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The November 26 strike was significant not only because it protests against the Modi government’s brazen and unprecedented attacks on workers and peasants in the country, not only because these attacks carry forward an imperialist agenda, but for a deeper and less discussed reason as well which can be seen as follows.

New Delhi: Promising midfielder Hardik Singh is confident that all the strenuous work he and his team mates have put in will definitely pay ‘because we are sacrificing a lot to do well in the Olympic Games'.

New Delhi: Two-time men’s defending champion Andamlak Belihu and women's title holder Tsehay Gemechu, both from Ethiopia, on Thursday maintained that given the strong field there is every possibility of new course records being set up in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM) here on Sunday.

Vasco, Goa: One of the oldest rivalries in the Indian football, the Kolkata derby, will make its debut in the Hero Indian Super League when East Bengal (EB) open their campaign against Mohun Bagan (MB) at the Tilak Maidan Stadium, Vasco on Friday.

New Delhi: “Maradona was the reason for me to fall in love with this game,” said former India captain Bhaichung Bhutia while paying a moving tribute to one of football’s greatest legends, Diego Maradona, 60, who died following a cardiac arrest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

The call to a nationwide strike on November 26-27, 2020, by the workers, joined by the farmers against the injustices imposed by the ruling regime was given on October 2, the day when the entire country celebrates the Jayanti of Mahatma Gandhi. It was also the time when centenary celebrations of All India Trade Union Congress were nearing their zenith. The very step symbolises the maturity of the class as irrespective of their affiliations, they have almost spontaneously initiated the struggle in which farmers from rural areas have also joined them.

The Uttar Pradesh government of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath passed an ordinance on November 24 which made the coercive conversion and using duplicitous means for inter-faith marriages with punishment up to 10 years imprisonment.

With the growth of populism and autocratic tendencies in democracies, the role of judiciaries has become more important than ever.

All of a sudden, a recommendation of an internal working group of the Reserve Bank of India has raised a storm of controversy. The working group has suggested allowing India’s corporate houses to float commercial banks.

The Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank of India has proposed allowing large corporates and industrial houses to own banks by amending the Banking Registration Act, 1949. The other proposal is to allow large non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) with asset size of Rs 50,000 crore and above (including those controlled by corporate houses) and with a track record of a decade, to convert themselves to banks.