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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected India’s GDP to grow by 11.5% in 2021-22. If that happens, India will be the fastest growing among major economies of the world. This would be a good augury for the budget for next fiscal, which is just a few days away. One can expect that the revenues should show some buoyancy from the second half of the year.

THE kisan tractor march on Republic Day in Delhi was a remarkable and unique mass action. At no time had the capital of India witnessed such an extraordinary protest which involved over one lakh tractors and tens of thousands of people. There may have been bigger rallies in the past but not such a massive protest action.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mastered the art of promising moon to the distressed Indians. Addressing a meeting in Kolkata to celebrate the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Modi said that “Today the world is seeing India in a new avatar, from LAC to LOC, wherever anyone is trying to pose any challenge to the territorial sovereignty of the country, is given a befitting reply”. He said that Netaji would be satisfied and proud to see this new self reliant India.

HANOI: With only 35 recorded deaths, Vietnam has managed the coronavirus pandemic better than almost any other country on earth. And, unlike other nations, where mass unemployment and recession are the norm, Vietnam’s economy is actually growing. That’s the context in which the week long 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) opened here on January 26.

Protests do not really seem to win many victories for any side today. Even though the government agreed to finally hold back farm laws for a year and a half, farmers refused to back off on their demand for repeal. Dissenters were convinced that the state was quietly digging in its heels, though it officially offered to push a ‘pause’ button.

Some fanatics are striving for the entire the post independence era of decades to establish hegemony of the Indian religion and in the process have been hammering at Indian culture that outlived every other culture for the past four thousand years. The Indian culture is democratic in concept and most tolerant in nature. It did withstand not only several splintered sects that emerged from it but also emergence of two other religions twenty four hundred years ago. The original concept prevailed in the ultimate as it was not the forced concept. Anyone can adopt or move away from it.

New Delhi: Junior Women's Hockey Team Suman Devi Thoudam feels that the successful tour of Chile, where her team remained unbeaten, was a good experience for the players.

Vasco, Goa: Hyderabad take on Bengaluru in the Hero Indian Super League at the Tilak Maidan on Thursday, coach Manuel Marquez knows that a win will go a long way in helping them stay there.

Buenos Aires: Argentina came up with back-to-back goals in the final quarter, to overpower Indian Women’s Hockey team 3-2 in a match that went down to the wire.

BERLIN: The U.S.-American nightmare, tight-lipped and pouting, was finally forced to gallop off to its luxurious stable in Florida. Almost every European joined in “Hurrah!” cheers as it watched him go!