us back to the pre-Green Revolution days; and now members of the Indian intelligentsia are echoing in various ways this metropolitan demand to diversify away from foodgrains.