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New Delhi: Antim Panghal has been named the women’s Rising Star of the Year by United World Wrestling (UWW), the world governing body of the sport.

New Delhi: India's hope of making it to the final went up in smoke as they muffed chances galore and lost 1-4 to favourite Germany in the semi-finals of the Junior Hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

The Supreme Court judgment on the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories is an egregious example of the constitutional court capitulating to the misuse of powers by the executive. Four years after the event, the three concurrent judgments of the five-member constitution bench, headed by the chief justice of India, have larger and long-lasting implications that strike at the roots of federalism and states’ rights.

This is the second time in two decades that the security of Parliament has been breached. Nevertheless, the two incidents are distinctly different from each other in nature and probably in intention. The first was planned by terrorists “to wipe out the entire political leadership of India,” to quote the then home minister L K Advani. In that attack at least eleven persons had lost their lives.

The way PM Narendra Modi’s growth narrative is being boastfully brought forward is nothing but mere politics, since it tries to put the stark reality of incidents of hunger and malnutrition in the country under carpet. As per the growth narrative India is the fourth biggest economy of the world, growing at the fastest rate, and aiming at making the country a developed nation by 2047 under PM Modi’s leadership, but the new report released by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed that India still houses most of the hungry and malnourished people of the world, and hundreds of millions are either moderately or severely food insecure.

According to available data, there has been a steady decline in the availability of employment in agriculture and manufacturing. Growth of construction jobs have also been slow. The process of structural transformation, which had gained momentum post 2004-5, has almost stopped since 2016. There has been a spread of gloom especially among the educated youth since there is stagnation in hiring trend especially in sectors of hospitality. New job opportunities in AI sector and related fields have been mounting though at a relatively slower rate. Even after spending so much time and resources on getting specialized education, there is constant lack of quality non-farm jobs. This reality has shadowed up all hopes among the already disheartened labour force.

Neelam ‘Azad’ is 42 and a student forever. Armed with a string of educational qualifications, Neelam couldn’t land a job and may not ever land one now that a case under UAPA has been lodged against her and the five others who planned and carried out the attack on Parliament on the 22nd anniversary of the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack on December 13, 2023.

New Delhi: Buoyed by stunning win against the Netherlands in the Quarter-Final, two-time champion India is all geared up to take on formidable Germans in the Semi-Final of the Hockey Junior World Cup on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The impressive gains in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan could not blind the BJP leadership to the fact of its declining share of votes in all the states in November 2023 elections compared to Lok Sabha Election 2019, and hence it was compelled to bring new faces as Chief Ministers as a preventive measure to put a brake on its falling vote share and thereby its ultimate fall in the Lok Sabha Election 2024, when the BJP and PM Narendra Modi would be seeking for their third term. The Choice of CMs has never been aimed at gain in these states, since there is technically and otherwise no question of gain in terms of Lok Sabha seats in these states, or even elsewhere on account of caste or ST politics since the new CMs are just local leaders without any pan-India influence.

All indications available from the Congress and Trinamool Congress sources on the eve of the INDIA constituents meeting in New Delhi on December 19 suggest that the Congress high command is itching to form an electoral alliance with the Trinamool Congress in Bengal for fighting the BJP jointly in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.