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It is a matter of worry that at a GHI score of 28.7 in the Global Hunger Index Report 2023, India ranks at 111 position out of the 125 countries surveyed. In comparison, our neighbours’ performance is better with Sri Lanka at the rank of 60, Nepal 69, Bangladesh 81 and Pakistan at 102. A GHI score of 9.9 or less is considered to be low, 10.0–19.9 moderate, 20.0–34.9 serious, 35.0–49.9 alarming, and 50.0 or more is extremely alarming. That we are at a serious level of hunger is a cause of real concern.

Deceleration in India’s manufacturing sector growth was the worst in the last eight months since February this year, reflecting fading of output, demand, and employment generation in the country. It is particularly ominous, since it’s a festive season and the first month of the busy second-half of the India economy when improvement is generally expected after the first-half of the lean economic season of the financial year.

There was Pegasus, now it’s Apple and if Pegasus was a winged horse, the nearly half-eaten Apple is a mobile phone by another name. The one similarity is that both come under “Snoopgate”, in other words surveillance without the target’s knowledge. And the target remains India’s Opposition, today identified as the INDIA bloc.

New Delhi: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and the mixed trap team of Manisha Keer and Prithviraj Tondaiman won gold medals as India concluded its campaign with 51 medals — 19 gold, 19 silver and 13 bronze medals, at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Wednesday.

RSS approach and discernment of the elections, particularly the Lok Sabha polls, has undergone significant paradigm shift after the Modi-led BJP government coming back to power in 2019. While the BJP win in 2014 Lok Sabha elections primarily owed to the failures of the Congress party to keep neoliberal policies of the Manmohan Singh government going and fulfil the aspirations of the urban middle class, the credit for 2019 electoral victory should be attributed to RSS’s manoeuvrings.

New Delhi: Shriyanka Sadangi scored 440.5ton finish fourth in the 50m rifle 3 positions event and that enabled her to secure 13th Olympic Quota for India at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Top golfers of the country including Rahil Gangjee, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash Chouhan and Khalin Joshi will be seen in action in the Rs 1,5 crore prize money sixth edition of the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational at the Chandigarh Golf Club from November 2 – 5, The main event will be preceded by the Pro-Am event on November 1.

Off and on, like a dormant volcano, the Maharashtra political scene is rocked by tumultuous stirs, most often triggered by farmers but also by demands for a reservation quota for the politically significant Maratha clan. The Maratha quota stir never actually died throughout its life so far, though it has failed to achieve what it set out for. The stir is now back in full swing and there is more than mischief afoot.

Decades after her life was snuffed out by bullets fired from her bodyguards' guns, Indira Gandhi's stature remains undiminished. Much water has flown under the bridge since that fateful October day and a dispensation diametrically opposed to her ideology has the reins of governance in this country where once her family members had held the same.

The news reaching Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, from the hinterland of the state do not augur well for Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief, who only a week back had dared to teach a lesson to the Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. While he already rolled out his plans to ensure Congress’ defeat in Madhya Pradesh by fielding 80 candidates in the upcoming assembly election, his anxious supporters in UP are reportedly shifting their allegiance to Congress.