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Palestinians waged a general strike in the besieged Gaza Strip January 29 as protests continued to rage against the “dismal” Middle East peace plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

BJP experimenting violence with hatred has been gradually reaching to the flash point. This has not come as surprise. Amit Shah, the Home Minister has been providing it a perfect shape and character in the form of pitting Shaheen Bagh against India. In his election speeches in Delhi he has been harping on this aspect by saying that Shaheen Bagh has been endangering the social and political ethos of the country. The most ridiculous thing what he said was: “Listen voters on February 8, press the EVM button on lotus so hard that the shocks are felt in Shaheen Bagh.” No doubt only a person like Shah could speak this language.

We had our Republic Day this week, the day when our Constitution came into effect for the first time with a democratic governing system completing the transition towards becoming a sovereign republic. For the first time we addressed ourselves as “We the People” of a secular, socialist, democratic republic. For the first time in last two hundred years, we became an independent country with our composite culture and a pronounced sense of love and peace for the entire humankind. With the attainment of nationhood, we started building up the world’s largest democracy. On January 26, 1950, with the coming of Constitution, the path was charted out and we took our initial steps.

The first Economic Survey presented in the first year of the 2020s, the decade which has been termed as the ‘key to India’s growth’ by the President of India in the Parliament of India today, presents a very disturbing picture of the state of economy in 2019-20 where we have landed at under the leadership of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has expected this first Budget Session of the decade ‘should ensure to lay strong foundation for a bright future of the country in this new decade’.

New Delhi: Aryan Kaila of Delhi and Sri Lankan Kayla Perera extended their lead in the boys’ and girls’ category respectively at the end of the penultimate round of the US Kids Indian Championship golf tournament being played at the Classic Golf Resort near Manesar.

New Delhi: Women hockey captain Rani Rampaul on Thursday earned the distinction of being the firstt Indian athlete to win the prestigious World Games Athlete of the Year 2019 Award.

Hyderabad: North Eastern Warriors bounced back to beat the Mumbai Rockets in the second tie of the double header at the Star Sports Premier Badminton League held at the GMC Balayogi Indoor Stadium here in Hyderabad today.

Bengaluru: Bengaluru secured a narrow 1-0 win against Hyderabad to keep pace with the top spot aspirants in the Hero Indian Super League at the Kanteerava Stadium here on Thursday.

“Communicative capitalism,” writes the communist philosopher Jodi Dean, refers to a phase of knowledge- and technology-based commodity production in which information on a massive scale is produced, gathered, and sold for profit. What we now call the “information society” or “knowledge economy” sees the large-scale proletarianization of often highly-educated people in low-paying (often low-skilled) jobs, precariously scraping by to pay student loans, cover health insurance, and living paycheck to paycheck, wondering what happened to the “American Dream.”

George Fernandes was supposed to die in course of the Emergency in 1976. The orders were conveyed and the exception awaited. But an encrypted telegram had apparently landed on the wrong desk and therefore the plan had leaked out.