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New Delhi: Delhi Capitals are putting behind their defeat against Kings XI Punjab and eyeing to secure their place in the playoffs as they take on Kolkata Knight Riders in their eleventh match of the Dream 11 Indian Premier League in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was well and truly a quickie, to put in cricket parlance. The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF)on Thursday formally inducted the Kerala Congress(M) Jose K Mani faction as an ally, making out a strong case for entry into the Guinness Book of World Records!

The letter addressed by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, directly to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) raises issues of grave constitutional importance. Does such a direct approach interfere with the independence of the Judiciary from the Executive? A Chief Minister is writing not in his capacity as an ordinary citizen but as a Constitutional functionary.

The constitutional commitment of the Union government to provide "free coronavirus vaccination for all" was offered on Thursday in the form of bribe to the voters of Bihar.

Wealth distribution data are notoriously difficult to interpret. This is because variations in stock prices affect wealth distribution, so that a stock market boom suddenly makes the rich appear much richer, while a stock market collapse makes wealth distribution less unequal overnight. In other words, the fact that the rich hold a part of their wealth in the form of stocks makes it difficult to estimate their total wealth which now has one durable component and another that is potentially evanescent.

Custodial deaths in India are a cold-blooded play of power and class, which cannot be viewed in isolation. When law enforcement agencies become perpetrators of violence, it becomes an ominous case of abuse of authority, which is antithetical to the rule of law-based system of democratic governance where human rights rule supreme.

New Delhi: Ace defender Kothajit Khadangbam, feels that hockey players attending the coaching cum training camp at hockey Bengaluru for the Tokyo Olympics are totally focused and are shaping well for the games.

New Delhi: IF for London Olympic medalist Gagan Narang, the World Cup in 2008 was a redemption tournament,the 23-time World Billiards/snooker title holder Pankaj Advani remembers 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou as an event in which he came under tremendous pressure to win Gold for the country.

Though there is no civil war like situation in Karachi, according to the Pakistan media and all the leading Pak papers are alleging that Indian media is manufacturing news, the standoff between the ‘miltablishment-backed federal government, led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Islamabad and Pakistan People’s Party-run Sindh provincial government in Karachi is a reality which is hotting up. The Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah made an astounding disclosure that he had been threatened by a federal minister that the provincial government would be “dismissed” if he did not file an FIR against Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar, husband of PML(N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz.

The wave of resistance unleashed by the peasantry against the farm bills has conveyed a message to the nation. The people who feed the nation through their sweat and labor have the courage to fight back injustice. The Modi government was under the illusion that by waxing with terms like 'annadatha' would make them submissive to the three draconian agrarian laws. More than anybody else, the farmers understood the hidden intentions behind the bills. Whatever the government claimed it to be, those bills were opening the gates of Indian agriculture to corporatization and contract farming. They propagated that the bills would make the farmers free from their miseries.