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Mumbai, Sep 23 (IANS) Mumbai City FC kick off their league title defence and have named a 27-member squad to represent the Islanders in the 2023-24 Indian Super League.Des Buckingham’s side set the stage ablaze last season, breaking as many as 17 all-time ISL records, en route to winning the League Winners’ Shield in 18 games, with two rounds to spare. The Islanders will come in to the new ISL campaign aiming to do what no other club has done before – successfully defend the ISL League Winners Shield.Last season’s ISL Player of the Season and AIFF Men’s Player of…

San Francisco, Sep 23 (IANS) Google has mocked Apple in a new video by comparing the iPhone to an “iPager” because it does not use the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging protocol and still uses the decades-old SMS/MMS protocol for messaging with Android users. According to The Verge, Google last year launched a “Get the Message” campaign to put pressure on Apple to support RCS on the iPhone, which is still ongoing today with “iPager”.”iPager isn’t real, but the problems that Apple causes by using SMS are,” said Google in the video description on YouTube.”Let’s make texting better for everyone and…

‘Body of Lies’ is a 2008 American spy action thriller film directed and produced by Ridley Scott starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe in the lead roles.Set in the Middle East, it follows the attempts of the CIA and the GID of Jordan to catch “al-Saleem”, a terrorist. Frustrated by their target’s elusiveness, differences in their approaches strain relations between a CIA operative, his superior, and the head of Jordanian Intelligence.Asked in a media chat why he said no to Hollywood movies even though offers kept coming his way, Nana said: “It was because I did not have confidence about…

Such spirit was reflected in drafting of the Constitution where members engaged beyond partisan line and conflicting ideologies came together “in one voice” to draft the Constitution, he said while addressing the inaugural session of the International Lawyers’ Conference organised by the Bar Council of India.CJI Chandrachud said that while the judiciary upholds rule of law, the bar plays a key role as lawyers help in business efficiency and cross border transactions and contribute to national well being and economic development.He stressed that it is time for the lawyers to reach across the world in a global landscape.During his address,…

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Delhi on its official X handle posted, “After 12 rounds of counting, ABVP is headed towards victory on all four seats. Tushar Dedha is ahead by 3000 votes for the post of President. Vice President post Sushant Dhankhar ahead of 1200. Aparajita ahead with 5,500 votes for the post of secretary. Sachin Baisla is ahead by 7,000 votes on the post of co-secretary.”Following the lead on all the four posts, the ABVP activists and workers started celebration in the campus of the colleges.Even Union Minister Kiren Rijiju congratulated the ABVP candidates and said, “ABVP…

In Uttar Pradesh, out of the 9.1 lakh representatives, 3, 04,638 are women.Yet the tangible and transformative contribution of grassroots women leaders remains sidelined, in favour of stories around failure and co-option.The story of a man who broke his vow of celibacy in 2021 to marry and make his wife contest in the panchayat election after the seat was reserved for women, showcases the intense desire of men to retain their hold on seats reserved for women.The husbands of women who are elected as panchayat heads are known in Uttar Pradesh as ‘Pradhan Pati’ and many in the village are…

This is the bitter truth in Bihar where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar brought reservation for women at the Panchayat level in 2006 with the idea to empower them.However, in the male-dominated society of rural Bihar, Nitish Kumar’s idea did not prove to be completely practical. But that did not prevent him from winning the unflinching support of women in the state who have time and again stood firmly behind him and turned their loyalty into votes at election time.The astute politician that is Nitish Kumar ensured that he kept his crucial vote bank happy by launching various schemes for women’s…

Out of the 12,769 sarpanches 6,808 are females and women have a significant presence in both the urban and local bodies.The state has 59,000 women as ward members in municipalities and more than 4,000 women representatives in Mandals and Zilla Parishads.The state claimed to have made significant progress since the early 1990s when one-third reservation was given to women in the local bodies.Over the years, the representation of women continues to improve in Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad territorial constituencies as many of them are Mandal presidents and chairpersons of Zilla Parishads.Leaders of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) claim…

Quota for women in panchayat and civic elections gave a new platform to candidates with no political background. It enabled them to take their first step in politics and establish themselves.One such woman is Kavita Joshi who left her profession as a hardware engineer and became a Sarpanch.In 2015, the Shobhagpura Panchayat seat was reserved for women and it became a rule that in order to contest elections the candidate had to have cleared eighth standard at least. Because of this rule, no one in the families already active in politics in the village could contest the elections.In such a…

Jyothilakshmi is a woman panchayat president of Kallakuranai village in Sivagangai district of Tamil Nadu. She is also a Dalit and faces strong discrimination.While speaking to IANS, Jyothilakshmi said, “ we are from the Pallar SC community and the discrimination starts during the election itself. We have to fall at the feet of the upper caste people to ask for votes. When they are contesting, they demand the votes from us but when we contest, we have to fall at their feet.”She said that she was not even given a proper chair at the panchayat office after she won the…