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Rahul Gandhi shows he doesn't want the world to see him through BJP's lens
Rahul, who has been a target of the BJP and knows that he has to silence his critics inside the Congress and the safforn party, said: "I am by nature a believer in Tapasya. Bharat Jodo Yatra is a powerful experience in sharing the suffering of our people and also learning from their tremendous wisdom."
Rahul Gandhi has avoided poll campaigns for fear of losing, says BJP
During the Yatra, Rahul Gandhi is continuously hitting out at the BJP government via tweets and statements, while the saffron party is also counter-attacking the Grand Old Party.
Rahul Gandhi uses Yatra to unite party, connect it with people
Former party president Rahul Gandhi has till now anchored the Congress show with Sonia Gandhi in a cameo. The Congress is maintaining that it is a huge success as the Karnataka BJP was also forced to take out a Yatra to counter the Congress foot march in the state and also in Gujarat which is a BJP citadel.
CLOSE-IN: The Spirit of Cricket has always been an issue
How wrong one was, as the first cricket legend, Dr. W.G. Grace, when bowled out by the first ball he faced, decided to put the bails back and continue batting. His retort to the umpire was that the crowd had come to see him and not the bowler and certainly not the umpire!
What endears Big B to Indian families
Big B, for millions in India, represents the epitome of humanity, simplicity but full of grace, patience, kind-heartedness and above all so much rooted to culture and yet open for change. This is best manifested by the immense popularity of his KBC show.
Destruction caused by climate change
The forthcoming COP27, UN climate talks due to be held in Egypt in November, may highlight the compensation system for poorer countries known as "loss and damage", caused by the Climate Change. It is a fact, corroborated by various UN and independent reports that Climate Change over the last 25 years particularly has caused costly damages, including drought, rising heat, less or more rains, tropical cyclones and more gradual changes, such as desertification and rising sea levels across the globe.
US-Pakistan ties on the mend, but not fixed yet
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken just hours before the latter hosted Jaishankar to a working dinner at his residence. And Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif met US President Joe Biden at a reception the latter hosted in New York for visiting dignitaries from the member nations of the UN for the annual General Assembly meetings.
Amit Shah's rally in J&K: Gamechanger or just another futile promise?
Undeniably this was one of the most triumphant visits by any Indian Minister to Jammu and Kashmir especially with regards to the security situation. Surely we are aware of how 13 people were killed overnight, on the eve of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the valley circa 2013. Such killings were an indication of a discontent people, trying to give a statement to the world - that India's ministers are not welcome to their land.
Spy's Eye: Police reform a matter for serious deliberation - it need not become a slogan
Equality before law is a basic requisite of democracy and an investigation into a cognisable offence is done in the exercise of the sovereign power of the state. The first question therefore is to examine if the police was even conscious of these higher principles governing its functioning and whether we can say that the leadership of the police in India that was in the hands of the 'Indian Police Service' - a prime national civil service - was sufficiently groomed in this light.
To whom does RSS want to convey message by expressing concern over unemployment, poverty?
Various meanings are being drawn from the statement of Hosabale, who holds the position of number two after Mohan Bhagwat in the Sangh. The opposition parties are also trying to corner the government over his statement, but the big question is for whom this statement was meant? To whom and what message was Hosabale trying to convey through this statement?
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