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Even as battle lines are being drawn up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections all over the country, culture is poised to play a significant role in this polls in West Bengal. Though the state is no longer in the preeminent position it once occupied in the cultural field, Trinamool Congress, BJP and CPI(M) are readying their culture brigade to give them an intellectual dominance numerical superiority over their political rivals.

Congress Party's responsibilities have increased with the decision of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc Opposition coalition to name Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the President. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has declined the post of convenor.

India is facing rising industrial concentration in just five hands, and is enriching billionaires, private equity funds, and crony capitalists driving unprecedented level of inequalities and poverty among people. Dalits are facing high and unaffordable out-of-pocket fees in the private healthcare sector, financial exclusion in the private healthcare sector, and overt discrimination in both.

BSP chief Mayawati continues to be an enigma. Till Monday morning, she was sending out signal to the leaders of INDIA bloc, especially to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, that she was ready to ride the bandwagon of INDIA. But by noon she made a volte-face and shocked the opposition leaders by saying that her party would go it alone in elections.

Rahul Gandhi’s 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' is going ahead with its goal to bring peace to all the places through which it passes. Also fight for justice to people of all colour, creed and caste. It started in the violence-hit Manipur where both the Kuki and Meitei communities believed Rahul Gandhi had the potential and promise to unify. At least that is what Congress general-secretary K C Venugopal, who shadows Rahul Gandhi like the sun the earth, voiced at the end of ‘Day 1’ of the 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', which set out on its 67-day long journey on January 14.

New Delhi: Reigning Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen and Asian Games bronze medallist HS Prannoy on Monday admitted that points earned in the Super 750 status of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open in the tournament will play a crucial role in the Paris Olympics qualification.

Ranchi: Pumped up by their impressive 3-1 win over New Zealand, India is eyeing a big win as they take on lowly Italy in their last league match of the Olympic Hockey Qualifiers here on Tuesday.

In October last year at the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, Narendra Modi had projected India under his rule as a rising diplomatic powerhouse and elicited sycophantic commentary on its growing confidence. While boasting of his image of a ‘Vishwa Guru’, Modi often ignores the bare fact that goodwill cannot be built on the basis of solely providing investments and security support. He also conveniently forgot that for the last five years, India’s South Asian neighbours have largely felt wide resentment and “quit India” had been the major political issue in Maldives.

Uncertainty in Global labour market is likely to continue while unemployment is set to rise in 2024. Growing inequality and stagnant productivity will also be cause of concern on the economic front, especially at a time when the global economy is on track for the slowest half-decade of growth in 30 years.

Milind Deora s/o Murli Deora on Sunday joined the Shiv Sena of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the first casualty of seat-sharing in Maharashtra thanks to the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena which laid claim to the Mumbai South parliamentary constituency from which Milind Deora used to represent the Congress in Parliament before the Modi onslaught in 2014.