Combative rhetoric and mudslinging, and so-called friendly fights, are par for the course during Lok Sabha electioneering. But the recent flare up in verbal spats, days before election on April 26, between INDIA allies CPM.
Sports are not siloed away from society. Wrestling on the mat is not walled off from struggles outside it. The three swift bouts Vinesh Phogat convincingly won to head to her third Olympic Games, evoke.
As YS Sharmila takes forward former CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s political heritage, her party, Congress – virtually written off in the two Telugu states till it won Telangana’s assembly election – seems to be on.
Again sending the international community into a tizzy, Israel reportedly carried out a direct strike against Iran yesterday. Although Tel Aviv hasn’t officially owned up to the strike – which unconfirmed reports say was carried.
A colossal 50-ft snake fossil called Vasuki indicus was discovered in Kutch, the largest find of the madtsoiidae species that lived across the southern hemisphere some 47 million years ago. It’s a clue not only.