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Online traps for women and girls have been expanding and have become stronger in the recent months. Social media platforms are being used for trafficking and recruiting potential victims. Despite the plethora of existing anti-trafficking legal and policy frameworks at the national, regional, and international levels, the perpetrators enjoy widespread impunity. COVID-19 has worsened the situation across the world.

Star anchor Arnab Goswami’s arrest on November 4, 2020, from his home in Mumbai and his bail process, has sparked off a political war and protests in many places. But the nation sadly does not seem to want to know why 84-year-old Stan Swamy is still in prison post-November 5, 2020, the date till when his judicial custody was extended.

Now the NDA has won the Bihar assembly elections .but an insight into the BJP win would make it clear that three completely different factors were responsible for the defeat of Mahagathbandhan. Of the reasons the first was incompetent handling and marshalling of his manpower by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Though Tejashvi had given 70 seats the party did not have genuine candidates, having their support base and an image in their areas. The Congress distributed the tickets whimsically to satisfy the ego of their leaders. Some leaders had even raised the issue of selling the tickets. In the final count only 19 Congress candidates could win. Congress losing 51 seats was the severest set back. All the seats were won by the BJP.

The outcome of the Bihar assembly polls is important not because of the positive verdict in favour of the ruling coalition. It gains liberation from its captivity to the leadership of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Only in March 2020 the Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat had publicly disowned not only the Prime Minister Narendra Modi but had also announced disassociation with the Bharatiya Janata Party that stood in support of the NaMo regime. It was a message to Sangh, both the active cadre and admirers not to lend their services to the coalition in the neighbouring state. His denouncement was not to indicate his loss of interest in Indian politics but his horrification at his own inability to deter the Prime Minister from his line of politics.

Chandigarh: Local challenger Karandeep Kochhar fired bogey-free five-under-67 in round three to stretches his lead to four shot in the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship at Chandigarh Golf Club here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: For Kush Maini it turned out to be the case of so near yet so far.

New Delhi: The passionate support of their fans has propelled. Real Kashmir FC as a force to be reckoned with in Indian football.

With the end of the Bihar elections, the focus now shifts to the four states — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam — which are expected to go to polls together by April and May next year. In the north-eastern region, Assam is politically the most significant state — which alone has 14 out of 25 Lok Sabha seats of the region. In 2016 assembly elections, BJP emerged as the single largest party in the state for the first time and formed the government with the help of its allies — Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF).

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has made history as the first African and Indian American and as the first woman elected to that office in the history of the United States.

LUCKNOW: Despite retaining its one seat Malhani, there is nothing to celebrate for Samajwadi Party in the by polls for seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh the results of which were announced on November 10.