Opinion

-Pullela Gopichand (Chief Coach of the Indian badminton team) The surge of confidence among India’s athletes is real as they fine-tune their preparations for the Olympic Games in Tokyo next month. The mix of immense self-belief and the nervous excitement among India’s elite sportspersons is there for all to see, …

– Rattan Lal Kataria  (Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Social Justice & Empowerment) As a child, the onset of monsoons brought much-needed succor from the dry and harsh summers. Playing outdoors was no less than walking on a sizzling hot clay oven – often giving blisters on feet. …

– Kulwant Singh Ankhi (PRINCIPAL) Former Granthi(priest and Sikh scripture reader) and former Jathedar of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti had been a prominent grammarian and explicative exegete of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. He taught efficiently a large number of religious studies students. He had been a …

– DEEPSHIKHA (Academician) Human beings have faced a great number of challenges like world wars, epidemics, pandemics, natural calamities, and many sorts of atrocities in the name of power, race, and religion. The human race has been able to exist and thrive post all these occurrences. The same can be …

– Bindu Singh (EDITOR) The second surge of COVID-19 seems to be more devastating as public outcry indicates immense failure of governments’ machinery. This view gets firm with the latest directions given by the Supreme Court of India in which the apex court has warned the state governments against filing …

Dr. Pyara Lal Garg (The writer is former Registrar Baba Farid University and Social Activist) Mahan Panchayat at Jagraon was so well attended and peaceful with the tens of thousands of participants listening to the future plans of the struggle with enduring patience, that the farmers’ Unions’ leadership really got …

– Jagtar Singh (The writer is a senior Journalist) CHANDIGARH: The farmers’ struggle that initially was sparked in Punjab against the three agri marketing laws has started hitting at the very support base of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party nurtured diligently in the Hindi heartland. This …

Over the years, Public Distribution System (PDS) which was started in 1960s as a system to manage the scarcity of foodgrain supplies, has come a long way from a “welfare-based” means to a “rights-based” food-security platform under the National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA).  This is first of its kind …

– Om Birla (Lok Sabha Speaker) After Independence, India adopted its Constitution on 26th November, 1949, which is a historical date. Today is the 71st anniversary of this important historical event that lays the foundation of independent India. The Scholars like Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, …

The indefinite agitation of farmers has started creating problems for state residents, who have no role in passing the latest Farm Acts. But ironically the agitation has failed to create even a minor problem for those, who are responsible for Farm Acts and are sitting in New Delhi. The adamancy …