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The Left in Indian academia is not used to talking much. For seven long decades, it has quietly run its writ without uttering too many words. It wrote textbooks and re-wrote history with the singular ideological agenda of undermining Hindus, their past, and their incontrovertible bond with the nation. Anybody who did not partake of the whitewash of anti-Hindu genocides or participate in the vilification campaign of nationalists were cornered and cancelled. Universities ran in a client-patron model. Sub-mediocre students or scholars would be protected and rewarded solely for their ideological loyalty. Bright minds from the non-Left would be denied guides or peer reviews by the cabal. Those like Arun Shourie, Sita Ram Goel, Ram Swarup, Koenraad Elst, Michel Danino, David Frawley or Meenakshi Jain would be deemed communal. Stalwarts such as Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Nilakanta Sastri, and Jadunath Sarkar would be discredited on some pretext or the other. In his book titled Njan Enna Bha

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has released the admit card for the practical exams of Secondary and Senior Secondary courses for the April - May 2022 public exams. Class 10 and 12 applicants can now download their hall tickets through the official website of NIOS at  sdmis.nios.ac.in . Steps to download the NIOS admit cards for Class 10 and 12 practical exam: Go to NIOS’s official website -  nios.ac.in Search and click on the Exams and Result tab available on the homepage Click on the examination option and then on NIOS hall ticket (practical) 2022 option Enter enrollment number and press the submit button The NIOS hall tickets for Class 10, 12 practical exams will appear on the screen Here’s the direct link to download NIOS admit card for Class 10 and 12 practical exam. The NIOS theory exam for secondary and senior secondary courses will start from 4 April at various exam centres in India and overseas. According to the NIOS website, the hall ticket for the

The deadline to apply for the Graduate and Technician Apprentice posts for the one-year Apprentice programme at Bhilai Steel Plant ends today, 5 March. Interested candidates can visit the official website - portal.mhrdnats.gov.in/boat and apply for the vacancies. It is to be noted that the company has invited only those candidates who have not had apprenticeship training in the past, or are currently taking apprenticeship training (as defined by the Apprenticeship Act 1961/1973), as per the official notice. Eligibility criteria Candidates who are applying for the post must posses a BTech degree (for Graduate Apprentices) or Diploma (for Polytechnic Apprentices). Selection procedure Candidates will be shortlisted on merit basis. “Candidates shall be informed about their selection via email / BOAT portal as per which they have to report at the designated place and time,” said the official notice. Selected candidates must report to the training centre within two weeks of receiving t

The online application window for recruitment to the post of Headmaster, in Senior Secondary Schools under the state Education Department, has been opened by Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC). Candidates who want to apply can register themselves online through the official website of BPSC - onlinebpsc.bihar.gov.in . The last date to apply for the Headmaster vacancies is 28 March. Eligibility criteria: All applicants should be Indian citizens and residing in Bihar. Candidates applying for the post should be between 31 and 47 years of age as on 1 August 2021. BPSC has allowed upper age limit relaxation for Reserved category candidates. Eligible candidates must have a post-graduate degree from a recognised university with a minimum of 50 percent marks. The applicants should also have a BEd/BAEd/BScEd degree from a government recognized institution. It is mandatory for all aspirants for the Headmaster post to have qualified the Teacher Eligibility Test held in or after 2012. More

Kerala State Lottery Department will declare the result for Karunya KR 539 lottery today, 5 March, at 3 pm. The Kerala lottery results of the KR 529 draw can also be checked at the official website of Kerala lottery at  keralalotteryresult.net . While live results shall be out at 3 pm, detailed results will be available from 4.30 pm onwards. The lottery draw will take place on Saturday at Gorky Bhavan, which is located near Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram. Results of Karunya KR-539 lottery will also be published in the Kerala Government Gazette. The first prize of Kerala Lottery Karunya KR 539 is Rs 80 lakh. Second prize of the KR 539 is Rs 5 Lakh whereas the third prize winner shall take home an amount of Rs 1 lakh. Once the result for Karunya KR 539 lottery is announced online ticket holders must match their numbers with the results published in Kerala Government Gazette. Winning KR 539 ticket holders must then take their tickets and surrender it in the Kerala Lottery Offic

When I was a graduate student in the United States over three and a half decades back, I got some unasked-for advice which I will never forget. It was delivered by the late Professor Stephen Philip Cohen (1936-2019), then an influential don in Political Science at my Alma Mater and already recognised as one of the foremost experts on South Asia in the US. Professor Cohen not only mentored and trained a whole generation of Indian and subcontinental students in peace and security studies, but advised the US State Department and went on to be a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute after he retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In a meeting in which the topic of debate was the India-Pakistan situation, I innocently made some comments about the US and the then USSR. Professor Cohen said rather cryptically, though not impolitely, “Let the big boys sort it out for themselves.” Though in my early twenties, I think I was wise and mature enough not to take the snub

07:20 (IST) Manipur Election 2022 Voting LATEST Update   Phase 2 of Manipur Assembly Elections 2022 has started Early voters waiting in line while maintaining COVID-19 protocols to cast their votes in Jiribam. Phase 2 of Manipur Assembly Elections 2022 has started. Early voters waiting in line while maintaining Covid SOP to cast their votes in Jiribam. #ECI #ElectionCommissionOfIndia #CEOManipur #SVEEP #ManipurVotes2022 #CovidSafeElections #ManipurElection2022 pic.twitter.com/jXo7HNHZfg — The CEO Manipur (@CeoManipur) March 5, 2022 07:18 (IST) Manipur Election 2022 Voting LATEST Update   Second phase of voting begins in Manipur The second phase of voting in Manipur began at 7 am today. Voting has started across 22 assembly constituencies and will go on till 4pm. As many as 92 candidates, including two women are in the fray whose electoral fate will be decided in the second phase of Assembly polls. Manipur has a total of sixty assembly constituencies of which 38

Petrol and diesel prices remained unchanged in the country on Friday, 4 March. In Delhi, fuel is relatively cheaper than the rest of the metros because the state government had earlier decided to reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on petrol, bringing down the price of the fuel in the city by about Rs 8 per litre. At a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, it was decided that the VAT on petrol will be reduced from the present 30 per cent to 19.4 per cent, leading to a cut of around Rs 8 per litre, officials said. The price of petrol after the VAT cut will go down from the current Rs 103 per litre to Rs 95 per litre, sources told PTI . Earlier, the petrol price in Delhi was higher as compared to the NCR cities in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, where the state governments had announced a VAT cut following the Centre reducing the excise duty on fuel prices. The Centre had on the eve of Diwali, announced an excise duty cut on fuels resulting in a sharp decrease in petrol

It may be among the rare occasions when the Left and the Right in India are on the same page. They both support the government’s position on the Ukraine war, though to varying degrees, of course. The Ukraine crisis has been among the toughest and the most significant of the Modi government’s foreign policy decisions. India had to tread a fine diplomatic line without being seen as siding with any of the two sides — and so far it has done a good job. It hasn’t been an easy decision for India. For, the country has invested heavily on its ties with the West, especially the United States. And yet, it knew the hazards of taking the Westward turn, out of habit or democratic sentimentalities. One single misstep and India faces a grave geostrategic scenario, with China baying for its blood. Today, India may seem alone but in the world of diplomacy what is apparent may not be true. We, for instance, know how Nehruvian India had so many friends but when Mao’s China came cruising inside our bord

On Wednesday, India once again abstained from voting in the UN General Assembly on a resolution that deplored “in the strongest terms Russia’s aggression against Ukraine” and called on Moscow to “immediately, completely, and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.” While the resolution — adopted by 141 countries with five voting against and another 35 abstaining — is not legally binding, it is nevertheless a measure of Russia’s isolation in the world body that it could get support from only Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria to vote against . This was India’s third abstention in a week. At the 15-nation UN Security Council last Friday, India had abstained along with China and the UAE, and insisted on dialogue as the only way out and regretted that “path of diplomacy was given up”. In its explanation, India had underscored that it is “deeply concerned about the welfare and security of the Indi

The procuring price of 24-carat gold today, 3 March, stands at Rs 52,040 in India after a whooping rise of Rs 1,090 from yesterday’s rate of Rs 50,950. One kilo of silver is currently priced at Rs 67,200 today. The much in demand metal varies daily due to factors like making charges, excise duties and state taxes. Here is the recent gold rate from some Indian cities on 3 March: In Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai, 10 grams of 22-carat gold is being bought and sold for Rs 47,700, as per the Good Returns website . The same quantity of the precious yellow metal is being obtained for Rs 48,800 in Chennai today. If we consider the 24-carat gold rates, in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, 10 grams of the metal is valued at Rs 52,040. The same quantity of 24-carat gold in Chennai is being traded at Rs 53,240 today. In Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar and Kerala, 10 grams of 22-carat gold is sold at Rs 47,700. Meanwhile, in cities such as Bengaluru and Hyderabad, the same quantity of 22-carat purity is b

The Russia-Ukraine military confrontation is taking the most visceral shape, disturbing the peace in the region. The side effects of this confrontation are going to be experienced by nations across the globe as the ongoing inflation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic is going to cross all bearable thresholds. On top of it, the US sanctions against Russia further complicate the global economic scenario. Therefore, this war is a calculated move undertaken by Russia with a certain specific aim in mind knowing the nature of the divided European Union (EU) and verbose and effete United States. President Vladimir Putin understands the limitations of the EU and the US and Europe’s dependence on Russia for its energy needs. The military option chosen by the Kremlin at the Ukrainian theatre is just the first step to unseat the US from the position of global hegemon. The US-led world order based on the much-hyped concepts such as democracy, neoliberalism, human rights, etc, is going to experienc