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Senior allies of Boris Johnson have warned him of the threat of civil unrest on a major scale if he failed to deliver Brexit. This warning from the MPs came on Friday just after Johnson tried to incite hatred towards MPs.

It would be hard to spot even one person who hasn’t had a bad experience with an ATM transaction, payment at a point of sale (PoS) machine or an online payment. It often happens while withdrawing cash from an ATM that the message from the bank arrives on the phone that the money has been deducted from the account, but no cash comes out of the ATM.

After the abysmal performance in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, the bye-election results, particularly, Pala constituency of Kerala provide a big relief to the Left. The Pala constituency, which has been a Kerala Congress (Mani) stronghold electing late party founder KM Mani for the last 54 years, will now be represented by NCP's Mani C Kappan of the Left Democratic Front. On the other hand, although CPI(M) failed to wrest the Badharghat seat of Tripura from the BJP, it, however, managed to emerge once again as the main opposition party in the state — pushing the Congress to the third position. No doubt, these results have their own significance in the politics of Kerala and Tripura.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: September 27 is a Red Letter Day in the annals of left politics in Kerala. The day saw the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front(LDF) score a historic victory in the Pala assembly by-election.

Believe it or not, Congress has improved its position in election-bound Haryana and Maharashtra. Giving reigns of the party to Shelja and Bhupendra Singh Hooda, the Congress has consolidated its position electorally in Haryana. In Maharashtra, the Congress-NCP alliance poses a challenge to BJP-Shiv Sena. In what looks political vendetta, the Enforcement Directorate has registered a case of money-laundering against NCP chief Sharad Pawar on the eve of elections. If there is a case against NCP supremo, why the ED waited for so many months? Why it remembered the alleged case when elections are so near? Evidently, the BJP wants to tarnish Pawar’s image to get his votes. Will this move succeed? Perhaps not, because electorate has become too mature to see through the game.

The surprising festive bonanza doled out by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to India Inc has already created widespread enthusiasm in Indian industry. The grappling business sectors are terming it as much-needed oxygen amidst slowdown, with a hope that they will sail through the low tide of Indian market seeing declining domestic demands. But one of the most positive impacts of the tax cut is that it boosts India’s prospects to become a major player in the global supply chain, provided other issues of Ease of Doing Business can be managed effectively. A tax reduction from for any new manufacturing entity which will commence production by 2023 has slashed more than 12 per cent with effective tax rate 17.01 per cent with no Minimum Alternative Tax (MAT).

Within two months, Asian Development Bank has to make a downward revision to its economic forecast for India for the current financial year by about 0.5 per cent. Asian Development Outlook 2019 update sees some silver lining on the horizon, but did not forget to mention the downside risks on the ground, indicating the sailing Indian economy through the troubled waters to remain tough.

The key to creating fundamental change is to create a movement broad enough, diverse enough, powerful enough, and sophisticated enough to embrace billions of people the world over.

The nuclear powers have conducted more than 2,000 nuclear test explosions. Out of this 1054 have been done by the United States of America. The last US nuclear weapons test took place 26 years ago on Sept. 23, 1992, at the Nevada Test Site. It was the 1,030th such experiment, the most conducted by any country since the first US atom bomb was exploded in 1945. Tim Fernholz in an article dated 23rd September 2018 points out that ‘the unintended consequences of testing are still being felt today: Fallout from the Nevada experiments was likely responsible for the deaths of as many as 690,000 American civilians, according to new research into the radioactive contamination’.

Just a fortnight ahead of culmination of highly acclaimed Swachh Bharat Abhiyan of prime minister launched on 2 October 2014 on Gandhi Jayanti, to eradicate open defecation by 2 October 2019, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, two Dalit children were lynched by the protagonists of the scheme, the vigilantes, for defecating in public.