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The opposition parties has been criticising the Modi government for its obsession to avoid negative news on Covid-19. But more than the parties, particularly Rahul Gandhi, trying to score brownie points, the issue has now attracted attention of global professional entities as well.

The Indian Parliament is quickly moving from being the custodian of the dignity of legislation to being a site for the acclamation of authoritarianism. Admittedly, Parliament has had an uneven history, sometimes rising to its democratic mandate; at other times, debasing itself. But if the events of the last few days are any guide, the Indian temple of democracy will continue to be ground into the dust. It is important to understand two contexts that frame the current crisis.

When the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term on the first Monday in October, the symbol of its most important looming development will not be an individual case but an empty chair draped in black.

COVID-19 brought up a plethora of problems within society, some which surfaced with the onset of this pandemic. India’s rising number of infections, the growth rate of cases, inadequate health system, hunger crisis, the border conflict with China, our contracting economy, the future of students, suicides, the case involving Rhea Chakraborty and the sudden death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput are just a few of them.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no getting away from the grim reality. Covid positive cases in the State have, for the first time, crossed the 6000- mark. And the number is all set to scale new heights in the days to come.

It’s getting to be tricky talking, writing, discussing Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). The subject is so interwoven with not only Pakistan’s claim to sovereignty over the geographical spreads vis a vis India’s integral part theory, which will remain a theory unless India gathers its invisible courage and wrests control of the two territories, which brings the interloper into the picture – the Han-Chinese People’s Republic of China – which has been teaching the Islamic Republic of Pakistan a thing or two on how to deal with ‘Islam’ in a manner Pakistan can do nothing about it.

New Delhi: Ace goalkeeper Gurpreet Sandhu, and mid-fielder Sanju have been named the AIFF man and woman players of the year (2019-20) respectively.

On the day the Time magazine listed Dadi of Shaheen Bagh' 82-year-old Bilkis, a regular at the anti-CAA protest venue, as one of the top 100 influential people in the world, the Delhi police, “the most imaginative and efficient force in the world, even more intelligent than the Scotland Yard,” has come out with the revealing information that the women protesters were paid ‘daily wages’, used by the accused for ‘gender cover’, for secular cover and media cover.

The crucial hiatus between the ruling Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Pakistan Movement for Justice) , and its satellites on the one hand and the Opposition whose main constituents in terms of parliamentary strength are Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and Jamiar Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl-ur-Rehman) widens with the formation of the Pakistan Democratic movement at an All Parties Conference last Sunday (20 September) and adoption of a 26-point resolution –aiming at an end of the rule of PTI whose subservience to the army biggies are increasingly open.

The two bills rammed through parliament last week were objectionable in every conceivable sense. The very fact of their being rammed through the Rajya Sabha, without being put to vote despite demands for a division, was grossly anti-democratic. The fact of the centre making unilateral and fundamental changes in agricultural marketing arrangements which fall within the state list of the seventh schedule of the constitution was a blow against federalism. To resurrect the pre-independence arrangement under which the peasantry was exposed to the capitalist market without any support of the State, and which crushed it during the Great depression of the 1930s, was a betrayal of the promise of independence. To pit millions of small peasants against the might of a handful of private buyers, as the bills propose to do, was to open them up to monopsonistic exploitation.