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Cash-strapped Kerala scored a significant legal-political victory when the Supreme Court directed the Union Government to allow the State additional market borrowing to the tune of Rs 13,608 crore. The apex court’s ruling has come as a big relief for Kerala, which has been struggling to meet its financial commitments, including payment of salaries and pensions. To the acute embarrassment of the Union Government, the SC also came down heavily on the Centre’s insistence that Kerala withdraw the case before the Centre released the funds, which are the State’s legitimate dues.

Ahmedabad: Mohd Azhar of Vikarabad built a two-shot lead at a total score of nine-under 135 after he struck a steady two-under 70 in the third round of the Rs One crore Gujarat Open Golf Championship here today.

New Delhi: Nishant Dev continued his dominant show as he thrashed Georgia’s Madiev Eskerkhan 5-0 to enter the 71kg pre-quarterfinals of the World Olympic Boxing Qualifier in Busto Arsizio, Italy.

New Delhi: Though India is placed in tough pool B in the Paris Olympics Hockey (men) competition along with world and former Olympic champions, Captain and ace drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh, feels that his players are capable enough to beat any team in the world provided they utilize their potential, saying, “by harnessing our full potential, we can beat anyone.”

In early March, the price of Kinnow fruit at Gaddiannaram fruit market, Hyderabad is Rs 40 a Kilogram. While oranges and apples are increasingly dumped in to Indian markets from California or New Zealand, small farmers in Punjab are distressed for not receiving even half the cost of production. Today, WTO has become a major barrier for both crop MSPs and Public Stock Holding (cheap ration under PDS).This is the outcome of India’s entry in to WTO nearly three decades back. After nearly three decades of WTO, our farmers are in distress and over 10,000 died by suicide in 2019 alone (Down to Earth, 2020). That’s why agitating farmers are demanding India to quit WTO.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have agreed in principle for an alliance on the eve of Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha election 2024 in Andhra Pradesh. Both the BJP and the TDP are in urgent need to ally to protect their political interests at the national and state level respectively, and hence there is every possibility of their proposed alliance becoming a reality.

Just 13 months back, precisely on February 10, 2023, Narendra Modi had made an audacious boast on the floor of Rajya Sabha “ek akela sab par bhari” (he alone was overpowering for all). He had even said "one person is proving too much for so many". He is so confident of his abilities, dexterity and political power that he was heard offering “Modi’s guarantee” to the common people.

“You bear the seed, flower and fruit…You who never cease to Repair life…”

The Supreme Court of India had struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional and manifestly arbitrary. That the Modi government would find this verdict unpalatable is not surprising, given the fact that the electoral bonds scheme was devised by it to legitimise political corruption.

Narendra Modi was absolutely right in saying that the Sandeshkhali “storm” would sweep across Bengal and ensure an end to the Trinamool Congress’s “rule of terror”. His confidence emanates from the apparition of the RSS polarising the Bengali society attaining a tangible shape.