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Gurugram: Teenage pro Jahanvi Bakshi and amateur Sneha Singh were tied for the lead after at the end of the marathon second day of the seventh leg of the Hero WPGT at the DLF Golf & Country Club, here on Thursday.

Hyderabad: Ludhiana’s Pukhraj Singh Gill and Gurugram’s Manu Gandas struck scores of seven-under 64 to hold the joint first-round lead as the PGTI resumed its 2020-2021 season with the Golconda Masters Telangana Open at the Hyderabad Golf Association (HGA) course.

Petrol sells at Rs 100 at many places across the country. In those places where the price hasn’t yet crossed Rs 100, petrol sells near to it. Prices of diesel too are high. It now sells near to Rs 90 — in cities like Mumbai, it sells near to Rs 100. If this isn’t enough domestic LPG cylinders prices have been rising.

It’s embarrassing to watch and listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s spokespersons and Modi’s ‘friendly Media’ cohorts trying desperately to establish a narrative to rationalize Modi’s decision to ‘engage’ with Taliban “terrorists”. Till before Tuesday evening, BJP spokespersons stuck with the ‘terrorists’ label for the Taliban usurpers of Afghanistan, but, since then, there’s disengagement from the word ‘terrorists’ vis a vis the Taliban.

In the poster released by the Indian Council of Historical Research on the 75th anniversary of our independence, among the eight leading freedom fighters, country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has not been placed. A visionary, he was against the division of the country and opposed the proposition to accept religion as the basis. He was declared by Gandhi ji as his political heir and was in jail for nine years. It was during his tenure as the Congress president when the Congress adopted the resolution of complete independence in 1929. While fighting against British, he was also formulating the concept of the democratic structure the country was to have after freedom.

Social protection is a human right, yet majority of the people are not covered under even one social protection scheme across the world. Indians remain one of the most neglected and vulnerable population. The World Social Protection Report 2020-22 reveals that 47 per cent of the global populations are covered by at least one social protection benefit, but in India only 24.4 per cent people are lucky enough to have under a social protection umbrella.

Recent pronouncements and observations by the Allahabad High Court on issues relating to religious educational institutions and cow protection are likely to add to the apprehensions of the minorities and renew the debate on secularism. There is, however, cause for consolation as these have come during the course of hearing certain cases and not necessarily court verdicts.

Supreme Court Judge, Justice D Y Chandrachud, has given a thoughtful and lucid talk on ‘Speaking Truth To Power: Citizens And The Law’ on the occasion of the Justice M C Chagla Memorial Lecture.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals' star batsman Shreyas Iyer, who was out of action in the first half of the IPL due to a shoulder injury, is eagerly awaiting the second half of the league scheduled to begin from 19 September in UAE.

Raymond Williams would not have claimed to have found all the answers. But we should remember him as one of the most thoughtful socialist writers of the 20th century.