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New Delhi: Versatile midfielder Nilakanta Sharma feels that there is still more room for improvement before hockey team embarks on its Olympic campaign.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The contours of Kerala politics are changing fast. That is for sure. The latest shift in the political kaleidoscope – a tectonic one at that – is the decision of the Jose K. Mani faction of the Kerala Congress(M) to switch loyalty to the Left Democratic Front.

For the sake of the survival of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, it is imperative that the NDA must win the Bihar assembly election. Losing the election would endanger the Modi government and also pull down the RSS from the high pedestal of invincibility. Aware of this reality, the BJP think tank and RSS stalwarts have been using all the devices within their reach to accomplish the target.

The Modi government’s prevarication on the issue of loan moratorium during the Covid-19 pandemic has been evident right through. Every time the issue came up before the Supreme Court, which assumed a proactive role in bringing relief to those affected, the government has been shifting the goal posts as part of its evasive strategy.

Six of Kashmir’s biggest political parties came together on Thursday to form an alliance to peacefully seek the restoration of the erstwhile state’s special status and fight for the rights of the people in the restive region.

When a shylock comes to rescue a person in trouble, his main motif is not to help but to derive as much benefit as he can from lending. Similar is the case prevailing in Modi Raj under which even government is charging exorbitant interest rate of 24 per cent from street vendors who are in deep trouble due to COVID-19 lockdowns. It may surprise many, especially one who remembers the Prime Minister’s ‘pakodawala’ remark on employment. He had emphasized in January 2018, when unemployment had risen 45 years high, that even selling ‘pakoda’ was a job. However, even pakodawala lost his job with the beginning of lockdown from March 25, 2020. Economy came to a grinding halt, roads were deserted, and pakoda selling completely stopped along with all kinds of street vending.

Two esteemed medical and scientific journals have broken with almost two centuries of non-partisanship and weighed in on the upcoming Presidential elections in the United States.

A day after receiving presidential assent, the controversial Industrial Relations Code (IRC) 2020 which amends and consolidates existing laws relating to terms of employment, settlement of industrial disputes, and the functioning of trade unions, it was published in the Gazette of India on September 29, 2020. Ever since it was enacted by Parliament, the commentaries on IRC have mostly concentrated on the changes in the provisions relating to the “hire and fire” policy and strikes. What has been missed out are the modifications made in the Standing Orders (SO) of the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act (IESOA), 1946. The changes need to be focused upon, given its adverse implications.

LUCKNOW: Former IG and leader of All India People’s Front Mr SR Darapuri claimed that tribal women were not safe in Uttar Pradesh because the number and rate of atrocities on tribal women were higher than the national average.

New Delhi: Despite beating Chennai Super Kings by 44 runs in their first leg match of the IPL, Delhi Capitals are not letting their guards down as they take on the three-time champion in their second leg encounter on Saturday.