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KOLKATA: Tripura’s most prominent TIPRA Motha leader Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarman (ex-royal scion) and Chakma student outfits are in limelight following their successful protests to highlight atrocities against minorities and indigenous people in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh. The interesting part is that Debbarman himself leads from the front but he assigns the responsibility for organising solidarity rallies and other formats of agitation to Youth Tipra Federation (YTF) – TIPRA Motha’s young wing.

To strengthen India’s energy security and realise self-reliance under “Atmanirbhar Bharat” programme by replacing imported coal with domestically mined coal, India will increase its production from the provisional 997.25 million tonne (MT) in FY24 to 1.31BT in FY25 and 1.5BT inFY30.It has been planned to sustain rapidly expanding economy of the country and its ever rising energy requirement, though it has also committed itself to net-zero emission level by 2070.

In a move that has surprised corporate watchers, State Bank of India (SBI) will take a dual role in the debt restructuring of defaulter Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd (SIIL). This development marks an unprecedented step in India’s corporate debt resolution landscape, as the country’s largest public sector bank transitions from being SIIL’s primary creditor to becoming an equity stakeholder.

Does Congress general secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal know Himachal Pradesh more than Himachal Pradesh cabinet minister Vikramaditya Singh? For that matter, does Raebareli’s Congress MP Rahul Gandhi? Venugopal is Rahul Gandhi’s eyes and ears within the Congress framework but it would be naïve to believe he or Rahul Gandhi would have a better grasp of Himachal Pradesh matters than son-of-the-soil Vikramaditya Singh, who is Himachal Pradesh’s PWD minister and knows what the Wakf can do to landholding patterns in Himachal Pradesh if Muslims get to settle in big numbers in the hill-state.

After unemployment rate in India officially reaching 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, which was 45 years high, PM Narendra Modi led government has been successful in reducing it to 3.2 per cent on paper by 2023-24 which wraps up increasingly disturbing level of labour market distortion in the country.

Everything about the Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde's encounter-killing is confusing except the reality that Akshay sexually assaulted two kindergarten kids in the school where he worked as a sweeper. Now, after he was killed in an encounter inside a moving police/prison van, there are questions about how could Akshay Shinde be killed in the closed confines of a moving van?

People on both sides of the Indo-Pakistan border have lot in common likings including sporting events in which players of the two countries pit their playing skills against each other together with tucking into a plate of fragrant basmati rice. Giving a leg up to Basmati rice produced in India, it's Minimum Export Price (MEP) has recently been removed.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Left Democratic Front (LDF)-backed Independent MLA P V Anvar seems to have lost his balance and sense of proportion.

Election campaigns for all participating political parties in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Vidhan Sabha election has unquestionably centred round the chief issue – restoration of the abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India and the lost statehood of this Union Territory. The electoral battle has been turning into a struggle for re-establishing political relevance in Jammu and Kashmir for two national parties – BJP and Congress, two regional parties National Conference (NC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and a new entrant Engineer Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) that vowed to defeat BJP’s ‘New Kashmir’ Agenda. Among them there are large number of allegedly proxy candidates of the BJP, and independents supported by Jamaat-e-Islami.

BJP's Mandi MP, actor Kangana Ranaut, is a raw nerve in the BJP's thick skin and a bundle of apprehension for party president JP Nadda, who cannot seem to decide whether she is in-disciplinable or indispensable? Is Kangana Ranaut a "Congressi" at heart? For, she sounds like she is batting for the Congress with statements that the BJP cannot defend, comments that are harmful to the party and its top brass.