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Multan-born athlete, Milkha Singh, took up running after he saw his parents and seven siblings murdered during partition. His father’s last words were what saved him, and later gave India its first Commonwealth gold in 1958. Milkha passed away last week. What were his father’s last words and message were not known.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The signs are ominous for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. The lotus is in deep waters. There is no escaping that conclusion. The party, which is trying to emerge as a third force in the secular state, is now struggling to survive in the state’s political landscape.

The army which overthrew the elected government in Myanmar and took over power on February 1 has not only gagged the voice of the opposition but effectively blanked out any news emanating from that country except those vetted by the junta. Since April, hardly any news about the situation prevailing in the country has come out in foreign newspapers.

Aggression against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is the only design to salvage the image and prestige of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah after the BJP met with its waterloo in the Bengal assembly election. Though both the leaders were caught in their nasty domestic fight with the UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath on who to dictate future politics in the state, they continued with their scheming to trap Mamata in Chakravyuha.

There is little doubt in anybody’s mind that it is Congress that stands between Modi government and yet another term for it in 2024. But this role is best performed by the party in terms of omission rather than commission. If it has to be successful in fulfilling this national duty, which is to deny Modi another term because it will have disastrous consequences for the ‘idea of India, it has to adopt a self-effacing approach, and not allow the challenge to Modi to flounder on the inflated ego of the party leadership.

New Delhi: Luck smiled on Anirban Lahiri as the Indian professional booked the last berth available for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after he was placed 60th in the Final Olympic Golf Rankings list.

At a time, when the G-7 nations at their summit worked on a vaccine distribution strategy favouring more the developed world as against the poor countries who need most, five countries of Latin America at a meeting decided to be a part of a new international health order to share covid vaccine technology and production.

The more the deadline (11 September 2021) for complete withdrawal of the US troops from the Afghan soil draws , the more dreadful is the spectre of Taliban haunting rural areas in eastern, southern, northern, and western Afghanistan. A stark increase in deadly suicide bombings striking urban areas goes hand in hand with the nightmarish Taliban threat. During the last seven weeks and a half , Taliban fighters have seized three districts in Uruzgan including their once strongholds in the south along with Sar-e-Puln in the north and Groh, a remote and unstable province in the central highlands plus Ghazi, a strategic province in the main highway linking Kabul with Kandahar, the second-largest city of Afghanistan.

LUCKNOW: CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said that left parties would be meeting in Lucknow on June 25 to decide the strategy for 2022 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh The meeting will take place at CPI-M office.

The Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has made his dislike for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi through his public denouement of NaMo not once but twice. It may indicate his eagerness to ensure the successor in place of NaMo in the office but too many imponderables make the choice of and timings for action uncertain. Bhagwat also needs to avoid flames following replacement do not singe his position. The constitution and precedents do not envisage removal of the chief. It is a lifelong posting. First three chiefs remained in the office until their death. The last two preferred to retire early.